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Study of the European Union has largely focused on the institutional and policy instruments of the supranational organization that European states formed after the Second World War. With predominant narratives of peace and security within and between its members, Europe seeks to turn the page on its colonial past. This book brings a decolonial lens to the constellation of contemporary European power and delineates how the region’s colonial and racialized attitudes and approaches imbue the structures and policies of today’s Union. A mindset that informs both internal policies and institutions as well as interactions with former and currently colonized territories and their people.
This is an essential resource for students of Europe, who want a critical, historically informed understanding of the role of colonialism and racism in the founding, development and future of the European Union.
Eva Poɫońska-Kimunguyi is a Fellow in International Migration and European Politics at the European Institute, London School of Economics.
Foreword: A Decolonial Project for Europe
Gurminder Bhambra
Introduction: What can European Union Studies learn from post/decolonial approaches?
Eva Polonska
1. Race and Empire in the Liberal International Order: The rise of the European Community
Eva Polonska
2. Unfinished Histories: Eurafrica, the European Union and Colonialism
Peo Hansen and Stefan Jonsson
3. The European Economic Community’s Colonial Roots: The Coloniality of Memory and Perception Building
Ann-Sophie Van-Baeveghem
4. Sovereignty Compromised: The European Community, France and Colonial Continuities in Africa
Patrick Kimunguyi
5. Racism without Race: Understanding the lack of racial diversity within the EU institutions
Tina Magazzini and Sahizer Samuk
6. Racial Capitalism and the Political Economy of European Integration: Rethinking the European Project Beyond Liberal Narratives
Emmanuel Achiri and Buhari Shehu
7. EU Free Movement of Persons and the Circulation of the Post-colonial Subject
Janine Silga
8. Conjunctures of Black Struggles against Policing in Europe
Vanessa Thompson
9. Decolonising Religion, the Muslim Question and the European Union
Tahir Rashid
10. The limits of liberal racial politics: the intertwined nature of ‘Eurowhiteness’ and anti-Roma racism
Simina Dragos
11. The European Green Transition and Impacts for Indigenous Sámi and Inuit Communities
Kristina Sehlin Macneil and Christina Storm Mienna
12. Europe, Elsewhere: Colonial Entanglements in Anguilla, New Caledonia, and Mayotte
Fabio Santos and Manuela Boatcă
13. Decolonizing the EU-Development Aid in a Postcolonial World
Olukayode Faleye and Ozekhome Igechi
14. Dismantling Europe’s green colonialism: For a just energy transition in the Arab region
Hamza Hamouchene and Johanne Fontaine
15. Challenging Research Tropes on the European Union and the settler-colonial project in Palestine
Maryam Dharas and Eva Polonska
Afterword
Diamond Ashiagbor