Decolonising Europe? : popular responses to the end of empire / [edited by] Berny Sèbe and Matthew G. Stanard.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sèbe, Berny, editor.

Stanard, Matthew G., editor.

Series:

Empires and the making of the modern world, 1650-2000.

Empires and the making of the modern world, 1650-2000

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Collective memory--Europe.

Collective memory.

Postcolonialism--Social aspects.

Postcolonialism.

Decolonization--History.

Decolonization.

Europe--Colonies--Social conditions--20th century.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (299 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

Summary:

"Decolonising Europe? Popular Responses to the End of Empire offers a new paradigm to understand decolonisation in Europe by showing how it was fundamentally a fluid process of fluxes and refluxes involving not only transfers of populations, ideas and socio-cultural practices across continents but also complex intra-European dynamics at a time of political convergence following the Treaty of Rome. Decolonisation was neither a process of sudden, rapid changes to European cultures nor one of cultural inertia, but a development marked by fluidity, movement, and dynamism. Rather than being a static process where Europe's (former) metropoles and their peoples 'at home' reacted to the end of empire 'out there', decolonisation translated into new realities for Europe's cultures, societies, and politics as flows, ebbs, fluxes, and cultural refluxes reshaped both former colonies and former metropoles. The volume's contributors set out a carefully crafted panorama of decolonisation's sequels in European popular culture by means of in-depth studies of specific cases and media, analysing the interwoven meaning, momentum, memory, material culture, and migration patterns of the end of empire across eight major European countries. The revised meaning of 'decolonisation' that emerges will challenge scholars in several fields, and the panorama of new research in the book charts paths for new investigations. The question mark in the title asks not only how European cultures experienced the 'end of empire' but also the extent to which this is still a work in progress"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Making sense of the end of empire : fluxes and flows in decolonising Europe? / Berny Sèbe and Matthew G. Stanard

Magna Carta and the end of empire / Amanda Behm

The end of empire and the four nations / John M. MacKenzie

Reverberations of decolonisation : British approaches to governance in post-colonial Africa and the rise of the 'strong men' / Christopher Prior

The semantics of decolonisation : the public debate on the New Guinea question in the Netherlands, 1950-62 / Vincent Kuitenbrouwer

Decolonisation and the press : a path to pluralism in Franco's Spain, ca. 1950-75 / Sasha D. Pack

Afterlives of colonialism in the everyday : street names and the (un)making of imperial debris / Britta Schilling

Passing the point of no return : Italy's regretted end of empire and the Mogadishu Massacre of 1948 / Giuseppe Finaldi

Oases of imperial nostalgia : British and French Desert memories after empire / Berny Sèbe

Questioning Portugal's social cohesion, and preparing post-imperial memory : returned settlers (retornados) and Portuguese society, 1975-80 / Isabel dos Santos Lourenço and Alexander Keese

Ephemera and the dynamics of colonial memory / Charles Forsdick

Domestic museums of decolonisation? Objects, colonial officials, and the afterlives of empire in Britain / Chris Jeppesen and Sarah Longair

Decongolizing Europe? African art and post-colony Belgium / Matthew G. Stanard

Afterword. Diverging experiences of decolonisation / Wm. Roger Louis.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-429-02936-5

0-429-64254-7

9780429029363

OCLC:

1148876214