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Understanding Europe: The Council for European Studies book series, 30

Towards a Decolonial European Union Studies

Edited by Eva Poɫońska-Kimunguyi

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Published 30 April 2027

About this book

Presents ways in which knowledge produced by postcolonial and decolonial scholarship generates new understandings of Europe and EU

  • Acknowledges and addresses the historical legacies of European colonialism and its ongoing impacts on European society, former colonies, and the global order
  • Explores the ways in which the foundations of European integration of economies, law, politics and societies are entangled in colonial thought and material practices of extraction, exploitation, inequality and racial subordination
  • Brings non-European voices into the story of Europe/EU to learn about their experiences and relations with Europe

Study of the European Union has largely focussed on the institutional and policy instruments of the supranational organization that European states formed after World War II. With predominant narratives of peace and security within and between its members, Europe seeks to turn the page on its colonial past. This book brings a decolonial lens to the constellation of contemporary European power and delineates how the region’s colonial and racialised attitudes and approaches imbue the structures and policies of today’s Union; a mindset that informs both internal policies and institutions as well as interactions with former and currently colonised territories and their people.

An essential resource for students of Europe, who want a critical, historically informed understanding of the role of colonialism and racism in the founding, development and future of the European Union.

Table of contents

About the Book
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
List of Illustrations

Foreword: Legacies of Empire in Europe
Gurminder Bhambra

1. Introduction: European and EU Studies in Conversation with Postcolonial and Decolonial Approaches
Eva Połońska-Kimunguyi

Part 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 Community
Eva Połońska-Kimuguyi
3. Eurafrica and the Unfinished History of Europe’s Colonialism
Peo Hansen and Stefan Jonsson
4. Coloniality of Memory: The Case of the House of European History
Ann-Sophie Van Baeveghem
5. Sovereignty Compromised: The European Community, France and Colonial Continuities in Africa
Patrick Kimunguyi

Part II. EU Institutions
6. Racism without Race: Understanding the Lack of Racial Diversity within the EU Institutions
Tina Magazzini and Sahizer Samuk

Part III. EU Policies & Action
7. Racial Capitalism and the Political Economy of European Integration: Rethinking the European Project Beyond Liberal Narratives
Emmanuel Achiri and Buhari Shehu Miapyen
8. Conjunctures of Black and Anti-Racist Struggles against Policing in Europe
Vanessa Thompson
9. De-colonising Religion, The Muslim Question and the European Union
Tahir Rashid
10. The Limits of Liberal Racial Politics: the intertwined Nature of ‘Eurowhiteness’ and Anti-Roma Racism
Simina Dragoș
11. Indigenous Realities in the European Green Transition: Implications for Sámi and Inuit Communities
Kristina Sehlin Macneil and Christina Storm Mienna
12. Europe, Elsewhere: Colonial Entanglements in Anguilla, New Caledonia, and Mayotte
Fabio Santos and Manuela Boatcă
13. Decolonising the EU-Development Aid in a Postcolonial World
Olukayode Faleye and Ozekhome Igechi
14. Dismantling Europe’s Green Colonialism: For a just Energy Transition in the Arab Region
Hamza Hamouchene and Johanne Fontaine
15. Beyond ‘Conflict’: Settler Colonialism and the Limits of European Scholarship on Israel-Palestine
Maryam Dharas and Eva Połońska-Kimunguyi

Afterword
Hans Kundnani

About the author

Eva Poɫońska-Kimunguyi

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.

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