[Commlist] New book: Creating Europe from the Margins: Mobilities and Racism in Postcolonial Europe

New book

Creating Europe from the Margins
Mobilities and Racism in Postcolonial Europe
Edited By Kristín Loftsdóttir, Brigitte Hipfl, Sandra Ponzanesi
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003269748

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Open access chapter
"When the Margins Enter the Centre: The Documentary Along the Borders of 
Turkey and Its YouTube Comments as Conflicting Constructions of 
Europeanity", by Nico Carpentier and Vaia Doudaki
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003269748-11/margins-enter-centre-nico-carpentier-vaia-doudaki
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BOOK ABSTRACT

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, European colonies in 
the Caribbean 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 
significance to those in the humanities and social sciences with an 
interest in Europe.

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TOC

Creating Europe from the Margins
Introduction
By Kristín Loftsdóttir, Brigitte Hipfl, Sandra Ponzanesi

chapter 2|16 pages
Articulating Europe from the Sephardic Margin
Restoring Citizenship for Expulsed Jews, and Not Muslims, in Spain?
By Maribel Casas-Cortés, Sebastian Cobarrubias Baglietto

chapter 3|18 pages
Racist and Imperial Genealogies in LGBT-free Zones and Struggles over 
Europe in Poland
By Paweł Lewicki

chapter 4|18 pages
‘From Nowhere to Nowhere’ – Mapping Trajectories of Belonging within the 
Post-Yugoslav Field
By Milica Trakilović

chapter 5|15 pages
A Crossroads of the World on the Margins of Europe
Migration and Sicilian Liminality
By Antonio Sorge

chapter 6|16 pages
Digital Media and Migration
Reflections from the Southern Margins of Europe
By Claudia Minchilli, Sandra Ponzanesi

chapter 7|17 pages
Gay Bod
Civic and LGBTQ+ Pride after Brexit in a City on the Margins of the UK 
and Europe
By Catherine Baker, Michael Howcroft

chapter 8|15 pages
Marginalized Bodies in Caribbean Europe
Between Vital Inequalities and Health (Im)mobilities
By Corinna A. Di Stefano, Fabio Santos, Manuela Boatcă

chapter 9|17 pages
Marketing Marginality
Creating Iceland as a White Privileged Destination
By Kristín Loftsdóttir

chapter 10|17 pages
Making Europe from Below
Intra EU-Migration and Mobilities Connecting the Margins
By Ignacio Fradejas-García, José Luis Molina, Miranda J. Lubbers

chapter 11|19 pages
When the Margins Enter the Centre
The Documentary Along the Borders of Turkey and Its YouTube Comments as 
Conflicting Constructions of Europeanity
By Nico Carpentier, Vaia Doudaki
Open access chapter, downloadable at:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003269748-11/margins-enter-centre-nico-carpentier-vaia-doudaki

chapter 12|16 pages
Beating the Border
Playing with Migrant Experiences and Borderveillant Spectatorship in 
Channel 4's Smuggled (2019)
By Lennart Soberon, Kevin Smets



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