Messy Europe crisis, race, and nation-state in a postcolonial world

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...

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Main Authors: Loftsdóttir, Kristín, Smith, Andrea L, Hipfl, Brigitte
Format: eBook Book
Language:English
Published: New York Berghahn Books 2018
Berghahn
Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Edition:1st ed.
Series:EASA Series
Subjects:
Anthropology
Anthropology (General)
Crisis management > Europe
Europe > Race relations
Financial crises > Europe
Group identity > Europe > History
Human Geography
Nationalism > Europe
Political and Economic Anthropology
POLITICAL SCIENCE
POLITICAL SCIENCE / General
Racism > Europe
Refugee and Migration Studies
Sexism > Europe
SOCIAL SCIENCE
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
Sociology
Refugee and Migration Studies
Anthropology (General)
Political and Economic Anthropology
Sociology
ISBN:9781785337963, 1785337971, 9781785337970, 1785337963
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Table of Contents:
  • Messy Europe -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Wise Viking Daughters -- Chapter 2. "Latvians do not understand the Greek people" -- Chapter 3. Fairness and Entitlement in Neoliberal England, 2005-2015 -- Chapter 4. Debating Refugee Deservingness in Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland -- Chapter 5. What Is a Life? -- Chapter 6. Policing Crisis in Austrian Crime Fiction -- Chapter 7. Crisis France -- Chapter 8. Navigating the Mediterranean Refugee "Crisis" -- Epilogue. Declining Europe -- Index
  • Shay Cannedy --
  • Antonio Sorge --
  • 1 Wise Viking Daughters: Equality and Whiteness in Economic Crisis
  • Contents --
  • 7. Crisis France: Covert Racialization and the Gens du Voyage
  • Dace Dzenovska --
  • 9 Epilogue: Declining Europe
  • 3. Fairness and Entitlement in Neoliberal England, 2005–2015
  • Index
  • 2 “Latvians do not understand the Greek people”: Europeanness and Complicit Becoming in the Midst of Financial Crisis
  • Andrea Muehlebach --
  • Andrea L. Smith --
  • Thomas Hylland Eriksen --
  • Brigitte Hipfl --
  • Kristín Loftsdóttir, Andrea L. Smith, Brigitte Hipfl --
  • List of Illustrations --
  • Introduction
  • Kristín Loftsdóttir, Helga Björnsdóttir --
  • Frontmatter --
  • 8. Navigating the Mediterranean Refugee “Crisis”: Alter-Globalization Activism and the Sediments of History on Lampedusa
  • 4. Debating Refugee Deservingness in Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland
  • 5. What Is a Life? On Poverty and Race in Humanitarian Italy
  • Steve Garner --
  • 6. Policing Crisis in Austrian Crime Fiction