Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Postcolonial Transitions in Europe: Contexts, Practices and Politics (Frontiers of the Political) (Frontiers of the Political: Doing International Politics)

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Postcolonial Transitions in EuropeContexts, Practices and PoliticsBy Sandra Ponzanesi, Gianmaria ColpaniRowman & Littlefield International Ltd.Copyright © 2016 Sandra Ponzanesi and Gianmaria ColpaniAll rights reserved.ISBN: 978-1-78348-445-4ContentsAcknowledgments, 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 Toward 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 BORDERS, 8 Postcolonial Citizenships and the "Refugeeization" of the Workforce: Migrant Agricultural Labor in the Italian Mezzogiorno Nick Dines and Enrica Rigo, 9 Convivial Crossings in the European South: New Italian Representations Annalisa Oboe, 10 Import Export — Explorations of Precarity in European Migratory Culture Brigitte Hipfl, 11 "The Other Within": Challenging Borders from the European Periphery Milica Trakilovic, PART IV: POSTCOLONIAL MEDIATIONS, 12 Reading The Herald Today: Postcolonial Notes on Journalism and Citizen Media Bolette B. Blaagaard, 13 Social Media as Contact Zones: Young Londoners Remapping the Metropolis through Digital Media Koen Leurs, 14 Digital Religion: Rethinking Multicultural Identities through Muslim Women's Online Practices Eva Midden, 15 Libidinal Cosmopolitanism: The Case of Digital Sexual Encounters in Post-Enlargement Europe Nicholas Boston, PART V: POSTCOLONIAL EUROPE AND BEYOND: COSMOPOLITAN REFLECTIONS, 16 The Cosmopolitan Media Cultures of Europe Anikó Imre, 17 Europe, Cosmopolitanism, and the Postcolonial Biennial Monica Sassatelli, 18 Cosmopolitanism, Emplacement, and Identity in Recent Postcolonial Literature in German Dirk Göttsche, 19 Cosmopolitanism from the Margins: Redefining the Idea of Europe through Postcoloniality Feyzi Baban, Index, About the Contributors, CHAPTER 1European Racial TriangulationAnca ParvulescuTwo directions have become discernible in postcolonial theory in the last decade, both of which are reflective of attempts to reorient a field perceived to be in crisis. On the one hand, some scholars have called for the field's reconfiguration. As this argument goes, postcolonial theory has run its course in relation to the historical moment of decolonization, and it proves inadequate or insufficient in relation to our global moment. On the other hand, scholars have called for an expansion of postcolonial theory's reach, beyond its original (and much-debated) anchoring in the postcoloniality of South Asia, into Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, China, the Caucasus, and Europe. This chapter constitutes a reflection on this second impulse. What happens to postcolonial theory when it accepts its status as "traveling theory," to borrow Edward Said's phrase? Particularly, what happens to postcolonial theory when the "postcolonial" is conjoined with that which it was initially supposed to decenter, "Europe"? How does postcolonial theory look like once it travels not to the postcolonies in East Europe, where it should have traveled a long time ago, but to the former colonial West European metropolis? If the word "postcolonial" designates various forms of resistance and agentive transformati