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

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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 Europes 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.