Full Description
Revived by the global resonance of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020, this book adds to the current discussion on the idea of decolonizing Europe. Drawing inspiration from the study of colonialism, postcolonialism and the imperative to decolonize knowledge and practice, the editors bring together a group of scholars approaching these issues through ethnographic inquiry. The volume explores how race, colonial legacies and structural inequality are addressed across diverse European contexts - north, central, eastern and southern - as well as in their entanglements with regions beyond Europe. It offers critical, grounded insights into the possibilities and challenges of decolonial thinking today.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
Foreword: Ending Colonial Complicities: Europe and the Intersectional Struggles for Racial Justice
Annalisa Frisina
Introduction: Decolonizing Europe: Ethnographies of National and Transnational Projects
Patrícia Ferraz de Matos and Livio Sansone
Chapter 1. Decolonizing Europe and the Problem of Neonationalism
Jordan Kiper and Chadra Pittman
Chapter 2. The Measure of Time: Repurposing the Archives, Repatriating Human Remains
Pegi Vail
Chapter 3. People of African Descent and Antiracist Mobilization in Post-Imperial Portugal
Bruno Sena Martins
Chapter 4. Decolonizing Education [in Italy and Portugal] through Arts: Pass the Mic!
Francesca De Luca and Anna Serlenga
Chapter 5. On (De)Colonial Education, Anthropological Knowledge and 'Heritage Digestion': Insights on the History of Anthropology in Portugal
Carmeliza Rosario andEma Pires
Chapter 6. The Kurdish Struggle as an Anticolonial Dynamo: From Nationalist Struggle to Militant Internationalism
José Vicente Mertz
Chapter 7. Rethinking Conflicts: The Cold War Museum in Žemaitija National Park
Vida Savoniakaitė
Chapter 8. Debunking the Colonial Narrative in Belgium: Public Space Decolonization in Brussels and Cultural Objects Restitution to Central African Countries
Axel Mudahemuka Gossiaux
Epilogue: The Future of the Decolonial: Contradictory Tendencies in Europe
Patrícia Ferraz de Matos and Livio Sansone
Index
