Messy Europe (eBook)

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.

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).

Kristín Loftsdóttir is a Professor at the University of Iceland. She directs the research project “(Icelandic) Identity in Crisis,” and is an organizer of the Project of Excellence “Icelandic mobility and Transnationalism.” Her research interests include postcolonial Europe, gender, migration and racism. She is the co-editor of Crisis in the Nordic Nations and Beyond (2014) with Lars Jensen.

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Introduction
Kristín Loftsdóttir, Andrea L. Smith, and Brigitte Hipfl

Chapter 1. Wise Viking Daughters: Equality and Whiteness in Economic Crisis
Kristín Loftsdóttir and Helga Björnsdóttir

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