Unraveling the Myth: Tracing the Limits of Europe through Its Border Figurations

Notions such as insularity, historical erasure and racial and cultural homogeneity all constitute the European myth and contribute to the idea of Europe as an exceptional place. This is further legitimized by discursive, institutional and symbolic processes of inclusion and exclusion as well as the instituting of borders in the name of Europe. Drawing on postcolonial and feminist theory, as well as border studies, cultural studies and postsocialist scholarship, I study Europe as a discursive formation that is operationalized through the instituting of material and symbolic borders. My highligh... Mehr ...