History and Decolonization - Essays from Southern Europe

History and Decolonization: Essays from Southern Europe takes a fresh approach to world history by integrating the historical experience of Southern Europe into debates on colonialism, racism and patriarchy. To approach Europe from its southern fringes can open new perspectives on cultural decolonization and Eurocentrism; here, author Javier García Fernández focuses on the history of Al-Andalus (in present-day Spain) as a prism for re-interpreting European history along non-Western lines. In pursuit of a postcolonial horizon so important for the field of social sciences in southern Europe, this argument is set against discussion of international hierarchies of power, including contemporary imperialism and neoliberal globalization. This is an important and innovative book. Its fundamental thesis is that, while we need a Europe that looks and listens to the Global South, we also need a South within Europe in order to transform it.

List of contents

Prelude. A Theory and a History for the Decolonisation of Europe - I. Coloniality Thirty Years On: The Past, Present, And Future Of Decolonial Theory - II. Historiography And The Postcolonial Question At The Crossroads Of Postmodernity - III. Historiographyies For Decolonisation. From Subaltern Studies To The Decolonial Turn And Beyond - IV. Dialectics of Coloniality: Geneologies for Thinking Southern Europe - V. Revisiting The Western Question. Towards A Postcolonial Critique From Southern Europe - VI. Al-Andalus From A Postcolonial Perspective: Moving Beyond Medievalism And Arab Studies

Product details

• Authors: Javier Garcia Fernández
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2025
• EAN: 9781636671611
• ISBN: 978-1-63667-161-1
• No. of pages: 106
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 10 mm x 229 mm
• Weight: 262 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Essays, History, Europe, European History, Southern Europe, HISTORY / General, Garcia, HISTORY / Europe / Western, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, HISTORY / Study & Teaching, Colonialism & imperialism, Decolonization, Postcolonial Studies, Javier, Colonialism and imperialism, Invasion, conquest and occupation, HISTORY / Europe / Spain, Fernandez, Southern, Decolonial Theory, Al-Ándalus, Decolonize Europe