Creolizing Transylvania: Notes on Coloniality and Inter-imperiality

Manuela Boatcă is professor of sociology with a focus on macrosociology and head of school of the Global Studies Programme at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Germany. Her current research is focused on the commodification of citizenship, coloniality and inter-imperiality, and Europe’s current colonial possessions in the Caribbean. She is author of Global Inequalities beyond Occidentalism (2016), coeditor of Decolonizing European Sociology: Transdisciplinary Approaches (2010) and of the special issue of Current Sociology on “Dynamics of Inequalities in a Global Perspective.”

Anca Parvulescu is professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. Her research and teaching interests include international modernism, literary and critical theory, and gender and feminist studies. She is the author of Laughter: Notes on a Passion (2010) and The Traffic in Women’s Work: East European Migration and the Making of Europe (2014).