Eurafrica Incognita: The Colonial Origins of the European Union
Peo Hansen is professor of political science at the Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO), Linköping University. A former senior fellow at the Remarque Institute at New York University, his research areas include European integration, EU migration policy, postwar European geopolitics, and the history of colonialism and decolonization. His most recent book is Eurafrica: The Untold History of European Integration and Colonialism (2014) co-authored with Stefan Jonsson. He is currently writing a book on Europe’s migration crises.
Stefan Jonsson is professor of ethnic studies at the Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO), Linköping University. He has written widely on European modernism and modernity, focusing especially on representations and fantasies of crowds and collectivities, as well as on European racism and colonialism. His writings include Subject Without Nation (2000); A Brief History of the Masses (2008); Crowds and Democracy (2013); and most recently Eurafrica: The Untold History of European Integration and Colonialism co-authored with Peo Hansen and Austere Histories in European Societies co-edited with Julia Willén.
Peo Hansen, Stefan Jonsson; Eurafrica Incognita: The Colonial Origins of the European Union. History of the Present 1 April 2017; 7 (1): 1–32. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/historypresent.7.1.0001
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