Introduction. (June 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Krobb, Florian
• Other Names: Krobb Florian guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Journal of European studies. Volume 47:Number 2(2017)
• Page Start: 105
• Page End: 110
• Publication Date: 2017-06
• Subjects: Europe -- historicity -- post-coloniality -- post-imperialism -- theory; 940.05
• DOI: 10.1177/0047244117700069
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0047-2441

Abstract

This introduction sketches some of the challenges in applying post-colonial theory to conditions and discourses of intra-European coloniality, post-coloniality, post-imperialism and post-dependency. It argues for a sensitive blending of the study of the historically specific with a conceptual approach which acknowledges patterns and brings general dynamics into view. The seven articles collected in this issue of the Journal of European Studies demonstrate a concomitant plurality of approaches to a wide range of exemplary scenarios (from Baltic positionings under the conditions of multidirectional hegemony to German and Polish/Ukrainian post-imperialisms) and on a variety of discursive sites (from memory politics to urban development).