Routledge Handbook of Peripheries in European Studies

Pamela Ballinger is Professor of History and Fred Cuny Chair in the History of Human Rights at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, USA.Clemens Sedmak is Professor of Social Ethics and Director of the Nanovic Institute in the Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame, USA.

• Introduction - Seeing like a Periphery: Europe from the Periphery, Periphery as Method Section 1. Conceptualizing Peripheries in a European Context 1. Reimagining Europe 2. Peripheralization and the Law: Notes on Fraught Dynamics 3. Center and Periphery in Migration Studies 4. From Europe’s Margins to Global Britain: The (failed) Project of the UK’s Post-Brexit Identity 5. Stigma and Exclusion in French Urban Peripheries 6. On the Periphery of Society: The Social Exclusion of East Germany 7. Thriving at the Edge: Rewriting the Urban Creativity Canon from the Margins Section 2. Types of Peripheries in Europe 8. A Typology of Peripheries Section 2.1. Geographic Peripheries 9. Locating Europe’s Geographic Peripheries 10. A Multiple Geographies Perspective to Peripheralization: Multiplicity and Multi-Scalarity in the Making of Peripheries 11. Literary Depictions of Francophone Postcolonial Peripheries on the Brink: Island Uprisings 12. European Integration as a Process of Deperipheralization: The Periphery as Centre and Centre as Periphery 13. Mediterranean Islands as Sites of Peripheral Reasoning: Thinking with interfaces 14. The European Union, the Balkans and the Multipolar Core-Periphery Dynamics Section 2.2. Structural Peripheries 15. Introducing Structural Peripheries in the European Union 16. Peripheral Regions in Europe: Definitions, Typologies, and Directions 17. From Production to Consumption in the Assembled Countryside: Colonialisms, Mobilities, and Peripheralization 18. A Structural Periphery in Slovakia: Identity, Resilience, and Historical Memory in Partizánska Ľupča Section 2.3. Sociopolitical Peripheries 19. Introducing Sociopolitical Peripheries: Power, Relationality, and Transformation in the Margins of Europe 20. Democratic Resistance at Europe’s “Holy Mile”: Notes from the Neapolitan Underground 21. Peripheralization and centralization in the city: A case study of gentrification, criminalization, and policing in south London 22. Weaponized Migrants at the Peripheries: Promise and Peril on the ‘Eastern Borders Route’ to Europe 23. Disrupting Core-Periphery Dynamics: Diasporic Spheres of Influence in International Relations Section 2.4. Epistemic Peripheries 24. Introducing Epistemic Peripheries: Decolonizing Time, Space and Narratives 25. Playing with Time, Temporality, and Periodization: Challenges and Opportunities in Narrating the History of Peripheries 26. From Peripheral Vision to Peripheral Time: Survival in the Aftermath of the Armenian Genocide 27. From the Metropolitan Peripheries to the Center: Luigi Zampa’s Angelina in the Global Marketplace 28. Alexander Pushkin’s Black Ancestry in the Age of Russian Empire Section 3: Peripheries Research in Europe: Methodological Challenges and Moral Concerns 29. Peripheral Vision as a Method for Anthropological Knowledge Production: Historical and Contemporary Ethnographic Approaches to Europe 30. Core and Periphery in the EU Legal Space 31. European Foreign Policy and Tuning into the Voices from the Peripheries 32. The Peripheral World of the Hedgeland: Explorations in Fiction 33. Europe’s Missionary Peripheries: Established, Instrumentalized, and Dynamic Conclusion - Unlearning from the Peripheries: Some Conclusions

“By centring on peripheries, the essays in this handbook draw attention to their shifting, ambiguous, and plural nature, emphasise the importance of cultural distinctions as well as economic or political asymmetries in defining their positions, and expand the scope of European studies beyond the European land mass to include geographically distinct sites that are defined as peripheral solely because of their relationship to Europe. With its productive typology distinguishing between spatial, structural, sociopolitical and epistemic peripheries, this volume will be both an extraordinarily useful resource and an inspiration to further research.”Wendy Bracewell, Emeritus Professor, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, UK“It is only through Europe’s material and symbolic peripheries that we can begin to understand – and, ultimately, unsettle – ‘Europe’ as a coherent cultural, racial, and even geographic referent. This task is especially urgent at a time of increasingly fortified borders and virulent xenophobic nationalisms. Drawing on diverse theoretical traditions and methodological approaches, the chapters in this volume analyze the ‘periphery’ as a spatial referent, a relational process, a structural position, an embodied subjectivity, and an epistemological standpoint. This handbook should be essential reading for scholars in European studies, post/decolonial studies, and critical migration and border studies.”Camilla Hawthorne, Associate Professor of Sociology, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA“This groundbreaking multidisciplinary handbook brings into conversation a territorial configuration – Europe – and the productive concept of peripheralization – two indispensable frameworks with which to better understand the uncertain and unpredictable character of 21st century geopolitics.”Dominic Thomas, Letessier Professor of European Languages and Transcultural Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, USA"In its bold reenvisioning of Europe, this volume breaks methodological ground and assembles cutting-edge empirical knowledge on a perpetually changing continent. Here, the periphery becomes both the canvas and the brush to depict a whole new Europe, a place of staggering geographical, structural, sociopolitical and epistemic multiplicity. A plea for relearning and reconsidering our scholarly perspectives, this is a must-read across multiple fields."Theodora Dragostinova, author of The Cold War from the Margins