Re-Framing Europe

En-Gendered Racisms, Ethnicities and Nationalisms in Contemporary Western Europe

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7773487
AutoresAvtar Brah (autor de correspondencia)
Año1993
Volumen45
Número1
Páginas9-29
Fecha de publicación1993-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaFeminist Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0141-7789 • E-ISSN: 1466-4380
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1057/fr.1993.35
OpenAlexW2067344190
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas38
Referencias citadas17

We are living in a period marked by profound changes. The political upheavals of recent times in Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, South Africa, Central and South America to note a few examples and the aftermath of the Gulf War, signal major realignments in the structuring of the world political order. There has been a fundamental transformation in the political economy of late twentieth-century capitalism with a growing dominance of multinational capital, an increasing consolidation of global markets, the development of new techniques in production and distribution systems, the formation of a new international division of labour, and a revolution in the technologies of communication. In the cultural sphere, the homogenizing tendencies of mass cultural consumption across transnational boundaries are paralleled by a reassertion of the local aesthetic, political and ethnic tradition, and a call for a recognition of heterogeneity and cultural difference. In Western Europe, '1992' has come to signify a new phase in the relations between the twelve members of the European Community. On 1 January 1993, the internal borders of the twelve states officially came down with the intent of allowing the free movement of capital, goods, services and certain categories of people. The emerging configuration that is increasingly described as the 'New Europe' is as yet difficult to define. What will this new configuration be? Is the new Europe primarily a constellation of economic interests emerging in the face of growing competition, especially from Japan and the USA? To what extent will Eastern European countries become Western Europe's new colonies? What will be the impact of such realignments of European countries on the 'Third World'? What will be the place of Europe in the wake of the Gulf War now that the USA emerges as the dominant global

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