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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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  • 21 January 2025
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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: $36.95
Pages: 280
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Publication Date: 21 January 2025
ISBN: 9781526174727
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: Development studies, Social theory, Decolonisation and postcolonial studies, Political geography
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Kolar Aparna is a Researcher in the Department of Cultures at the University of Helsinki
Daria Krivonos is a Researcher at the Swedish School of Social Science, University of Helsinki
Elisa Pascucci is Senior Researcher at the Space and Political Agency Research Group, Tampere University

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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