Creating Europe from the Margins: Mobilities and Racism in Postcolonial Europe

This edited volume explores the idea of Europe through a focus on its margins. In doing so, the volume stresses the need to consider Europe from critical interdisciplinary perspectives, highlighting historical and contemporary issues of racism and colonialism.

Kristín Loftsdóttir is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Iceland. Her research has focused on notions of exceptionalism, racialization of mobility, racism, gender, crisis, globalization, nationalism, migration and postcolonial Europe. Her publications include Crisis and Coloniality at Europe’s Margins: Creating Exotic Iceland (Routledge, 2019) and We Are All African Here: Race, Mobilities and West Africans in Europe (2021), and co-author of Exceptionalism (Routledge, 2021). She is also co-editor of Whiteness and Postcolonialism in the Nordic Region: Exceptionalism, Migrant Others and National Identities (Routledge, 2012), Crisis in the Nordic Nations and Beyond: At the Intersection of Environment, Finance and Multiculturalism (Routledge, 2014), and Messy Europe: Crisis, Race and the Nation State in a Postcolonial World (2018). She is currently the Principal Investigator of the CERM (Creating Europe through Racialized Mobilities) project.

Brigitte Hipfl is Associate Professor Emerita in the Department of Media and Communication Studies at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. Her research explores media, gender, race, and the affective dynamics of media with a focus on issues related to migration, conviviality, solidarity, and memory work. She is co-editor of Messy Europe: Crisis, Race and the Nation State in a Postcolonial World (2018), Wir und die Anderen: Visuelle Kultur zwischen Aneignung und Ausgrenzung (2020), Handbuch Medien und Geschlecht: Perspektiven und Befunde der feministischen Kommunikations- und Medienforschung (2023), and Intersektionale Solidaritäten: Beiträge zur gesellschaftskritischen Geschlechterforschung (2023).

Sandra Ponzanesi is Chair and Professor of Media, Gender and Postcolonial Studies in the Department of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University, Netherlands, where she is also the founding director of the PCI (Postcolonial Studies Initiative). She has published widely in the field of media, postcolonial studies, digital migration, and cinema, with a particular focus on Postcolonial Europe from comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives. She is author of Paradoxes of Postcolonial Culture: Contemporary Women Writers of the Indian and Afro-Italian Diaspora (2004) and The Postcolonial Cultural Industry: Icons, Markets, Mythologies (2014). She is also editor of Gender, Globalization, and Violence: Postcolonial Conflict Zones (Routledge, 2016) and co-editor of numerous other edited collections, including Postcolonial Transitions in Europe (Rowman and Littlefield 2016), Postcolonial Cinema Studies (Routledge, 2012) and Deconstructing Europe: Postcolonial Perspectives (Routledge, 2012). She has also edited several special issues on digital migration, cinema, and Europe for a range of peer-reviewed journals.