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.

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.

Der Band bietet einen systematischen Überblick über die Grundlagen, Theorien und empirischen Befunde der feministischen Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft. Die Beiträge behandeln die Entwicklungen und den aktuellen Stand der gesamten Breite der kommunikationswissenschaftlichen Geschlechterforschung: Informations- und Unterhaltungsangebote der Medien, Fernseh- und Filmgenres, Social Media, Journalismus, Werbung, Öffentlichkeitsarbeit, Medienpolitik, Medienpädagogik, Medienpsychologie und Medienethik aus Geschlechterperspektive werden ebenso systematisch dargestellt wie die Themen der Frauenbewegung, Gewalt, Körper- und Sexualitätsdiskurse in Medien.

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.

This collection of essays responds to the need to approach questions of race and racism from a feminist perspective, focusing on the intersections of race, class and gender. Only a thorough exploration of these intersections can open up a deeper understanding of racism against particular groups that have emerged in the European historical context and point to ways of intervening in the racial practices of the present.

The chapters in the book are structured into two parts: the first section focuses on particular themes like representation of race and gender inequality, as well as everyday racism in educational institutions, whereas in the second section, the intersections of race and gender are explored in national contexts.

Das Verhaltnis von Medienpadagogik und Politik ist in den letzten Jahren nur noch wenig thematisiert worden. Dieser Band belegt die Aktualitat dieser Fragestellung und stellt den Stand der Diskussion dar. Theoretisch wird nach Hypothesen zum Zusammenhang politischer, medialer und padagogischer Logiken gefragt. Vor diesem Hintergrund wird die Aufgabe der Medienpadagogik angesichts der Verflechtung von Politik und Medien neu definiert - dies unter Einbezug der Moeglichkeiten und Chancen der Herstellung alternativer OEffentlichkeiten uber traditionelle Medien und uber die neuen Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien.