This edited volume explores the idea of Europe through a focus on
its margins. The chapters in the volume inquire critically into the
relations and tensions inherent in divisions between the Global
North and the Global South as well as internal regional
differentiation within Europe itself. In doing so, the volume
stresses the need to consider Europe from critical
interdisciplinary perspectives, highlighting historical and
contemporary issues of racism and colonialism. 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, the Caribbean diaspora in Europe,
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 interest to those in the humanities and social
sciences with an interest in Europe. Chapter 11 of this book is
freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF 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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