Creating Europe from the Margins (ePub)

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).