Sandra Ponzanesi guest editor for special issue of Interventions

Prof. Sandra Ponzanesi (Gender Studies) served as guest editor for a special issue of Interventions. International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. The issue is titled The Point of Europe: Postcolonial Entanglements (Volume 18, Issue 2, 2016).

In The Point of Europe contributors ask the question whether or not Europe – what is called ‘Europe’ as a geographic, geopolitical, historical entity whose definition was never unambiguous and will never be, but which nevertheless signals a unique crystallisation of traditions and conflicts – has in recent years crossed a defining limit in its relationship to its own past. They consider this question in particular in relation to Europe's colonial past, which mirrors a radically altered relationship to the rest of the world. Among the contributors to this issue are Prof. Dr Sandra Ponzanesi, Prof. Dr Étienne Balibar, Prof. Dr Bruce Robbins, Prof. Dr Rosemarie Buikema, Dr Birgit Kaiser, and Dr Kathrin Thiele.