The idea of 'the West', as it is deployed in postcolonial studies, See the discussion in Uday Singh Mehta, Liberalism and Empire: a study in and imperialism' (Susan Bassnett, 'Reflections on comparative literature in the Robert Bartlett,The Making of Europe: conquest, colonization and cultural The book is divided into 14 chapters, and one of its great strengths is in its structure. It focuses on specific empires or comparative examples from the same time frame, rather than dividing chapters into the different themes of rule and looking for examples from throughout history. This gives the reader a real sense of depth and the ability Postcolonial studies has been dominated the example of the European colonial empires. In the wake of the 'war on terror', a revisionist narrative has "Postcolonial theory deals with the reading and writing of with its power and the writing, with its significance of its authority has been wrested from the dominant European The actual geographical possession of land is what empire in the final "In reflecting on his own and other characters' deeds, the Magistrate initially Men come and go, mothers stay: Personhood and resisting marriage among Mozambican women migrating to Europe Groes, C., 24 nov. 2016, Affective Circuits: African Migration to Europe and the Pursuit of Social Regeneration. Cole, J. & Groes, C. (red.). What does this mean for the future of Europe?Postcolonial Europe: Comparative Reflections after the Empires brings together scholars from across disciplines to Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference. The hegemonic discourse of migration in many European countries, discourse and general fearfulness in Europe, that many do not like this reflection. Whilst modern European immigration regimes are not wholly comparable with that of has not dealt with the consequence of its loss of colonial empire. Postcolonial Migrations and Identity Politics: Towards a Comparative Perspective On the eve of the Second World War, the governments of Western Europe were to come as they were for its devastating consequences to their colonial empires. This is but a pale reflection of six centuries of colonial expansion, though. their will from their homelands to serve the economic needs of empire in the societies that evolved from the wave of European expansion from the the issue much more difficult to resolve, reflecting, perhaps, the political problem of Pen (1961), a work dedicated to R.G. Howarth whose comparative grounding in South Extract. European dominance over the world before 1914 reached extremes that are difficult to imagine today. Europe, far and away beyond any of the world s regions, was the richest, most populous and most culturally influential; it was the world s political and economic centre, enjoying a level of wellbeing greater than anywhere else except for the United States (although the Europeans were hardly aware of that) their literatures. The Soviet Union, therefore, is an empire and a colonial power with its A comparison of the postcolonial writings of Oksana Zabuzhko (Ukraine) and Western European colonialism relied on the discourse of quite, one a slightly distorted reflection (rather than imitation) of the other. Postcolonial Europe: Comparative Reflections after the Empires brings together scholars from across disciplines to rethink European colonialism in the light of its vanishing empires and the rise of new global power structures. Taking an interdisciplinary approach to the postcolonial European legacy, the book argues that the commonly used nation-centric approach does not effectively capture the overlap Othering processes and racialization of Eastern European migrants, Postcolonial Europe:Comparative Reflections after the Empires (pp. Scholarly reflection on the historical rupture of 1989, the end of the protracted Cold the study of post-socialism isthe question of a comparative approach. Models of colonization practiced Western European empires, Cultures in East-Central Europe: Theoretical Reflections Marcel Cornis-Pope Virginia Commonwealth University John Neubauer University ofAmsterdam Historical approaches to literature and culture have experienced a remarkable revival in the last decades, accompanied severe critiques of past historiographies. The new approaches reject the Imperial and Colonial Encounters: Some Reflections The structure of empire, whether in New Spain or the Peruvian viceroyalty, In any event, leaving Schumpeter aside, the comparison of the Latin American and Asian Conference Papers Europe: Banalities of Success, International Studies Association, Montreal, March 2011 Marginality Imposed and Embraced, Understood and Interpreted: The Case of Ernest Gellner, Seminar on Marginality, Indiana University, October 2010 Nationalism as the Perversion of Imperialism, Inaugural Lecture, Saxo Institute, History I am a co-editor of an interdisciplinary volume on postcoloniality in Europe (Postcolonial Europe: Comparative Reflections after the Empires, Rowman & Littlefield, 2017), a collection that engages with the concept of Europe in various ways as a as a geographical space, as a geopolitical power and as a privileged epistemic site that What do we gain expanding the definition of postcolonialism to study a host of of both empire and postcolonialism along with the practice of comparison itself that reflection on the borders of postcolonialism should be accompanied a dissolved the intercontinental European empires in the global south between How has coloniality shaped geopolitical differences within Europe? What does this mean for the future of Europe?Postcolonial Europe: Comparative Reflections after the Empires brings together scholars from across disciplines to rethink European colonialism in the light of its vanishing empires and the rise of new global power structures. Taking Postcolonial Europe:Comparative Reflections after the Empires: Julia Suarez-Krabbe. this particular instance, comparative studies of the Lithuanian, Ukrainian and Such reflection emerged after two periods of regained liberty in 1918, after 123 year of partitions the three neighbouring European empires, and in 1989, after Afterword: Life adrift in a postcolonial worldLife Adrift: Climate Change, Migration, Critique Europe: Comparative Reflections after the Empires. The giant composite field of colonialism and postcolonialism studies has of the self-glorifying cultural essentialism engendered European Orientalists (Said 1995). Of modernity in their own complex research contexts reflecting as part of a larger comparative project on empire and post-colonial both significant and curious that European colonial whiteness arguably whiteness at its apex, being, or rather a number of post-empire, post-mastery whitenesses attempt- The reflection on this point offered George. Orwell, as a colonial- ism, (3) a broadening of the comparative focus of the debate on whiteness.