Towards a Decolonial European Union Studies

Eva Połońska-Kimunguyi is a Fellow in International Migration and European Politics at the European Instiute, London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research explores violence, racism, imperialism and coloniality of the EU southern border.

• About the BookAcknowledgementsList of ContributorsList of IllustrationsForeword: Legacies of Empire in EuropeGurminder Bhambra1. Introduction: European and EU Studies in Conversation with Postcolonial and Decolonial ApproachesEva Połońska-KimunguyiPart I. Colonial Origins of EU Integration: History, Memory and Theory 2. Race and Empire in the Liberal International Order: The Rise and Role of the European CommunityEva Połońska-Kimuguyi3. Eurafrica and the Unfinished History of Europe’s ColonialismPeo Hansen and Stefan Jonsson4. Coloniality of Memory: The Case of the House of European HistoryAnn-Sophie Van Baeveghem5. Sovereignty Compromised: The European Community, France and Colonial Continuities in AfricaPatrick KimunguyiPart II. EU Institutions 6. Racism without Race: Understanding the Lack of Racial Diversity within the EU InstitutionsTina Magazzini and Sahizer SamukPart III. EU Policies & Action 7. Racial Capitalism and the Political Economy of European Integration: Rethinking the European Project Beyond Liberal NarrativesEmmanuel Achiri and Buhari Shehu Miapyen8. Conjunctures of Black and Anti-Racist Struggles against Policing in EuropeVanessa Thompson9. De-colonising Religion, The Muslim Question and the European UnionTahir Rashid10. The Limits of Liberal Racial Politics: the intertwined Nature of ‘Eurowhiteness’ and Anti-Roma RacismSimina Dragoș 11. Indigenous Realities in the European Green Transition: Implications for Sámi and Inuit CommunitiesKristina Sehlin Macneil and Christina Storm Mienna12. Europe, Elsewhere: Colonial Entanglements in Anguilla, New Caledonia, and MayotteFabio Santos and Manuela Boatcă13. Decolonising the EU-Development Aid in a Postcolonial WorldOlukayode Faleye and Ozekhome Igechi14. Dismantling Europe’s Green Colonialism: For a just Energy Transition in the Arab RegionHamza Hamouchene and Johanne Fontaine15. Beyond ‘Conflict’: Settler Colonialism and the Limits of European Scholarship on Israel-PalestineMaryam Dharas and Eva Połońska-KimunguyiAfterwordHans Kundnani