Europe and Its Shadows

Coloniality after Empire

Hamid Dabashi

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Pluto Press
20 October 2019

European history; National liberation & independence, post-colonialism; Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies; Politics & government; Nationalism

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.

By: Hamid Dabashi
Imprint: Pluto Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 215mm, Width: 135mm,
Weight: 293g
ISBN: 9780745338408
ISBN 10: 0745338402
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 20 October 2019
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Hamid Dabashi is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York. He is a founding member of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, as well as a founding member of the Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia University. Most recently he is the author of Europe and Its Shadows (Pluto, 2019), Brown Skin, White Masks (Pluto, 2011) and Can Non-Europeans Think? (Zed, 2015).

Reviews for Europe and Its Shadows: Coloniality after Empire

'A passionate and erudite reflection on the aftermath of Europe. Demonstrating the limits of the frequent, yet reactionary, defenses of Europe from left and right, Dabashi invites us to consider the geographies of imagination, thought, and praxis that appear behind the shadows of capitalism and coloniality. A crucial text to advance post- and decolonial thinking across the Global South' -- Nelson Maldonado-Torres, author of 'Against War: Views from the Underside of Modernity' 'Where 'Discourse on Colonialism' denounces what is perpetrated in the name of Europe, this book raises a more radical question: What is the name 'Europe'?' -- Souleymane Bachir Diagne, author of 'Postcolonial Bergson'