Cover ; Half Title ; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Table of Contents ; Notes on contributors; Preface; 1 Introducing austere histories ; Part I Cases ; 2 'Our island story': the dangerous politics of belonging in austere times ; 3 The politics of colonial remembrance in France (1980-2012) ; 4 The selective forgetting and remodelling of the past: postcolonial legacies in the Netherlands ; 5 From austerity to postcolonial nostalgia: crisis and national identity in Portugal and Denmark ; 6 Austere curricula: multicultural education and blackstudents ; Part II Conjunctures
7 Exclusion through citizenship and the geopolitics of austerity 8 Refugee Keynesianism? EU migration crises in times of fiscal austerity ; 9 Restrained equality: a sexualized and gendered colour line ; 10 Writing history for an uncertain future: concluding remarks ; Index
