Postcolonial Europe

'Here Comes the Rest.' A Sociological Perspective on Postcolonial Rethinking of the 'Second World'

Friday, 15 May 2009 21:58 Magdalena Kania

In January 2008 the netmagazine Eurozine reprinted from the French Esprit an interview with Achille Mbembe entitled 'What is postcolonial thinking[1]?' A French historian and theorist, Mbembe suggests that postcolonial thought originates in multiple sources, such as the anti-imperialist tradition, subaltern and globalization

Last Updated on Wednesday, 20 January 2010 21:44 Read more...

Western ‘Eurasianism’ and the ‘New Eastern Europe’: Discourse of Exclusion*

Friday, 02 December 2011 13:54 Mykola Riabchuk

The term ‘Eurasia’ has many meanings but all of them can be subsumed under two main rubrics. The first is purely geographical, referring to a formidable landmass stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific and considering Europe and Asia as a single continental entity, with a former as a peninsula of the latter. The second meaning is much more versatile but in all its multi-facet representations it refers typically to a Greater Russia, to some space dominated historically by the Russian Empire and its Soviet (and post-Soviet) reincarnation.

Last Updated on Friday, 23 December 2011 14:27 Read more...

In Search of Dracula or, Cultures in Dialogue

Wednesday, 20 January 2010 16:24 Lars Kleberg

In Dracula, Bram Stoker's famous Victorian horror novel, the young British lawyer Jonathan Harker sets out on a journey eastward. When the hero crosses the Danube andenters Transylvania in order to finalize a contract with a local count on the purchase of a piece of real estate in London, he notes a number of disquieting details.

Last Updated on Saturday, 15 October 2011 23:08 Read more...

Russian Projects of Europeanism and the Polish Factor (from the Middle Ages to the Age of Nationalisms)

Sunday, 25 December 2011 20:45 Alexander V. Lipatov

The historical paths followed by Poles and Russians towards Europe-from a common geographical space (as it appeared in Antiquity) to a common civilizational space (which took shape as various ethnic groups adopted the universal values of Christianity) were distinctly different. And it was this that determined the particularity both of the way in which they expressed universal cultural values and the way in which they understood their own identity as offshoots of those values, thus influencing the notions they had of each other as neighbours.

Last Updated on Monday, 26 December 2011 07:48 Read more...

The Discourse of Europe and the Search for a European Identity

Friday, 12 March 2010 20:31 Hayden White

The current "discourse of Europe" features an effort to "identify" a Europe that is good and noble, capable of serving as a spiritual basis for a new and (let us not fear the term) post-modernist economic system based on consumerism, multinational capitalism, and commitment to what is euphemistically called "the free market". This quest for a Europe that is good and noble and therefore worthy to provide the ethos of a new kind of community (at once democratic and cultivated, both socialistic and capitalistic, Christian and humanistic, scientific and pious) is motivated in large part by the desire to redeem the Europe of the fathers from the onus of guilt born of an awareness that "Europe" had been responsible for the new forms of social violence spawned in the "rotten twentieth century" (Timothy Garton Ash’s term).

Last Updated on Saturday, 03 December 2011 14:56 Read more...

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