Messy Europe

Kristin Loftsdottir is a Professor at the University of Iceland. She directs the research project "(Icelandic) Identity in Crisis," and is an organizer of the Project of Excellence "Icelandic mobility and Transnationalism." Her research interests include postcolonial Europe, gender, migration and racism. She recently co-edited a book entitled Crisis in the Nordic Nations and Beyond (2014) with Lars Jensen.Andrea L. Smith is Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Lafayette College, Pennsylvania. Her interests include postcolonial European social memory, French settler colonialism in Algeria, and race, ethnicity and place-making. Her publications include the edited volume, Europe's Invisible Migrants (2003), and the co-authored book, Rebuilding Shattered Worlds: Creating Community by Voicing the Past (2016).Brigitte Hipfl is Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Communication Studies at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. She works on media and gender, subject formations, the affective labor of media, and postcolonial Europe, and is currently exploring migration in Austrian cinema and TV. She recently co-edited Teaching 'Race' with a Gendered Edge (2012) with Kristin Loftsdottir.

• List of FiguresIntroduction: Messy Europe: Crisis, Race and Nation-State in a Postcolonial WorldKristin Loftsdottir, Andrea Smith and Brigitte HipflChapter 1. Wise Viking Daughters: Equality and Whiteness in Economic CrisisKristin Loftsdottir and Helga BjornsdottirChapter 2. "Latvians do not understand the Greek people": Crisis, Endurance, and EuropeannessDace DzenovskaChapter 3. Fairness and Entitlement in Neoliberal England, 2005-2015Steve GarnerChapter 4. Debating Refugee Deservingness in Post-Celtic Tiger IrelandShay CannedyChapter 5. What is a life? On Poverty and Race in Humanitarian ItalyAndrea MuehlebachChapter 6. Policing Crisis in Austrian Crime FictionBrigitte HipflChapter 7. Crisis France: Covert Racialization and the Gens du VoyageAndrea L. SmithChapter 8. Navigating the Mediterranean Refugee "Crisis": Alter-Globalization Activism and the Sediments of History on LampedusaAntonio SorgeEpilogue: Declining EuropeThomas Hylland EriksenBibliographyIndex

"The contribution to research-based understandings of `crisis talk', `being in a state of crisis', the growing tension between legal and moral obligations, and the intersection of economics and morality is intriguing, critical, urgent, and comes precisely at the right historical conjuncture. The volume is a welcome and thoughtful effort to disentangle what is going on." * Peter Hervik, Aalborg University