Full Description
Using the economic crisis as a starting point, Messy Europe offers a critical new look at the issues of race, gender, and national understandings of self and other in contemporary Europe. It highlights and challenges historical associations of Europe with whiteness and modern civilization, and asks how these associations are re-envisioned, re-inscribed, or contested in an era characterized by crises of different kinds. This important collection provides a nuanced exploration of how racialized identities in various European regions are played out in the crisis context, and asks what work "crisis talk" does, considering how it motivates public feelings and shapes bodies, boundaries and communities.
Contents
List of FiguresIntroduction: Messy Europe: Crisis, Race and Nation-State in a Postcolonial WorldKristin Loftsdottir, Andrea Smith and Brigitte HipflChapter 1. Wise Viking Daughters: Equality and Whiteness in Economic CrisisKristin Loftsdottir and Helga BjornsdottirChapter 2. "Latvians do not understand the Greek people": Crisis, Endurance, and EuropeannessDace DzenovskaChapter 3. Fairness and Entitlement in Neoliberal England, 2005-2015Steve GarnerChapter 4. Debating Refugee Deservingness in Post-Celtic Tiger IrelandShay CannedyChapter 5. What is a life? On Poverty and Race in Humanitarian ItalyAndrea MuehlebachChapter 6. Policing Crisis in Austrian Crime FictionBrigitte HipflChapter 7. Crisis France: Covert Racialization and the Gens du VoyageAndrea L. SmithChapter 8. Navigating the Mediterranean Refugee "Crisis": Alter-Globalization Activism and the Sediments of History on LampedusaAntonio SorgeEpilogue: Declining Europe Thomas Hylland Eriksen BibliographyIndex
