Eurowhiteness : culture, empire and race in the European project / Hans Kundnani.

By:

Kundnani, Hans [author]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Hurst, 2023.Description: 246 pages ; 19 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781787389328

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

305.809

Contents:

European regionalism -- Ideas of Europe -- From colonial project to community of memory -- A new civilising mission -- The civilisational turn in the European project -- Brexit and imperial amnesia.

Summary: "The European Union is often seen as a cosmopolitan rejection of violent nationalism. Yet the idea of Europe has a long, problematic history - in medieval times, it was synonymous with Christianity; in the modern era, it became associated with 'whiteness'. Eurowhiteness exposes the EU as a vehicle for imperial amnesia. Narratives of European integration emphasise the lessons of war and the Holocaust, but not the lessons of colonial history. The EU is about power as much as peace - and civic ideas of Europe are being displaced by ethnic and cultural ones. Since the 2015 refugee crisis, whiteness has become even more central to European identity - a troubling new turn in Europe's long civilisational project. It is time to confront the relationship between ideas of Europe and ideas of race." -- Publisher's description.

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Book - 7-day loan	CYA Library Main Collection	305.809 KUN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Checked out	13/02/2024	00000011494

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

European regionalism -- Ideas of Europe -- From colonial project to community of memory -- A new civilising mission -- The civilisational turn in the European project -- Brexit and imperial amnesia.

"The European Union is often seen as a cosmopolitan rejection of violent nationalism. Yet the idea of Europe has a long, problematic history - in medieval times, it was synonymous with Christianity; in the modern era, it became associated with 'whiteness'.
Eurowhiteness exposes the EU as a vehicle for imperial amnesia. Narratives of European integration emphasise the lessons of war and the Holocaust, but not the lessons of colonial history. The EU is about power as much as peace - and civic ideas of Europe are being displaced by ethnic and cultural ones.
Since the 2015 refugee crisis, whiteness has become even more central to European identity - a troubling new turn in Europe's long civilisational project. It is time to confront the relationship between ideas of Europe and ideas of race." -- Publisher's description.