The Routledge Handbook of Peripheries in European Studies

Introduction: Seeing Like a Periphery: Europe from the Periphery, Periphery as Method
Pamela Ballinger

SECTION 1
Conceptualizing Peripheries in a European Context

1 Reimagining Europe
Clemens Sedmak

2 Peripheralization and the Law: Notes on Fraught Dynamics
Jean-Pierre Gauci

3 Center and Periphery in Migration Studies
Esther Romeyn

4 From Europe’s Margins to Global Britain: The (Failed) Project of the UK’s Post-Brexit Identity
Tessa Hauswedell

5 Stigma and Exclusion in French Urban Peripheries
Ernesto Castaneda

6 On the Periphery of Society: The Social Exclusion of East Germany
Hilary Silver

7 Thriving at the Edge: Rewriting the Urban Creativity Canon from the Margins
Gernot Grabher and Oliver Ibert

SECTION 2
Types of Peripheries in Europe
8 A Typology of Peripheries
Clemens Sedmak

2.1: Geographic Peripheries
9 Locating Europe’s Geographic Peripheries
Sarah Green

10 A Multiple Geographies Perspective to Peripheralisation: Multiplicity and Multi-Scalarity in the Making of Peripheries
Thilo Lang

11 Literary Depictions of Francophone Postcolonial Peripheries on the Brink: Island Uprisings
Alison Rice

12 European Integration as a Process of Deperipheralisation: The Periphery as Centre and Centre as Periphery
Alexander Clarkson

13 Mediterranean Islands as Sites of Peripheral Reasoning: Thinking with Interfaces
Theodoros Rakopoulos

14 The European Union, the Balkans and the Multipolar Core-Periphery Dynamics
Othon Anastasakis

2.2: Structural Peripheries
15 Introducing Structural Peripheries in the European Union
Andreas Koch

16 Peripheral Regions in Europe: Definitions, Typologies, and Directions
Rhiannon Pugh and Riley Wenjia Ding

17 From Production to Consumption in the Assembled Countryside: Colonialisms, Mobilities, and Peripheralisation
Joanie Willett

18 A Structural Periphery In Slovakia: Identity, Resilience, and Historical Memory in Partizanska Ľupča
Marek Babic, Clemens Sedmak, Lukaš Tkač, Jan Golian, Maria Timčikova, and Samuel Červeňansky

2.3: Sociopolitical Peripheries
19 Introducing Sociopolitical Peripheries: Power, Relationality, and Transformation in the Margins of Europe
Jennifer Jackson-Preece

20 Democratic Resistance at Europe’ "Holy Mile: Notes from the Neapolitan Underground
Maurizio Albahari

21 Peripheralization and Centralization in the City: A Case Study of Gentrification, Criminalization, and Policing in South London
Malte Michael Laub

22 Weaponized Migrants at the Peripheries: Promise and Peril on the ‘Eastern Borders Route’ to Europe
Barbara Buckinx

23 Disrupting Core-Periphery Dynamics: Diasporic Spheres of Influence in International Relations
Oula Kadhum

2.4: Epistemic Peripheries
24 Introducing Epistemic Peripheries: Decolonizing Time, Space and Narratives
Liam Hilton and Angelica Pesarini

25 Playing with Time, Temporality, and Periodization: Challenges and Opportunities in Narrating the History of Peripheries
John Deak

26 From Peripheral Vision to Peripheral Time: Survival in the Aftermath of the Armenian Genocide
Ayşe Parla

27 From the Metropolitan Peripheries to the Center: Luigi Zampa’s Angelina in the Global Marketplace
Charles L. Leavitt IV

28 Alexander Pushkin’s Black Ancestry in the Age of Russian Empire
Emily Wang and Korey Garibaldi

SECTION 3
Peripheries Research in Europe: Methodological Challenges and Moral Concerns
29 Peripheral Vision as a Method for Anthropological Knowledge Production: Historical and Contemporary Ethnographic Approaches to Europe
Susanna Trnka

30 Core and Periphery in The Eu Legal Space
Marja-Liisa Oberg

31 European Foreign Policy and Tuning into the Voices from the Peripheries
Sarah Wolff

32 The Peripheral World of the Hedgeland: Explorations in Fiction
Aedin Ni Loingsigh

33 Europe’s Missionary Peripheries: Established, Instrumentalized, and Dynamic
Paul V. Kollman

Conclusion: Unlearning from the Peripheries: Some Conclusions
Clemens Sedmak

Biography

Pamela Ballinger is Professor of History and Fred Cuny Chair in the History of Human Rights at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, USA.

Clemens Sedmak is Professor of Social Ethics and Director of the Nanovic Institute in the Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame, USA.

“By centring on peripheries, the essays in this handbook draw attention to their shifting, ambiguous, and plural nature, emphasise the importance of cultural distinctions as well as economic or political asymmetries in defining their positions, and expand the scope of European studies beyond the European land mass to include geographically distinct sites that are defined as peripheral solely because of their relationship to Europe. With its productive typology distinguishing between spatial, structural, sociopolitical and epistemic peripheries, this volume will be both an extraordinarily useful resource and an inspiration to further research.”
Wendy Bracewell, Emeritus Professor, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, UK

“It is only through Europe’s material and symbolic peripheries that we can begin to understand – and, ultimately, unsettle – ‘Europe’ as a coherent cultural, racial, and even geographic referent. This task is especially urgent at a time of increasingly fortified borders and virulent xenophobic nationalisms. Drawing on diverse theoretical traditions and methodological approaches, the chapters in this volume analyze the ‘periphery’ as a spatial referent, a relational process, a structural position, an embodied subjectivity, and an epistemological standpoint. This handbook should be essential reading for scholars in European studies, post/decolonial studies, and critical migration and border studies.”
Camilla Hawthorne, Associate Professor of Sociology, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA

“This groundbreaking multidisciplinary handbook brings into conversation a territorial configuration – Europe – and the productive concept of peripheralization – two indispensable frameworks with which to better understand the uncertain and unpredictable character of 21^st century geopolitics.”
Dominic Thomas, Letessier Professor of European Languages and Transcultural Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

"In its bold reenvisioning of Europe, this volume breaks methodological ground and assembles cutting-edge empirical knowledge on a perpetually changing continent. Here, the periphery becomes both the canvas and the brush to depict a whole new Europe, a place of staggering geographical, structural, sociopolitical and epistemic multiplicity. A plea for relearning and reconsidering our scholarly perspectives, this is a must-read across multiple fields."

Theodora Dragostinova, author of The Cold War from the Margins