
Creating Europe from the Margins
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While recent discussions of migration into 'Fortress Europe' seem to assume that Europe has clearly demarcated geographic, political and cultural boundaries, this book argues that the reality is more complex. The book explores margins conceptually and positions margins and centres as open to negotiation and contestation and characterized by ambiguity. As such, margins can be contextualized in relation to hierarchies within Europe, with different processes involved in creating boundaries and borders between different kinds of Europes and Europeans. Deploying case studies from different places, such as Iceland, Italy, Poland, Spain, Turkey, the UK, Romania, Cyprus, Greece, Sicily, European colonies in the Caribbean and the former Yugoslavia, the contributors analyse how different geopolitical hierarchies intersect with racialized subject positions of diverse people living in Europe, while also exploring issues of gender, class, sexuality, religion and nationality. Some chapters draw attention to the fortification of Europe's 'borderland,' while others focus on internal hierarchies within Europe, critiquing the meaning of spatial boundaries in an increasingly digitalized Europe. In doing so, the chapters interrogate the hierarchies at play in the processes of being and becoming 'European' and the ongoing impacts of race and colonialism.
This timely and thought-provoking collection will be of considerable significance to those in the humanities and social sciences with an interest in Europe.
Chapters 1, 11 and 12 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.
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Brigitte Hipfl is Associate Professor Emerita in the Department of Media and Communication Studies at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. Her research explores media, gender, race, and the affective dynamics of media with a focus on issues related to migration, conviviality, solidarity, and memory work. She is co-editor of Messy Europe: Crisis, Race and the Nation State in a Postcolonial World (2018), Wir und die Anderen: Visuelle Kultur zwischen Aneignung und Ausgrenzung (2020), Handbuch Medien und Geschlecht: Perspektiven und Befunde der feministischen Kommunikations- und Medienforschung (2023), and Intersektionale Solidaritaeten: Beitraege zur gesellschaftskritischen Geschlechterforschung (2023).
Sandra Ponzanesi is Chair and Professor of Media, Gender and Postcolonial Studies in the Department of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University, Netherlands, where she is also the founding director of the PCI (Postcolonial Studies Initiative). She has published widely in the field of media, postcolonial studies, digital migration, and cinema, with a particular focus on Postcolonial Europe from comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives. She is author of Paradoxes of Postcolonial Culture: Contemporary Women Writers of the Indian and Afro-Italian Diaspora (2004) and The Postcolonial Cultural Industry: Icons, Markets, Mythologies (2014). She is also editor of Gender, Globalization, and Violence: Postcolonial Conflict Zones (Routledge, 2016) and co-editor of numerous other edited collections, including Postcolonial Transitions in Europe (Rowman and Littlefield 2016), Postcolonial Cinema Studies (Routledge, 2012) and Deconstructing Europe: Postcolonial Perspectives (Routledge, 2012). She has also edited several special issues on digital migration, cinema, and Europe for a range of peer-reviewed journals.
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