Postcolonial Europe

'Postcolonial Europe' is a major cross-disciplinary project organised principally around an international research network with Dutch, German, Italian, Danish and British partners. The network was funded initially by the AHRC and now by the NWO, its Dutch equivalent. Its work led most recently to a special 2011 issue of the postcolonial-oriented journal Moving Worlds, with contributions from Zygmunt Bauman, Etienne Balibar and Paul Gilroy, among others. 'Postcolonial Europe' enquires into Europe's internally differentiated colonial pasts and their combined impact on the globalised present; adopting Bauman's and Gilroy's double rhetoric of Europe, it aims to account for the unmaking of Europe as a space of exemplarity, exception and privilege, but also the remaking of Europe as a convivial space of inclusiveness, transcultural ferment and openness to the rest of the world.

For further information on the 'Postcolonial Europe' project contact Professor Graham Huggan (g.d.m.huggan@leeds.ac.uk) or see news and events for updates. 

Scholars associated with this project:

Prof. Dr. Iain Chambers (Istituto Orientale, Naples)
Prof. Dr. Paolo de Medeiros (University of Utrecht)
Prof. Dr. Tobias Doering (University of Munich)
Prof. Paul Gilroy (LSE)
Prof. Graham Huggan (University of Leeds)
Dr. Lars Jensen (University of Roskilde)
Dr. Cordula Lemke (Free University, Berlin)
Prof. John McLeod (University of Leeds)
Dr. Sandra Ponzanesi (University of Utrecht)
Prof. Max Silverman (University of Leeds)