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Europeanisation as violence

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The book explores the violence enacted on Europe’s many internal and external Souths and Easts through forms of political, cultural and security-development related “Europeanisation”. It proposes i...
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The book offers a novel lens to situate Europeanisation as violence – through institutions and technologies of development, cultural heritage, and borders, among others – by bringing South and East within a relational frame. Through four inter-related sections, it foregrounds Europeanisation as infrastructural violence and colonial asymmetries, slow violence and the construction of stratified subalternities, epistemic dispossession, and border epistemologies.
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Price: £25.00
Pages: 280
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Publication Date: 21 January 2025
ISBN: 9781526174727
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:

POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Social theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, Political geography, Decolonisation and postcolonial studies, Development studies

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Foreword by Manuela Boatca

Introduction: Europeanisation as violence: Souths and Easts as method – Daria Krivonos, Kolar Aparna and Elisa Pascucci

Part I: Europeanisation as infrastructural violence and colonial asymmetries
1 Europeanisation and infrastructural violence in South East Europe – Senka Neuman Stanivukovic
2 Europeanisation, border violence, counterinsurgency: expanded geographies and reconnected histories across the Sahelo-Sahara and the Mediterranean – Hassan Ould Moctar
3 A battleground for French and Russian imperialism: how Chad’s (post)socialist and (post-)colonial present is shaping its political future – Kelma Manatouma
4 The making of ‘the bread basket of Europe’: from the Dutch East India Company to the East Company in Ukraine and grain in the Soviet Union – Daria Krivonos and Kolar Aparna

Part II: Europeanisation as slow violence and stratified subalternities
5 No alternative but Europeanisation: slow violence and critical imaginaries in/from/with South East Europe – Maria-Adriana Deiana and Katarina Kušic
6 Hierarchising heritage: bordering Europe and stratified subalternities in the Easts and Souths of Europe – Alexandra Oanca
7 The good, the bad and the ugly European: racial Eastern Europeanisation and stratified (sub)alter(n)ities – Ana Ivasiuc

Part III: Europeanisation as epistemic dispossession
8 The trauma of the key beyond dominant narratives: navigating epistemic and structural violence in Yemen’s historical landscape – Saba Hamzah
9 From singular to plural: how to write the story of a Roma actress – Mihaela Dragan

Part IV: Border epistemologies of Europeanisation
10 Patterns of coloniality within the innovation economy: talent attraction and the converging racialising processes of migration administration – Olivia Maury
11 ‘Keep your clients because I quit’: an ethnodrama of creolising research with Roma women – Ioana ?î?tea
12 Swimming with the coelacanth into the black holes of Breslau/Wroclaw, the Eastern Polish Kresy and Madagascar – Olivier Kramsch
Afterword: Souths, Easts and the politics of dissent at this colonial conjuncture – Prem Kumar Rajaram

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