Postcolonial Transitions in Europe (eBook, PDF)

Contexts, Practices and Politics
Redaktion: Ponzanesi, Sandra; Colpani, Gianmaria

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Is the notion of postcolonial Europe an oxymoron? How do colonial pasts inform the emergence of new subjectivities and political frontiers in contemporary Europe? Postcolonial Transitions in Europe explores these questions from different theoretical, geopolitical and media perspectives. Drawing from the interdisciplinary tools of postcolonial critique, this book contests the idea that Europe developed within clear-cut geographical boundaries. It examines how experiences of colonialism and imperialism continue to be constitutive of the European space and of the very idea of Europe. By approaching Europe as a complex political space, the chapters investigate topical concerns around its politics of inclusion and exclusion towards migrants, asylum seekers and refugees, as well as its take on internal conflicts, transitions and cosmopolitan imaginaries. With a foreword by Paul Gilroy

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 436
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798881872298
• Artikelnr.: 74846620

Autorenporträt

Sandra Ponzanesi is Professor of Gender and Postcolonial Studies at the Department of Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University. Gianmaria Colpani is a PhD candidate of Philosophy and Gender Studies at the University of Verona and Utrecht University. With a foreword by Paul Gilroy, Professor of American and English Literature at King's College London

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements / Foreword: Europe Otherwise
Paul Gilroy / Introduction: Europe in Transition
Gianmaria Colpani and Sandra Ponzanesi / Part I: Postcolonial Europe and its Discontents / 1. European Racial Triangulation
Anca Parvulescu / 2. EU Migration Policy Towards Africa: Demographic Logics and Colonial Legacies
Peo Hansen and Stefan Jonsson / 3. The Homeless
the Lawyer
and the Cardboard Sign: Charity in Contemporary Europe
Mireille Rosello / 4. Specters of Colonialism: The Anglo-Irish Conflict
Space
and the Body in Steve McQueen's Hunger (2008)
Sarah Fekadu-Uthoff / Part II: Postcolonial Times: Memory and Transition / 5. Hidden Memories: October 17
1961
Charlie Hebdo
and Postcolonial Forgetting
Christine Quinan / 6. Under the Western Gaze: Sexuality and Postsocialist "Transition" in East Europe
Rasa Navickaite / 7. Resentment at the Heart of Europe: Narratives by Afro-Surinamese Postcolonial Migrant Women in the Netherlands
Sabrina Marchetti / Part III: Postcolonial Spaces: Un/Doing Border