Europe, Where Are We Now?

Authors

  • Iain Chambers University of Naples

Abstract

This short essay seeks to consider the present crisis of Europe in the light of its constitutive colonial formation. The argument is made that such a past is not over; rather it continues to shape the polity and culture of contemporary Europe. Both institutional and informal responses to modern day migration have rapidly revealed the facility with which that archive can be activated. Excavating and traversing that same archive with a diverse critical compass, and in the company of the contemporary postcolonial arts, makes the case for another Europe.

Author Biography

  • Iain Chambers, University of Naples

    Iain Chambers teaches Cultural, Postcolonial, and Mediterranean Studies at the University of Naples, “Orientale.” He is the author of Border Dialogues: Journeys in Postmodernity (1990), Migrancy, Culture, Identity (1994), Culture After Humanism (2001), and more recently Mediterranean Crossings: The Politics of an Interrupted Modernity (2008), and Mediterraneo Blues: Musiche, malinconia postcoloniale, pensieri marittimi (2012).

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Published

2026-05-04

Issue

Vol. 29 No. 1 (2016): The State of Europe

Section

Main Section

License

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

How to Cite

Chambers, I. (2026). Europe, Where Are We Now?. FRAME, Journal of Literary Studies, 29(1), 11-22. https://platform.openjournals.nl/FRAME/article/view/27372