The social imaginary of precarious Europeans: the cultural representation of European socio-economic precarity in Tascha and Bande de Filles

This contribution focuses on how two artistic texts represent precarious Europeans: vulnerable social subjects (citizens, inhabitants of Europe/the EU) who may be deemed “losers” of the European project. These precarious people are seldom – if at all – represented as participants in the complex processes of Europeanisation. The texts analysed and discussed in this contribution are the Dutch novel Tascha by Mira Feticu (2015) and the French feature film, Bande de Filles by Céline Sciamma (2014). I argue that a critical analysis of these narratives enables us to probe open the category that constitutes “Europeans” and nudges us to rethink who is considered to be “European”.