Europeans, with Manuela Boatcă

Uncommon Sense - A podcast by The Sociological Review - Fridays

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Does anyone know what European means? Manuela Boatcă thought she did, until a late 1990s move from Romania to Germany unsettled everything she had taken for granted. In this episode, she challenges mainstream ideas of “Europe” to show how its borders extend to the Caribbean (and beyond) – a fact that’s obvious if we acknowledge colonialism’s past and present, but is an inconvenient truth for some in political power. Alexis and Rosie ask Manuela: How has Brexit revealed the contradictions bui...