Postcolonial Transitions in Europe

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

Postcolonial Transitions in Europe is an extremely important and timely intervention into academic and public debates around the continent’s identity, its past, present and future. The volume offers rigorous and original scholarship that draws on a broad range of sources from popular culture to migration policies and ethnographic research. Its authors demonstrate how the concept of postcoloniality can be mobilized to productively address legacies of violence and inequality that have so far remained woefully undertheorized, while also pointing to more equitable ways for Europe to define itself and its place in the world. The accessible and thought-provokinginterrogation of issues that will only become more pressing in the future make thisan indispensible resource for anyone interested in what a postcolonial Europe might be.

• 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