Decolonizing Europe

Patrícia Ferraz de Matos is an Integrated Researcher at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Education and Development Studies (CeiED) at Lusófona University since 2026. She was an Assistant Researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon (ULisboa) (2013–2025), and is a member of the teaching staff of the PhD Programme in Anthropology at ULisboa since 2013. She is an Associate Editor of the Anthropological Journal of European Cultures (2020–present), Coordinator of the Europeanist Network of the EASA (2020–2026), Deputy Director of Análise Social (2021–2026), and, since 2019, corresponding member in Portugal of HOAN (History of Anthropology Network, EASA). She is Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, elected in 2019, and since 2025 is Secretary-Elect of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe (SAE, American Anthropological Association). She is the author of The Colours of the Empire (Berghahn 2013 [Victor de Sá Prize of Contemporary History 2005]) and Anthropology, Nationalism and Colonialism (Berghahn 2023).

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsList of Acronyms and AbbreviationsForeword: Ending Colonial Complicities: Europe and the Intersectional Struggles for Racial JusticeAnnalisa FrisinaIntroduction: Decolonizing Europe: Ethnographies of National and Transnational ProjectsPatrícia Ferraz de Matos and Livio SansoneChapter 1. Decolonizing Europe and the Problem of NeonationalismJordan Kiper and Chadra PittmanChapter 2. The Measure of Time: Repurposing the Archives, Repatriating Human RemainsPegi VailChapter 3. People of African Descent and Antiracist Mobilization in Post-Imperial PortugalBruno Sena MartinsChapter 4. Decolonizing Education [in Italy and Portugal] through Arts: Pass the Mic!Francesca De Luca and Anna SerlengaChapter 5. On (De)Colonial Education, Anthropological Knowledge and ‘Heritage Digestion’: Insights on the History of Anthropology in PortugalCarmeliza Rosario and Ema PiresChapter 6. The Kurdish Struggle as an Anticolonial Dynamo: From Nationalist Struggle to Militant InternationalismJosé Vicente MertzChapter 7. Rethinking Conflicts: The Cold War Museum in Žemaitija National ParkVida SavoniakaitėChapter 8. Debunking the Colonial Narrative in Belgium: Public Space Decolonization in Brussels and Cultural Objects Restitution to Central African CountriesAxel Mudahemuka GossiauxEpilogue: The Future of the Decolonial: Contradictory Tendencies in EuropePatrícia Ferraz de Matos and Livio SansoneIndex

"This book is an indispensable and invaluable resource to researchers and practitioners working in the field of postcolonial studies, European politics and racial justice, and social movements. It will be rewarding to a cover-to-cover reading, wherein its cumulative argument is inscribed, and to a discriminating reading in which each chapter is a self-contained empirical contribution." Reviews in Anthropology“This is a very important contribution for those dedicated to decolonial studies… one of the highlights of the book is the diversity of experiences and context examined by researchers of various nationalities and academic, institutional and professional backgrounds.” • Fatima Cecchetto, National School of Public Health of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation