Race and Crisis

ISBN-13: 9780367583330 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 172 str.

Suman Gupta; Satnam Virdee

Opis

This book explores constructions of race and crisis in the EU amidst the rise of Euroscepticism, disaffection with neoliberal austerity, and anti-immigration sentiment. It approaches these issues with specific contexts and from a range of perspectives. This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Spis treści

Introduction: European crises: contemporary nationalism and the language of race  1.The migrant crisis as racial crisis: do Black Lives Matter in Europe?  2. The Hieroglyphics of the border: racial stigma in neoliberal Europe  3. Racism, Crisis, Brexit  4. Rioting and the politics of crisis  5. Race, and the upsurge of antagonistic popular movements in Sweden  6. Racialization and counter-racialization in times of crisis: taking migrant struggles in Italy as a critical standpoint on race  7. Migration, crisis, liberalism: the cultural and racial politics of Islamophobia and "radical alterity" in modern Greece  8. Blackboard as separation wall: classrooms, race and the contemporary crisis in Germany

O autorze

Suman Gupta is Professor of Literature and Cultural History at the Open University, UK, and has recently coordinated the international project Framing Financial Crisis and Protest: NW and SE Europe.

Satnam Virdee is Professor of Sociology at the University of Glasgow, UK, and founding Director of the Centre for Research on Racism, Ethnicity and Nationalism.