‘Concentric Circles’ at the Periphery of the European Union

Muller, Karis

doi:10.1111/1467-8497.00100

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“…In fact, as Karis Muller has shown early on, when superimposed on the official EU map, the areas covered by the Euro provide ‘a time lagged photograph of colonization’ (Muller, 2000: 328). Against this background, the discursive construction of a singular notion of Europe depends on the silencing of the historical role of its member states and their predecessors in creating the main structures of global political and economic inequality during European colonial rule.…”

Section: European Borders Otherwisementioning

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Thinking Europe Otherwise: Lessons from the Caribbean

Boatcă

2020

Current Sociology

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The article makes a case for Europe as a creolized space, or Europe Otherwise. It argues that, in order to account for both the transregional entanglements and the internal hierarchies that European colonialism and imperialism have produced since at least the sixteenth century, we need to unlearn received notions of Europe as an unmarked category; and that theoretical and empirical lessons from the Caribbean are central to relearning Europe differently. To conceive of Europe as a creolized space thus means to draw attention to the decisive shifts that its colonial possessions operate in both its historical legacies and its present borders when consistently taken into account. Such reconceptualization entails a simultaneous creolization of theory so as to reinscribe into sociological thought the experiences of peoples and regions racialized as non-European, non-Western, and non-White alongside the multiple entanglements between Europe and its colonies. Drawing on Caribbean perspectives on creolization, I first discuss how creolizing Europe contributes to countering the definition power of ahistorical and unmarked categories. Subsequently, I propose to rethink Europe as a political, cultural, economic, and discursive formation from its current colonial borders in South America and the Caribbean Sea. Finally, I argue that focusing on Europe’s colonial possessions in the Caribbean today and their corresponding geographical referent, Caribbean Europe, is one way to effectively creolize established understandings of Europe’s colonial history as a thing of the past, of a white Western European identity as the norm, and of the European Union as confined to continental Europe. Recent crises in the Caribbean – from the 2017 hurricanes to Brexit – are used as a magnifying glass in order to make Europe’s ongoing colonial entanglements theoretically and politically visible.

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Thinking Europe Otherwise: Lessons from the Caribbean

Boatcă

2020

Current Sociology

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“…In between lies an array of territories with complex sets of relationships with their metropoles. The status of these entities remains the subject of debate: imperial ‘remnants of history’ awaiting their destiny of de-colonisation (Muller, 2000) or to be rebranded as full regional ORs (Künhardt, 2019). Relationships with their metropoles remain complex, with some territories pushing for ‘true equality’ yet still harbouring deep dissatisfaction and a desire for independence (Ferdinand et al, 2020).…”

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The non-sovereign territories: Economic and environmental challenges of sectoral and geographic over-specialisation in tourism and financial services

Armstrong

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2021

European Urban and Regional Studies

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This paper analyses the economic and geographic characteristics of the world’s principal non-sovereign territories in the context of the growth challenges facing small economies. These territories enjoy high degrees of policy autonomy within a complex array of relationships with their metropolitan countries. Seven of the ten metropolitan powers are European and account for 38 of the 49 inhabited non-sovereign territories. The territories’ distinct economic and geographic characteristics, notably small size and remoteness, have led to their adopting similar niche sectoral growth strategies to those of small sovereign states and a reliance upon tourism and financial services. In spite of the growth challenges faced, most of these territories have attained high levels of per capita gross national income, placing them in the World Bank High Income category. Global heating, economic crises and regional environmental shocks, along with growing international protectionist sentiments, however, raise critical questions regarding the continued viability of their traditional growth strategies, particularly their heavy reliance upon environmentally harmful long-haul air travel and cruise tourism. This paper bridges the gap between large-scale growth studies, which generally overlook non-sovereign entities, and single case studies to examine the determinants of the growth success of non-sovereign territories and their future growth challenges given the pressing need for both economic and environmental sustainability.

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Drawing Algeria into Europe: shifting French policy and the Treaty of Rome (1951–1964)

Brown

2017

Modern & Contemporary France

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‘Concentric Circles’ at the Periphery of the European Union

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Thinking Europe Otherwise: Lessons from the Caribbean

Thinking Europe Otherwise: Lessons from the Caribbean

The non-sovereign territories: Economic and environmental challenges of sectoral and geographic over-specialisation in tourism and financial services

Drawing Algeria into Europe: shifting French policy and the Treaty of Rome (1951–1964)

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