Kristín (Hrsg.) Loftsdóttir

Messy Europe

Crisis, Race, and Nation-State in a Postcolonial World

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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 f… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Smith, Andrea L. (Hrsg.) / Hipfl, Brigitte (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-78533-797-0
EAN: 9781785337970
Produktnummer: 23785165
Verlag: Berghahn Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 254 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 2'807 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage
Reihenbandnummer: 32

Über den Autor

Brigitte Hipfl is Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Communication Studies at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. She works on media and gender, subject formations, the affective labor of media, and postcolonial Europe, and is currently exploring migration in Austrian cinema and TV. Her publications include Teaching Race with a Gendered Edge (2012) co-edited with Kristín Loftsdóttir.