Sandra Ponzanesi is Professor of Gender and Postcolonial Studies, Department of Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.Adriano José Habed is a doctoral student in Political Philosophy and Gender Studies at the Department of Human Sciences, University of Verona, Italy, and the Department of Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.

• Preface: Postcolonial Intellectuals: Universal, Specific, or Transversal?Engin Isin / Intervention: Thinking Academic Freedom in Gendered Postcoloniality,Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak / Introduction: Postcolonial Intellectuals, European Publics, Adriano José Habed and Sandra Ponzanesi / PART 1: Portraits of the Intellectual / 1. Antonio Gramsci and Anti-colonial Internationalism, Neelam Srivastava / 2. Talking about a Revolution. C.L.R. James and Frantz Fanon, Jamila M. H. Mascat / 3. Edward Said’s Enduring Legacy: Disciplining Criticism, Pal Ahluwalia / 4. Feminisms of Colour in the Company of Stuart Hall, Yasmin Gunaratnam / PART 2: Reinterpretations and Dialogues / 5. Before Postcolonialism: Shakib Arslan’s Response to Colonialism in the Interwar Years, Mehdi Sajid / 6. Hannah Arendt and Postcolonial Thought, Christopher J. Lee / 7. Jacques Derrida’s Three Moments of Postcoloniality and the Challenge of Settler Colonialism, Muriam Haleh Davis / 8. Rosi Braidotti and Paul Gilroy: Questions of Memory and

Here postcolonial perspectives sequence into a heterogeneity of cultural and political practices that rework the archives of the West in another key, critically challenging the continuing colonial formation of thepresent.