Postcolonial Europe

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This book presents an overview of the direct and indirect ways in which Europe continues to be influenced by its entrenched postcolonial condition. Exploring the notion of postcolonial Europe as it characterises a Europe caught at a number of crossroads, it considers the distinctly European features of a range of global crises by which Europe is beset, relating to migration, nationalism, internationalism, climate change and inequality. Linking these to the legacy of European hegemony during the era of high imperialism and the inability to come to terms with the region’s increasingly provincialised status, the reversal of migrant flows following the implosion of European empires, and the dismantling of welfare societies initially made possible by the accumulation of wealth during colonialism, the author examines the gradual disintegration of the idea of the European collectivity and the erosion of the idea that Europe is a dispenser of privileged status. A wide-ranging study of Europe’s crisis in its postcolonial era, this volume will appeal to scholars of critical sociology, political geography, cultural studies, anthropology, political science and history with interests in colonialism and postcolonialism. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction From postcolonial to postcolonial Europe Postcolonial Europe and decoloniality Postcolonial Europe and whiteness Postcolonial Europe, racism and racialisation studies Defining postcolonial Europe Playing European identity politics Regionalising postcolonial Europe Postcolonial Europe and crises The chapters References 1. Historicising postcolonial Europe Colonial historiography Apologetics of colonialism Approaches to postcolonial memory politics Museums as public displays Anticolonial monuments as public interventions Other postcolonial Europes Popular cultural engagements and reenactments with colonial Europe: Walking the walk Postcoloniality in Seville Apology, reparations and reconciliation in the “shared” postcolonial zone Conclusion Notes References Websites: 2. Postcolonial Europe regionalised Regionalism from an East European perspective Regionalism from a Nordic perspective Regionalism from the south Postcolonial Europe’s elusive (western) centre Postcolonial Europe as centre-periphery Postcolonial Europe and its peripheries Turkey Migration and citizenship From aspirational citizens to aspirational EUropeans Postcolonial Europe and becoming EUropean Regionalism as expansion and implosion Regionalism as postcolonial European implosion Notes References Websites: 3. The nation-empires and their legacy Postcolonial Europe as imperial legacy Benevolence Exceptionalism Benevolence, exceptionalism, civilising mission, colonial restaging and the post-empire Nation-empires and migration The remains of empire Notes References Websites: 4. Postcolonial Europe in the time of crisis Postcolonial Europe as Europe restaged Crisis as metaphor, crisis as categorisation Capitalism in crisis The environment in crisis Postcolonial Europe and the crisis over migration Integrating crises in a conceptual turn Whiteness under siege – environment and capitalism From environment and capitalism in crisis to the crisis over migration Postcolonial Europe as democracy in crisis Postcolonial Europe and the demise of the welfare society Postcolonial Europe and the crisis over migration – the implosion of civilising mission, exceptionalism and benevolence Colonial restaging as the beginning and the end of postcolonial Europe Notes References Websites: Index