The critical essays in this volume reflect the duality of postcolonial Europe as, on the one hand, a site of rising xenophobia and exclusion, and of convivial inclusiveness and transcultural aperture on the other.
Contents
EDITORIAL
Graham Huggan
ARTICLES
Zygmunt Bauman, The Triple Challenge
Étienne Balibar, Ideas of Europe: Civilization and Constitution
Paul Gilroy, Shameful History: The Social Life of Races and the Postcolonial Archive
Simon Glendinning, 'Europe, for example'
Luisa Passerini, The Ethics of European Memory: What is to be Done?
Max Silverman, Hybrid Memory in the City
Sandra Ponzanesi, Europe Adrift: Rethinking Borders, Bodies, and
Citizenship from the Mediterranean
Cordula Lemke, Contesting Europe, Provincializing the World
Margaret Fetzer, Beyond the Textual Line: Walter Scott’s Postponing and
Post-scripting of ‘Authentic’ Scottishness
Paulo de Medeiros, A Failure of the Imagination? Questions for a
Post-imperial Europe
John McLeod, No End to Europe? Connecting Caledonias