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

This well orchestrated volume provides a very welcome addition to postcolonial debates in Europe, avoiding colonial aphasia and making connection to contemporary issues of austerity, global processes of precarization and new landscapes of migration and racism. It gives a refreshing and original perspective on how colonial memories impact on current patterns of austerity and fiscal inequalities and vice versa on how new economic and political regimes are imbricated in processes of memorialization, commemoration and monumentalization of the past.

It is in this multidisciplinary, comparative and historiographic effort that Europe emerges as a new arena where current economic and political crises affect not just our present but also our past.

Sandra Ponzanesi, Professor of Gender and Postcolonial Studies, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

In recent years European states have turned toward more austere political regimes, entailing budget cuts, deregulation of labour markets, restrictions of welfare systems, securitization of borders and new regimes of migration and citizenship. In the wake of such changes, new forms of social inclusion and exclusion appear that are justified through a reactivation of differences of race, class and gender.

Against this backdrop, this collection investigates contemporary understandings of history and cultural memory. In doing so, the reader will join the leading European contributors of this title in examining how crisis and decline in contemporary Europe trigger a selective forgetting and remodelling of the past. Indeed, Austere Histories in European Societies breaks new paths in scholarship by synthesizing and connecting current European debates on migration, racism and multiculturalism. In addition to this, the authors present debates on cultural memory and the place of the colonial legacy within an extensive comparative framework and across the boundaries of the humanities and social sciences.

This book will appeal to scholars and students across the social sciences and humanities, particularly in European studies, memory studies, sociology, postcolonial studies, migration studies, European history, cultural policy, cultural heritage, economics and political theory.

Stefan Jonsson is Professor of Ethnic Studies at Linkping University, Sweden.

Julia Willn is a doctoral candidate at Linkping University, Sweden

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Austere Histories in European Societies
Social exclusion and the contest of colonial memories
Edited by Stefan Jonsson and Julia Willn

Edited by Stefan Jonsson and Julia Willn

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Names: Jonsson, Stefan, 1961 editor. | Willen, Julia, editor.
Title: Austere histories in European societies : social exclusion and the contest of colonial memories / Stefan Jonsson and Julia Willen.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016022887 | ISBN 9781138909380 (hardback)
Subjects: LCSH: Marginality, SocialEurope. | Social stratificationEurope. | ImmigrantsEurope. | MinoritiesEurope. | CitizenshipEurope. | PostcolonialismEurope. | EuropeCultural policy. | EuropeSocial policy. | EuropeEconomic policy. | EuropeHistory.
Classification: LCC HN380.Z9 M26185 2017 | DDC 306.094dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016022887

ISBN: 978-1-138-90938-0 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-69399-6 (ebk)

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STEFAN JONSSON AND JULIA WILLN

PART I
Cases

GURMINDER K. BHAMBRA

NICOLAS BANCEL AND PASCAL BLANCHARD

ESTHER CAPTAIN

ELSA PERALTA AND LARS JENSEN

ROBBIE SHILLIAM

PART II
Conjunctures

MANUELA BOATC

PEO HANSEN

NACIRA GUNIF-SOUILAMAS

JULIA WILLN AND STEFAN JONSSON

Stefan Jonsson is Professor of Ethnic Studies at the Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO), Linkping University. His recent books include Eurafrica: The Untold History of European Integration and Colonialism (2014; co-authored with Peo Hansen), Crowds and Democracy: The Idea and Image of the Masses from Revolution to Fascism (2013) and Stories from Scoresbysund: Photographs: Colonisation and Mapping (2010; co-authored with Pia Arke).

Julia Willn is a doctoral candidate at the Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO), Linkping University. Her research is framed by postcolonial and decolonial historiography, heritage and memory studies, and critical race and whiteness studies. She is completing a dissertation on the idea of white Africanity, dissident whites and decolonization in the context of Apartheid South Africa and the Pan-African movement.