Shadows of Empire in the European Union

Muller, Karis

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“…The overseas empires of today's EU states such as Britain, the Netherlands, France, and Belgium had been many times larger than the current size of their territories. The loss of colonial empires after the Second World War therefore significantly fueled the political impetus behind Source: European Commission, Audiovisual Services, public domain https://audiovisual.ec.europa.eu/en/ photo/P-010281~2F00-3 the creation of the European Economic Community, the EU's predecessor, to which the contribution of remaining colonies was considered decisive Jonsson, 2011, 2014;Muller, 2001). Upon its founding in 1957, the European Economic Community included not just Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and West Germany, but also most of their colonial possessions, officially labeled 'overseas countries and territories', the same category used today for the remaining colonies.…”

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Thinking Europe Otherwise: Lessons from the Caribbean

Boatcă

2020

Current Sociology

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The article makes a case for Europe as a creolized space, or Europe Otherwise. It argues that, in order to account for both the transregional entanglements and the internal hierarchies that European colonialism and imperialism have produced since at least the sixteenth century, we need to unlearn received notions of Europe as an unmarked category; and that theoretical and empirical lessons from the Caribbean are central to relearning Europe differently. To conceive of Europe as a creolized space thus means to draw attention to the decisive shifts that its colonial possessions operate in both its historical legacies and its present borders when consistently taken into account. Such reconceptualization entails a simultaneous creolization of theory so as to reinscribe into sociological thought the experiences of peoples and regions racialized as non-European, non-Western, and non-White alongside the multiple entanglements between Europe and its colonies. Drawing on Caribbean perspectives on creolization, I first discuss how creolizing Europe contributes to countering the definition power of ahistorical and unmarked categories. Subsequently, I propose to rethink Europe as a political, cultural, economic, and discursive formation from its current colonial borders in South America and the Caribbean Sea. Finally, I argue that focusing on Europe’s colonial possessions in the Caribbean today and their corresponding geographical referent, Caribbean Europe, is one way to effectively creolize established understandings of Europe’s colonial history as a thing of the past, of a white Western European identity as the norm, and of the European Union as confined to continental Europe. Recent crises in the Caribbean – from the 2017 hurricanes to Brexit – are used as a magnifying glass in order to make Europe’s ongoing colonial entanglements theoretically and politically visible.

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Thinking Europe Otherwise: Lessons from the Caribbean

Boatcă

2020

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Stable Core, Shifting Periphery? The European Union as an Emerging Inwards-Outwards Governing Empire

Gravier

2015

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The Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), created in 1992 and directed by Professor Brigid Laffan, aims to develop inter-disciplinary and comparative research on the major issues facing the process of European integration, European societies and Europe's place in 21 st century global politics. The Centre is home to a large post-doctoral programme and hosts major research programmes, projects and data sets, in addition to a range of working groups and ad hoc initiatives. The research agenda is organised around a set of core themes and is continuously evolving, reflecting the changing agenda of European integration, the expanding membership of the European Union, developments in Europe's neighbourhood and the wider world.

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Shadows of Empire in the European Union

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Thinking Europe Otherwise: Lessons from the Caribbean

Thinking Europe Otherwise: Lessons from the Caribbean

Stable Core, Shifting Periphery? The European Union as an Emerging Inwards-Outwards Governing Empire

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