Europeanisation as violence: Souths and Easts as method

Abstract

The book explores the violence enacted on Europe’s many internal and external Souths and Easts through forms of political, cultural, security and development-related Europeanisation. The twelve contributions, from both academics and artists, employ the analytical lenses of stratified subalternities and graded racialisation to examine the relational politics binding historical and imagined Souths and Easts. The contributions shed light on the heterogeneous manifestations of violence, including infrastructure interventions and border politics in the Balkans, border governance and counterinsurgency in the Saharo-Sahel and Mediterranean, the policing of Roma camps in Southern Europe, and land and agrarian dispossession in Ukraine. The collection proposes inter-referencing between South and East as a space of political possibilities emerging through and despite the violence of Europeanisation.