Postcolonial Europe

直到最近，后殖民时期比较研究领域的大部分工作都集中在欧洲的前殖民周边地区。然而，现在越来越重视殖民主义对欧洲大都市文化实践的后遗症，以及可以分析为直接或间接殖民权力形式的欧洲内部的权力关系。通过将来自欧洲三个不同地区、在后殖民研究跨学科领域工作的知名学者和年轻学者聚集在一起，该网络旨在建立后殖民欧洲的参数，将该领域带回其欧洲知识起源，并展示这些起源是如何创造性地转变的。该网络将首先围绕在欧洲内外都明显可见的“西方主义”这一主题，那些消极态度和代表性机制，系统地动员和部署对欧洲价值观(以及整个西方价值观)的怀疑和怨恨。对西方主义的深入分析需要进一步了解当代欧洲境内和境外的后世俗气候，因此，第一次关于欧洲的西方层面以及可以说是欧洲所遭受的反西方主义的研讨会之后，将会有第二次研讨会，更具体地安排来研究西方主义、东方主义和当代后世俗世界之间的关系。这些研讨会的目的是远远超越欧洲受到威胁的反动概念，这是一些过于僵化的西方主义概念(例如，对西方的战争)所依赖的概念。通过超越西方和东方僵化的概念，该网络旨在清理一个空间，通过对欧洲社会、文化和政治形式的非二元理解来看待后殖民时代的欧洲。该网络的好处将是加强在欧洲三个不同地点工作的这一领域的个人学者的工作；为该领域当前的研究提供一个欧洲形式的辩论；并建立一个由更年轻的和更成熟的学者组成的网络，他们可能会合作、支持和帮助发展彼此的工作。该网络将提供一个初始平台，在此基础上进一步研究后殖民时代的欧洲，将其作为对西方和东方、西方和非西方的二元理解的更微妙但仍至关重要的替代方案。

Until recently, most work done in the field of comparative postcolonial studies focused on Europe's ex-colonial peripheries. Increasing emphasis is now being placed, however, on the after-effects of colonialism on European metropolitan cultural practice, and on those power relations within Europe that can be analysed as direct or indirect forms of colonial power. By bringing together both established and younger scholars from three different European locations working in the interdisciplinary field of postcolonial studies, the network would aim to establish the parameters of postcolonial Europe, bringing the field back to its European intellectual origins but also showing how these origins have been creatively transformed.The network would be organised in the first instance around the topic of 'Occidentalism', those negative attitudes and representational mechanisms, in evidence within as well as outside Europe, by which suspicion and resentment of European values (and Western values in general) are systematically mobilised and deployed. An in-depth analysis of Occidentalism requires a further understanding of the contemporary post-secular climate both within and beyond Europe's borders, so a first workshop on the Western dimensions of Europe, and the 'anti-Westernism' to which Europe has arguably been subjected, would be followed by a second, arranged more specifically to look at the relationship between Occidentalism, Orientalism and the contemporary post-secular world. These workshops aim to go well beyond the reactionary notion of a threatened Europe, a notion on which some, unduly inflexible concepts of Occidentalism (e.g. as a 'war on the West') depend. In moving beyond the ossified concepts of Occident and the Orient, the network aims to clear a space to look at postcolonial Europe in terms of a non-binary understanding of European social, cultural and political forms.The benefits of the network would be to strengthen the work of individual scholars in the field working at three different European locations; to provide a European format for debate about current research in the field; and to establish a network of younger, as well as more established scholars who might collaborate, support and help develop each other's work. The network would provide an initial platform from which to develop further research on postcolonial Europe as a more nuanced, but still critical, alternative to binary understandings of the Occident and the Orient, the West and the non-West.