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Hamid Dabashi

Europe and Its Shadows

Coloniality after Empire. Sprachen: Englisch. 21,6 cm / 14,0 cm / 1,4 cm ( B/H/T )
EAN 9780745338408
36,40 €
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226 Seiten
Oktober 2019
Pluto Press

Europe has long imagined itself as the centre of the universe, although its precise geographical, cultural and social terrains have always been amorphous. Exploring the fear and fascination associated with the continent as an allegory, Hamid Dabashi considers Europe to be a historically formed barricade against the world.
Frantz Fanon's assessment that 'Europe is literally the creation of the Third World' is still true today; but in more than one sense for the colonial has always been embedded in the capital, and the capital within the colonial. As the condition of coloniality shifts, so have the dividing lines between coloniser and colonised, and this shift calls for a reappraisal of our understanding of nationalism, xenophobia and sectarianism as the dangerous indices of the emerging worlds.
As the far-right populists captivate minds across Europe and Brexit upsets the balance of power in the European Union, this book, from a major scholar of postcolonial thought, is a timely and transformative intervention.

Hamid Dabashi is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Born in Iran, he received a dual Ph.D. in the sociology of culture and Islamic studies from the University of Pennsylvania, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University. Dabashi has written and edited many books, including Iran, the Green Movement and the USA and The Arab Spring, as well as numerous chapters, essays, articles and book reviews. He is an internationally renowned cultural critic, whose writings have been translated into numerous languages.
Dabashi has been a columnist for the Egyptian Al-Ahram Weekly for over a decade, and is a regular contributor to Al Jazeera and CNN. He has been a committed teacher for nearly three decades and is also a public speaker, a current affairs essayist, a staunch anti-war activist and the founder of Dreams of a Nation. He has four children and lives in New York with his wife, the Iranian-Swedish feminist scholar and photographer Golbarg Bashi.

Acknowledgments
Introduction-What's in a Word: "Europe"?
1. Europe: A Mobile Army of Metaphors
2. Europe, Shadows, Coloniality, Empire
3. Whence and Wherefore "Europe"?
4. Europe and its Shadows
5. The Postcolonial Paradox
6. Europe: The Indefinite Jest
7. Mapping beyond the Postcolonial Artworld
8. Is Peace Possible? Conclusion-Wherefore Should We Stand in the Plague of Custom and Permit?
Notes
Index