Racism Postcolonialism Europe
By: Huggan, Graham (Edited by), Law, Ian (Edited by).
Liverpool University Press. Published: 01/10/2009. Audience Guide: Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly.
Hardback. Sourced from U.S.A.
This is the first book to turn the postcolonial gaze back onto Europe. It contextualizes racism in Europe through a postcolonial 'prism'. It includes contributions from leading International scholars including Philomena Essed, arguably the leading scholar in this area. "Racism Postcolonialism Europe" turns the postcolonial critical gaze that had previously been most likely to train itself on regions other than Europe, and sometimes those perceived to be most culturally or geographically distant from Europe, back on Europe itself. The book argues that racism is alive and dangerously well in Europe, and examines this racism through the lens of postcolonial criticism. Postcolonial racism can be a racism of reaction, based on the perceived threat to traditional social and cultural identities; or a racism of (false) respect, based on mainstream liberals' desire to hold at arm's length 'different' cultures they are anxious not to offend.
Most of all, postcolonial racism, at least within the contemporary European context, is a racism of surveillance, whereby 'foreigners' become 'aliens', 'protection' disguises 'preference', and 'cultural difference' slides into 'racial stigmatization' - all in the interests of representing the European people, which is a very different entity to the European population as a whole. Boasting a broad multidisciplinary approach and a range of distinguished contributors - including Philomena Essed, Michel Wieviorka and Griselda Pollock - "Racism Postcolonialism Europe" will be required reading for scholars and students of race, postcolonial studies, sociology, European history and literary and cultural studies. Item Details
ISBN10/13: 1846312191/9781846312199
TITLE: Racism Postcolonialism Europe
CONTRIBUTORS: Huggan, Graham (Edited by), Law, Ian (Edited by)
IMPRINT: Liverpool University Press
PUBLISHER: Liverpool University Press
FORMAT: Hardback
PUBLICATION DATE: 01/10/2009
SUBJECT: Politics, Society, Independence & Colonisation, Ethnic
DIMENSIONS (Width x Height): 156mm x 234mm
PAGES: 256
AUDIENCE GUIDE: Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
CONTENTS: Introduction; Graham Huggan; Part I: Concentrationary Legacies; Concentrationary legacies: thinking through the racism of minor differences; Griselda Pollock; Xenophobia, anti-semitism and feminist activism in eastern europe: the case study of Romania; Elisabeta Zelinka; Racism, (neo-)colonialism, and social justice: the struggle for the soul of the Romani movement in post-socialist Europe; Nidhi Trehan and Angela Kocze; Part II: Racisms of Migration; 'A soft touch': racism and asylum seekers from a visual culture perspective Alex Rotas; Migration, racism and postcolonial studies in Spain; Landry-Wilfrid Miampika & Maya Garcia Vinuesa; The 'Sick Man' beyond Europe: the Orientalisation of Turkey and Turkish immigrants in EU accession discourses in Germany; Christoph Ramm; Part III: Multiculturalism and its Discontents; Postcolonial racism: white paranoia and the terrors of multiculturalism; Ashwani Sharma; Intolerable humiliations; Philomena Essed; The Yyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy: racism and 'cartoon-work' in the age of the World Wide Web; Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius; Part IV: Towards the Future?; Violence in France: crisis or towards post-Republicanism?; Michel Wieviorka; The politics of imperial nostalgia; Robert Spencer; Afterword: Europe's racial crisis?; Ian Law.
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