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OverviewUsing 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Kristin Loftsdottir , Andrea L. Smith , Brigitte HipflPublisher: Berghahn Books Imprint: Berghahn Books ISBN: 9781800732070ISBN 10: 1800732074 Pages: 254 Publication Date: 15 October 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction Kristin Loftsdottir, Andrea L. Smith, and Brigitte Hipfl Chapter 1. Wise Viking Daughters: Equality and Whiteness in Economic Crisis Kristin Loftsdottir and Helga Bjoernsdottir 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 IndexReviewsThe 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. * Anthropos 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. * Anthropological Forum 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. * Social Anthropology An impressive study on a very timely topic. * Jeremy MacClancey, Oxford Brookes University 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. * Peter Hervik, Aalborg University Author InformationKristin Loftsdottir 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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