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Record Nr.

UNINA9910149384603321

Titolo

Austere histories in European societies : social exclusion and the contest of colonial memories / / edited by Stefan Jonsson and Julia Willén

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-315-69399-2

1-317-43816-7

Edizione

[1st.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (219 pages)

Collana

Routledge Advances in Sociology

Disciplina

306.094

Soggetti

Marginality, Social - Europe

Immigrants - Europe

Minorities - Europe

Social stratification - Europe

Citizenship - Europe

Postcolonialism - Europe

Europe Cultural policy

Europe Social policy

Europe Economic policy

Europe History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Preface -- 1 Introducing austere histories -- Part I Cases -- 2 'Our island story': the dangerous politics of belonging in austere times -- 3 The politics of colonial remembrance in France (1980-2012) -- 4 The selective forgetting and remodelling of the past: postcolonial legacies in the Netherlands -- 5 From austerity to postcolonial nostalgia: crisis and national identity in Portugal and Denmark -- 6 Austere curricula: multicultural education and blackstudents -- Part II Conjunctures -- 7 Exclusion through citizenship and the geopolitics of austerity -- 8 Refugee Keynesianism? EU migration crises in times of fiscal austerity -- 9 Restrained equality:



a sexualized and gendered colour line -- 10 Writing history for an uncertain future: concluding remarks -- Index.