Sandra Ponzanesi is Professor of Gender and Postcolonial Studies at the Department of Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University.Gianmaria Colpani is a PhD candidate of Philosophy and Gender Studies at the University of Verona and Utrecht University.With a foreword by Paul Gilroy, Professor of American and English Literature at King's College London

Acknowledgements / Foreword: Europe Otherwise, Paul Gilroy / Introduction: Europe in Transition, Gianmaria Colpani and Sandra Ponzanesi / Part I: Postcolonial Europe and its Discontents / 1. European Racial Triangulation, Anca Parvulescu / 2. EU Migration Policy Towards Africa: Demographic Logics and Colonial Legacies, Peo Hansen and Stefan Jonsson / 3. The Homeless, the Lawyer, and the Cardboard Sign: Charity in Contemporary Europe, Mireille Rosello / 4. Specters of Colonialism: The Anglo-Irish Conflict, Space, and the Body in Steve McQueen's Hunger (2008), Sarah Fekadu-Uthoff / Part II: Postcolonial Times: Memory and Transition / 5. Hidden Memories: October 17, 1961, Charlie Hebdo, and Postcolonial Forgetting, Christine Quinan / 6. Under the Western Gaze: Sexuality and Postsocialist "Transition" in East Europe, Rasa Navickait¿ / 7. Resentment at the Heart of Europe: Narratives by Afro-Surinamese Postcolonial Migrant Women in the Netherlands, Sabrina Marchetti / Part III: Postcolonial Spaces: Un/Doing Borders / 8. Postcolonial Citizenships and the "Refugeeization" of the Workforce: Migrant Agricultural Labor in the Italian Mezzogiorno, Nick Dines and Enrica Rigo / 9. Convivial Crossings in the European South: New Italian Representations, Annalisa Oboe / 10.Import Export - Explorations of Precarity in European Migratory Culture, Brigitte Hipfl / 11."The Other Within": Challenging Borders from the European Periphery, Milica Trakilovi¿ / Part IV: Postcolonial Mediations / 12. Reading The Herald Today: Postcolonial Notes on Journalism and Citizen Media, Bolette B. Blaagaard / 13. Social Media as Contact Zones: Young Londoners Remapping the Metropolis through Digital Media, Koen Leurs / 14. Digital Religion: Rethinking Multicultural Identities through Muslim Women's Online Practices, Eva Midden / 15. Libidinal Cosmopolitanism: The Case of Digital Sexual Encounters in Post-Enlargement Europe, Nicholas Boston / Part V: Postcolonial Europe and Beyond: Cosmopolitan Reflections / 16. The Cosmopolitan Media Cultures of Europe, Anikó Imre / 17. Europe, Cosmopolitanism, and the Postcolonial Biennial, Monica Sassatelli / 18. Cosmopolitanism, Emplacement, and Identity in Recent Postcolonial Literature in German, Dirk Göttsche / 19. Cosmopolitanism from the Margins: Redefining the Idea of Europe through Postcoloniality, Feyzi Baban / About the Contributors / Index

A comparative and multidisciplinary exploration of Europe's colonial past in relation to present multicultural, cosmopolitan and/or neocolonial experiences, assessing political, cultural and mediatized transitions