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 Illustrations
Introduction
Kristín Loftsdóttir, Andrea L. Smith, and Brigitte Hipfl
Chapter 1. Wise Viking Daughters: Equality and Whiteness in Economic Crisis
Kristín Loftsdóttir and Helga Björnsdóttir
Chapter 2. "Latvians do not understand the Greek people": Europeanness and Complicit Becoming in the Midst of Financial Crisis
Dace Dzenovska
Chapter 3. Fairness and Entitlement in Neoliberal England, 2005-2015
Steve Garner
Chapter 4. Debating Refugee Deservingness in Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland
Shay Cannedy
Chapter 5. What is a Life? On Poverty and Race in Humanitarian Italy
Andrea Muehlebach
Chapter 6. Policing Crisis in Austrian Crime Fiction
Brigitte Hipfl
Chapter 7. Crisis France: Covert Racialization and the Gens du Voyage
Andrea L. Smith
Chapter 8. Navigating the Mediterranean Refugee "Crisis": Alter-Globalization Activism and the Sediments of History on Lampedusa
Antonio Sorge
Epilogue: Declining Europe
Thomas Hylland Eriksen
Index
