Communicating temporalities: The Orientalist unconscious, the European migrant crisis, and the time of the Other

Doboš, Pavel

doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2020.102176

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“…Not only can we find opinions about Visegrád Group states as the last unconquered islands representing true European values, but we can also find calls to fortify these states against a defeated Western Europe. (p. 6) In this view, the 'problem' is thus no longer the 'invasion' of non-Europeans, that is, Muslims and Africans, to Europe, but the naïve Western European societies that have already lost the fight to defend the 'real', that is the White Christian, Europe (Doboš, 2020). A range of fascist demagogues, such as Matteo Salvini or Victor Orbán, have built their political careers on such 'state-led Euroscepticism' (Bürkner, 2020: 561) -inciting their electorates against multiculturalism, a liberal society, gender and minority rights supposedly forced upon their more 'traditional' societies by Brussels (Bialasiewicz and Stallone, 2020;Hendrikse, 2018;Müller, 2018).…”

Section: Process and Discourse Of Disintegrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Liberal and humanitarian voices harshly criticise those advocating and/or implementing strict measures of migration and border control, while for others, the existing measures are insufficient and need to be tightened. While it is impossible to identify a clear-cut geographical dividing line, Doboš (2020) exemplarily analyses a simplified division between East and West on migration policy:Europe is contrasted with the vision of East-Central European countries of the Visegrád Group (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia) which oppose the invasion [ sic ]. Not only can we find opinions about Visegrád Group states as the last unconquered islands representing true European values, but we can also find calls to fortify these states against a defeated Western Europe.…”

Section: The Dual Simultaneities Process–discourse and Integration–di...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Contesting the integration narrative: Shifting perceptions of EUrope

Bachmann

2023

European Urban and Regional Studies

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The European Union (EU) has long projected the vision of an integrating Europe, centred on successful regional integration, as a better geopolitical model in comparison to ‘others’, such as the Cold War superpowers, US neoconservativism or diverse autocratic regimes. The purported superiority of the ‘European model’ is thereby linked to credibly advancing the story of successful regional integration – internally as well as externally. This article suggests a narrative continuum between EU-optimism and EU-scepticism and argues that perceptions about the ‘success’ of the EU as a model for regional integration have changed between the first and the second decade of the new millennium. As part of this shift, EU-scepticism has gained in prominence over EU-optimism. This is related to a series of geopolitical ruptures since the late 2000s, in particular, the financial crisis, disputes on human mobility and border management, rising nationalism, Brexit and other right-wing populist movements across the continent. Focussing on the divisions within the EU as regards financial and migration policy, this article highlights three interrelated simultaneities. It argues (a) that process and discourse of (b) integration and disintegration have (c) internal and external dimensions. Empirically, it builds on interviews with African and European geopolitical elites that have been conducted as part of two research projects on external perceptions of the EU in East Africa between 2010 and 2018. It thus offers a snapshot on the shift of both ‘internal’ and ‘external’ perceptions of the EU against the context of wider geopolitical transformations over the course of this decisive decade.

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Section: Process and Discourse Of Disintegrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Dual Simultaneities Process–discourse and Integration–di...mentioning

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Contesting the integration narrative: Shifting perceptions of EUrope

Bachmann

2023

European Urban and Regional Studies

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“…A key feature of migration studies’ coloniality involves the dehumanisation of migrants. Dehumanisation occurs when migrants ‘are conceived as living corporeal beings, yet it is hard to define if they are human beings that think, feel, act, and so on during the course of their life’ (Doboš, 2020). This process occurs in slow, subtle and routinised ways when migrants’ stories, aspirations and embodiment are discursively differentiated from those of citizen populations, especially dominant ethnic communities (Presti, 2019).…”

Section: The Coloniality Of Migrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Geographies of migration II: Decolonising migration studies

Collins

2022

Progress in Human Geography

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Migration is deeply entangled with colonialism, not only in the historical emergence of nation-states, sovereignty and mobility but in the ongoing continuation of colonial power relations underpinned by racism and exploitation. This report on the geographies of migration explores this relationship through a focus on postcolonial approaches to migration in geography, and emergent efforts to instil a decolonising agenda into the study of migration.

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“…With the internal functioning of the ‘preferred world order model’ coming under stress, the ‘Other’ started to be located within the EU. In addition, over the 2010s, resentment and nationalism towards the ‘other Europe’ were rising and the ‘unification’ of a previously divided continent started to be questioned in the light of increasing South/North and, again, East/West dividing lines within the EU – often over financial or migration policy (Doboš, 2020; Lichtenstein, 2012). The geographical imagination of division has thereby proved to be a powerful one, impeding the sense of collectiveness and, thus, ultimately the legitimacy of the collective European polity (Ther, 2016: 248–250).…”

Section: Narrating Europe: Geopolitical Discourses Of European (Dis)i...mentioning

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Visionary geographies and European Studies

Bachmann

2021

Progress in Human Geography

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This article discusses the relation between human geography and European Studies and critically questions the role of geography in producing knowledge on ‘Europe’ and shaping debates about it. It lays out how geographic contributions to European Studies can roughly be grouped into three broad categories: Europeanization and economic geographies of integration; urban, regional and spatial planning; and critical (geopolitical) approaches to the European Union. They lack, however, an engagement with future processes of European (dis)integration. This article, thus, offers an approach to visionary geographies that seeks to strengthen both geography’s theoretical input and applied contributions to European Studies.

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Communicating temporalities: The Orientalist unconscious, the European migrant crisis, and the time of the Other

Cited by 10 publications

References 25 publications

Contesting the integration narrative: Shifting perceptions of EUrope

Contesting the integration narrative: Shifting perceptions of EUrope

Geographies of migration II: Decolonising migration studies

Visionary geographies and European Studies

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