1st Edition

Postcolonial Europe

By Lars Jensen Copyright 2020
182 Pages
by Routledge

182 Pages
by Routledge

182 Pages
by Routledge

This book presents an overview of the direct and indirect ways in which Europe continues to be influenced by its entrenched postcolonial condition. Exploring the notion of postcolonial Europe as it characterises a Europe caught at a number of crossroads, it considers the distinctly European features of a range of global crises by which Europe is beset, relating to migration, nationalism,... Read more

Introduction

1. Historicising postcolonial Europe

2. Postcolonial Europe regionalised

3. The nation-empires and their legacy

4. Postcolonial Europe in the time of crisis

Biography

Lars Jensen is Associate Professor at Cultural Encounters in the Department of Communication and Arts, at Roskilde University, Denmark. He is the author of Postcolonial Denmark: Nation Narration in a Crisis Ridden Europe and co-editor of Postcolonial Europe: Comparative Reflections after the Empires, Crisis in the Nordic Countries and Beyond and Whiteness and Postcolonialism in the Nordic Region.