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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 feelings and shapes bodies, boundaries and
communities.
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 feelings and shapes bodies, boundaries and
communities.
" I]ntersects with very active areas of research in history and
anthropology, and links these domains of inquiry spanning Europe
and North Africa in a creative and innovative fashion." Douglas
Holmes, Binghamton University
Maltese settlers in colonial Algeria had never lived in France,
but as French citizens were abruptly "repatriated" there after
Algerian independence in 1962. In France today, these pieds-noirs
are often associated with "Mediterranean" qualities, the persisting
tensions surrounding the French-Algerian War, and far-right,
anti-immigrant politics. Through their social clubs, they have
forged an identity in which Malta, not Algeria, is the unifying
ancestral homeland. Andrea L. Smith uses history and ethnography to
argue that scholars have failed to account for the effect of
colonialism on Europe itself. She explores nostalgia and collective
memory; the settlers liminal position in the colony as subalterns
and colonists; and selective forgetting, in which Malta replaces
Algeria, the "true" homeland, which is now inaccessible, fraught
with guilt and contradiction. The study provides insight into race,
ethnicity, and nationalism in Europe as well as cultural context
for understanding political trends in contemporary France."
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