Anxious politics in the European city: an introduction

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Notes

1 Thomas Hylland Eriksen, ‘It's the culture, stupid! Or, is it?’, Eriksen's blog, 16 January 2016, available at https://thomashyllanderiksen.net (viewed 17 February 2016),

2 R. D. Grillo, ‘Cultural essentialism and cultural anxiety’, Anthropological Theory, vol. 3, no. 2, 2003, 157–73; Steven Vertovec, ‘The cultural politics of nation and migration’, Annual Review of Anthropology, vol. 40, 2011, 241–56; Baukje Prins, ‘The nerve to break taboos: new realism in the Dutch discourse on multiculturalism’, Journal of International Migration and Integration, vol. 3, no. 3–4, 2002, 363–79; Alana Lentin and Gavan Titley, The Crises of Multiculturalism: Racism in a Neoliberal Age (London and New York: Zed Books 2011); Paul Silverstein, ‘Immigrant racialization and the new savage slot: race, migration, and immigration in the new Europe’, Annual Review of Anthropology, vol. 34, 2005, 363–84.

3 Willem Schinkel and Friso Van Houdt, ‘The double helix of cultural assimilationism and neo-liberalism: citizenship in contemporary governmentality’, British Journal of Sociology, vol. 61, no. 4, 2010, 696–715; Willem Schinkel, ‘The virtualization of citizenship’, Critical Sociology, vol. 36, no. 2, 2010, 265–83.

4 Bethany Albertson and Shana Kushner Gadarian, ‘Prologue’, in Bethany Albertson and Shana Kushner Gadarian (eds), Anxious Politics: Democratic Citizenship in a Threatening World (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015), xxi.

5 Ibid., xx.

6 Ibid.

7 Paul Gilroy, Postcolonial Melancholia (New York: Columbia University Press 2005); Ghassan Hage, White Nation: Fantasies of White Supremacy in a Multicultural Society (London and New York: Routledge 2000); Ghassan Hage, ‘État de siège: a dying domesticating colonialism?’, American Ethnologist, vol. 43, no. 1, 2016, 38–49.

8 Vertovec, ‘The cultural politics of nation and migration’; Andreas Wimmer and Nina Glick Schiller, ‘Methodological nationalism and beyond: nation-state building, migration and the social sciences’, Global Networks, vol. 2, no. 4, 2002, 301–34.

9 Verena Stolcke, ‘Talking culture: new boundaries, new rhetorics of exclusion in Europe’, Current Anthropology, vol. 36, no. 1, 1995, 1–24.

10 Hage, White Nation.

11 Hage, ‘État de siège’, 39.

12 Prins, ‘The nerve to break taboos’; Steven Vertovec and Susanne Wessendorf, The Multiculturalism Backlash: European Discourses, Policies and Practices (London and New York: Routledge 2010).

13 Andrea Muehlebach, ‘On affective labor in post-Fordist Italy’, Cultural Anthropology, vol. 26, no. 1, 2011, 59–82; Anne-Marie Fortier, ‘Proximity by design? Affective citizenship and the management of unease’, Citizenship Studies, vol. 14, no. 1, 2010, 17–30.

14 See also Fortier, ‘Proximity by design?’.

15 Gijs Herderscheê and Jaap Stam, ‘Asscher wil elke migrant contract laten tekenen’, De Volkskrant, 20 February 2013.

16 Henk van Houtum, ‘Asschers participatiecontract is een discriminatoir en paternalistisch heropvoedingsprogramma’, De Volkskrant, 1 March 2013; see also Rogier van Reekum and Jan Willem Duyvendak, ‘Running from our shadows: the performative impact of policy diagnoses in Dutch debates on immigrant integration’, Patterns of Prejudice, vol. 46, no. 5, 2012, 445–66.

17 Mette Louise Berg and Nando Sigona, ‘Ethnography, diversity and urban space’, Identities, vol. 20, no. 4, 2013, 347–60.

18 Hage, White Nation.

19 Ralph Grillo, ‘An excess of alterity? Debating difference in a multicultural society’, Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol. 30, no. 6, 2007, 979–98.

20 See Paul Mepschen, ‘Everyday Autochthony: Difference, Discontent and Politics of Home in Amsterdam’, Ph.D. thesis, University of Amsterdam, January 2016.

21 David Theo Goldberg, ‘Racial Europeanization’, Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol. 29, no. 2, 2006, 331–64.

22 Douglas R. Holmes, Integral Europe: Fast-Capitalism, Multiculturalism, Neofascism (Princeton, NJ and Woodstock: Princeton University Press 2000).

23 Abdelmalek Sayad, The Suffering of the Immigrant, trans. from the French by David Macey (Cambridge and Malden, MA: Polity Press 2004), 179.