Postcolonial Intellectuals in Europe

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: Activist Intellectuals: Postcolonial Truth-telling Subjects, Engin Isin / Introduction: Postcolonial Intellectuals, European Publics: Definitions, Figures, Questions, Adriano José Habed and Sandra Ponzanesi / Part 1: Portraits of the Postcolonial Intellectual / 1. Antonio Gramsci and Anti-colonial Internationalism, Neelam Srivastava / 2. Traveling Orientalism: a Discussion of the European Reception of Edward Said, Jamila M. H. Mascat / 3. Simone de Beauvoir, Frantz Fanon, Algeria: Violence and Revolution, Christine Quinan / 4. The Voice of Stuart Hall, the Public Intellectual, Nirmal Puwar / 5. Hannah Arendt and Postcolonial Thought, Christopher Lee / 6. Rosi Braidotti and Paul Gilroy: Questions of Temporality and Cosmopolitan Futures of Europe, Bolette Blagaard / Part II: Artists and Writers as Intellectuals / 7. Salman Rushdie: The Accidental Intellectual in the Mediascape, Ana Mendes / 8. Documentary Practice as Political Intervention: Feminist Film-makers/Artists as Intellectuals, Domitilla Olivieri / 9. 'Not Merely in Symbol but in Reality': Zadie Smith and the Aesthetic of the Intellectual, Jesse van Amelsvoort / 10. Workshop's Fabrik: Independent Black British Filming and the Re-Routing of Diasporic Intellectual Practices, Liliana Ellena / 11. The Curator as a Public Intellectual: Okwui Enwezor, Rosemarie Buikema / 12. Anonymous Urban Disruptions – Exploring Banksy as an Artistic Activist and Social Critic, Tindra Thor / Part III. Intellectual Movements and Networks / 13. Muslim Public Intellectuals in the First Half of the Twentieth Century: A Prelude to Postcolonial Theory, Mehdi Sajid & Umr Ryad / 14. The Indigènes de la République Party as a Collective and Organic Intellectual in France, Gianfranco Rebucini / 15. Hacking the European Refugee Crisis? Data Activism and Human Rights, Koen Leurs / 16. Queer of Colour Critique and the Making of Black Diasporic Movements in Europe, Gianmaria Colpani / 17. Anonymity, Equality and the Political Critique of Postcolonial Europ, Sudeep Dasgupta / 18. Intellectuals in Transition, Sandro Mezzadra / Afterword, Bruce Robbins

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 the present.