Postcolonial Europe

后殖民欧洲

• 批准号: AH/F020023/1
• 负责人: Graham Huggan
• 金额: $ 2.92万
• 依托单位: University of Leeds
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2008 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FF020023%2F1
• 关键词: Postcolonial; Europe

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.

直到最近，在比较后殖民研究领域所做的大部分工作都集中在欧洲的前殖民边缘地区。然而，人们现在越来越重视殖民主义对欧洲大都市文化实践的后续影响，以及欧洲内部那些可以被分析为直接或间接形式的殖民权力的权力关系。通过将来自欧洲三个不同地区的在后殖民研究的跨学科领域工作的成熟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，将该领域带回到其欧洲知识起源，但也展示这些起源是如何创造性地转变的。该网络将首先围绕“西方主义”这一主题进行组织，这些消极的态度和代表机制，在欧洲内外都很明显，通过这些机制，对欧洲价值观（以及整个西方价值观）的怀疑和怨恨被系统地动员和部署。对西方主义的深入分析需要进一步了解欧洲边界内外的当代后世俗气候，因此第一个关于欧洲西方维度的研讨会，以及欧洲可以说受到的“反西方主义”，将由第二个更具体地安排，以研究西方主义，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要远远超越一个受威胁的欧洲，一个概念，一些不太灵活的概念，西方主义（如作为一个“对西方的战争”）依赖的反动概念。在超越西方和东方的僵化概念的过程中，该网络的目标是从对欧洲社会、文化和政治形式的非二元理解的角度来审视后殖民欧洲，该网络的好处是加强在欧洲三个不同地点工作的该领域个别学者的工作;为该领域当前研究的辩论提供一种欧洲形式;并建立一个年轻的网络，以及更成熟的学者谁可以合作，支持和帮助发展彼此的工作。该网络将提供一个初步平台，从这个平台上进一步研究后殖民欧洲，作为一个更微妙的，但仍然是关键的，替代西方和东方，西方和非西方的二元理解。

项目成果

Postcolonial Europe

后殖民欧洲

• 期刊: A Journal of Transcultural Writings
• 作者: Graham Huggan (Author)