Full Description
The Routledge Handbook of Peripheries in European Studies critically and systematically explores peripheries - in their various notions, definitions and possibilities - within the European sphere.
Variously considered, peripheries reveal common asymmetries and constraints, shed light on combinations and intersections of well-established distinctions and structures, and yet also offer places of resilience, creativity, and innovation to challenge the status quo. As such, peripheries offer revealing perspectives to understand the changing spatial, political, and cultural landscapes of Europe as well as a crucial object of study in their own right, giving weight to persons, processes, and places who seem not to matter, yet demand a reconsideration of the history and politics of Europe. Using case studies and organized around the exploration of four types of peripheries - geographic, structural, socio-political, and epistemic - this multi- and interdisciplinary handbook shows Europe constructed, deconstructed, and reconstructed through the very processes of peripheralization and centralization that it explores.
The Routledge Handbook of Peripheries in European Studies is a key reference for scholars and students of European studies and culture, European politics as well as to the broader social sciences, humanities and law.
Contents
Introduction - Seeing like a Periphery: Europe from the Periphery, Periphery as Method Section 1. Conceptualizing Peripheries in a European Context 1. Reimagining Europe 2. Peripheralization and the Law: Notes on Fraught Dynamics 3. Center and Periphery in Migration Studies 4. From Europe's Margins to Global Britain: The (failed) Project of the UK's Post-Brexit Identity 5. Stigma and Exclusion in French Urban Peripheries 6. On the Periphery of Society: The Social Exclusion of East Germany 7. Thriving at the Edge: Rewriting the Urban Creativity Canon from the Margins Section 2. Types of Peripheries in Europe 8. A Typology of Peripheries Section 2.1. Geographic Peripheries 9. Locating Europe's Geographic Peripheries 10. A Multiple Geographies Perspective to Peripheralization: Multiplicity and Multi-Scalarity in the Making of Peripheries 11. Literary Depictions of Francophone Postcolonial Peripheries on the Brink: Island Uprisings 12. European Integration as a Process of Deperipheralization: The Periphery as Centre and Centre as Periphery 13. Mediterranean Islands as Sites of Peripheral Reasoning: Thinking with interfaces 14. The European Union, the Balkans and the Multipolar Core-Periphery Dynamics Section 2.2. Structural Peripheries 15. Introducing Structural Peripheries in the European Union 16. Peripheral Regions in Europe: Definitions, Typologies, and Directions 17. From Production to Consumption in the Assembled Countryside: Colonialisms, Mobilities, and Peripheralization 18. A Structural Periphery in Slovakia: Identity, Resilience, and Historical Memory in Partizánska Ľupča Section 2.3. Sociopolitical Peripheries 19. Introducing Sociopolitical Peripheries: Power, Relationality, and Transformation in the Margins of Europe 20. Democratic Resistance at Europe's "Holy Mile": Notes from the Neapolitan Underground 21. Peripheralization and centralization in the city: A case study of gentrification, criminalization, and policing in south London 22. Weaponized Migrants at the Peripheries: Promise and Peril on the 'Eastern Borders Route' to Europe 23. Disrupting Core-Periphery Dynamics: Diasporic Spheres of Influence in International Relations Section 2.4. Epistemic Peripheries 24. Introducing Epistemic Peripheries: Decolonizing Time, Space and Narratives 25. Playing with Time, Temporality, and Periodization: Challenges and Opportunities in Narrating the History of Peripheries 26. From Peripheral Vision to Peripheral Time: Survival in the Aftermath of the Armenian Genocide 27. From the Metropolitan Peripheries to the Center: Luigi Zampa's Angelina in the Global Marketplace 28. Alexander Pushkin's Black Ancestry in the Age of Russian Empire Section 3: Peripheries Research in Europe: Methodological Challenges and Moral Concerns 29. Peripheral Vision as a Method for Anthropological Knowledge Production: Historical and Contemporary Ethnographic Approaches to Europe 30. Core and Periphery in the EU Legal Space 31. European Foreign Policy and Tuning into the Voices from the Peripheries 32. The Peripheral World of the Hedgeland: Explorations in Fiction 33. Europe's Missionary Peripheries: Established, Instrumentalized, and Dynamic Conclusion - Unlearning from the Peripheries: Some Conclusions
