Decolonising Europe? : Popular Responses to the End of Empire
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The University of Birmingham
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 91374143
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.4324/9780429029363
- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9780367139605
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- April
- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Additional information
- Decolonising Europe results from Sèbe’s efforts to offer a radically new, pan-European and inter-connected interpretation of decolonization. By shifting the emphasis from the periphery to the centre, it conceptualizes the end of empire as a set of far-reaching political, economic and socio-cultural changes amounting to fluxes and refluxes traversing and reshaping European societal landscapes.
From the outset, it was clear that this innovative and Europe-wide approach to decolonization required a team of multilingual scholars offering complementary insights, and Sèbe embarked on the project together with US colleague Stanard, to provide global resonance to the initiative. Sèbe organised an international workshop in Birmingham and Oxford in January 2017, with support from the Past & Present society and the Maison française d’Oxford. This residential event brought together thirty-five scholars from around the globe, under Sèbe’s and Stanard’s intellectual leadership, with a view to extending and consolidating the framework that had shaped the programme, and also curating Decolonising Europe.
Sèbe & Stanard rigorously selected contributors (a mix of mid-career and established scholars) for the book project, on the basis of the complementarity of their approaches and their ability to draw comparative perspectives, and to consider the end of empire as a dynamic process – two central tenets of the book. The co-editors coached every author individually, suggesting methods, potential sources and approaches within the book, before the start of chapter production. Revisions and additions to first drafts were suggested, introducing cross-referencing within the book, and a second and third rounds of editing ensued, guaranteeing overall cohesion around this collective effort, led by the editors, to offer a new understanding of European decolonization. Sèbe co-produced with Stanard the introduction, a key text outlining a historiographical watershed, exemplified his approach in his own chapter and orchestrated the completion of the book from start to finish
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