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<em>“The book is certainly an original contribution to studies of race and racialization. Through the comprehensive analysis of how crisis is entangled in political discourses, rhetoric, and affective experiences of everyday life authors convincingly illustrate what crisis does to contemporary formations of racialization, nationalisms, and national identities.”</em> <strong>• Anthropos</strong></p>
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<em>“This is a praiseworthy publication. Based on ethnographically rich case studies it provides several snapshots that reach deep down into the heart of the constitution of European societies. They show the diversity and complexity of issues related to identity, social inclusion and exclusion, democratic ideals, the welfare state, mobility and security, cultural fears and certainty, hegemony and legitimacy.”</em> <strong>• Anthropological Forum</strong></p>
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<em>“The book makes a novel contribution to scholarship on post-integration European identity politics and is crucial reading for scholars interested in crisis and crisis narratives, the anthropology of the state, migration and border politics, and everyday racisms.”</em> <strong>• Social Anthropology</strong></p>
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<em>“An impressive study on a very timely topic.”</em> <strong>• Jeremy MacClancey</strong>, Oxford Brookes University</p>
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<em>“The contribution to research-based understandings of "crisis talk", "being in a state of crisis", the growing tension between legal and moral obligations, and the intersection of economics and morality is intriguing, critical, urgent, and comes precisely at the right historical conjuncture. The volume is a welcome and thoughtful effort to disentangle what is going on.”</em> <strong>• Peter Hervik</strong>, Aalborg University</p>

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.

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Messy Europe links theoretical insights to current discussions of crisis – economic and otherwise – showing how these shape the creation of subjectivities and identities. The chapters theorize “Europe” as a contested and fluid construction, and, by focusing on particular case studies, analyze how specific understandings of self and others occur in the crisis context.

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List of Illustrations

Introduction
KristĂ­n LoftsdĂłttir, Andrea L. Smith, and Brigitte Hipfl

Chapter 1. Wise Viking Daughters: Equality and Whiteness in Economic Crisis
KristĂ­n LoftsdĂłttir and Helga BjĂśrnsdĂłttir

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

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Andrea L. Smith is Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Lafayette College, Pennsylvania. Her interests include postcolonial European social memory, French settler colonialism in Algeria, and race, ethnicity, and place-making. Her publications include the edited volume, Europe’s Invisible Migrants (2003), and the co-authored book, Rebuilding Shattered Worlds: Creating Community by Voicing the Past (2016).
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781785337963
Publisert
2018-02-19
Utgiver
Berghahn Books
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
AldersnivĂĽ
RES, P, 06
SprĂĽk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
254

Biografisk notat

Kristín Loftsdóttir is a Professor at the University of Iceland. She directs the research project “Creating Europe Through Racialized Mobilities” Her research interests include crisis, whiteness, postcolonial Europe, gender, mobility and racism. Her publications include Crisis and Coloniality at Europe’s Margins: Creating Exotic Iceland (2019) and the co-edited Crisis in the Nordic Nations and Beyond (2014) with Lars Jensen.