Postcolonial Europe

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。然而，现在越来越强调的是殖民主义对欧洲大都市文化实践的后果，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。通过汇集来自欧洲三个不同地区从事后殖民研究跨学科领域的知名学者和年轻学者，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，同时也展示这些起源是如何创造性地转变的。网络将首先围绕“西方主义”的主题组织起来，这些消极的态度和代表性机制，在欧洲内外都有证据，通过这些态度和代表性机制，对欧洲价值观（以及一般的西方价值观）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境内外的当代后世俗气候，因此，第一次关于欧洲的西方维度以及欧洲可能受到的“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。这些研讨会的目标是远远超越欧洲受到威胁的反动观念，这是西方主义的一些过于僵化的概念（例如“对西方的战争”）所依赖的观念。在超越僵化的西方和东方概念的过程中，该网络旨在为从对欧洲社会、文化和政治形式的非二元理解的角度来看待后殖民时代的欧洲开辟一个空间。该网络的好处将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；为该领域当前的研究提供一种欧洲形式的辩论；并建立一个由更年轻、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。这个网络将提供一个初步的平台，从这个平台上进一步发展对后殖民欧洲的研究，将其作为一种更微妙但仍然至关重要的研究，替代对西方和东方、西方和非西方的二元理解。

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.