Austere Histories in European Societies: Social Exclusion and the Contest of Colonial Memories

ISBN-13: 9780367490164 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 204 str.

Stefan Jonsson; Julia Willen

Opis

This book examines how political and economic crises in the present trigger a selective forgetting and remodelling of the past.

Spis treści

1. Introducing Austere Histories – Stefan Jonsson and Julia Willén  Part I: Cases  2. ‘Our Island Story’: The Dangerous Politics of Belonging in Austere Times – Gurminder K. Bhambra  3. The Politics of Colonial Remembrance in France (1980-2012) – Nicolas Bancel and Pascal Blanchard  4. The Selective Forgetting and Remodeling of the Past: Postcolonial Legacies in the Netherlands – Esther Captain  5. From Austerity to Postcolonial Nostalgia: Crisis and National Identity in Portugal and Denmark –Elsa Peralta and Lars Jensen  6. Austere Curricula: Multicultural Education and Black Students – Robbie Shilliam  Part II: Conjunctures  7. Exclusion through Citizenship and the Geopolitics of Austerity – Manuela Boatcă  8. Refugee Keynesianism? EU Migration Crises in Times of Fiscal Austerity – Peo Hansen  9. Restrained Equality: A Sexualized and Gendered Colour Line – Nacira Guénif-Souilamas  10. Writing History for an Uncertain Future: Concluding Remarks – Julia Willén and Stefan Jonsson

O autorze

Stefan Jonsson is Professor of Ethnic studies at Linköping University, Sweden.

Julia Willén is a doctoral candidate at Linköping University, Sweden.