Postcolonial Intellectuals in Europe

Sandra Ponzanesi is Professor of Gender and Postcolonial Studies, Department of Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. Adriano José Habed is a doctoral student in Political Philosophy and Gender Studies at the Department of Human Sciences, University of Verona, Italy, and the Department of Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.

Preface: Activist Intellectuals: Postcolonial Truth-telling Subjects, Engin Isin / Introduction: Postcolonial Intellectuals, European Publics: Definitions, Figures, Questions, Adriano José Habed and Sandra Ponzanesi / Part 1: Portraits of the Postcolonial Intellectual / 1. Antonio Gramsci and Anti-colonial Internationalism, Neelam Srivastava / 2. Traveling Orientalism: a Discussion of the European Reception of Edward Said, Jamila M. H. Mascat / 3. Simone de Beauvoir, Frantz Fanon, Algeria: Violence and Revolution, Christine Quinan / 4. The Voice of Stuart Hall, the Public Intellectual, Nirmal Puwar / 5. Hannah Arendt and Postcolonial Thought, Christopher Lee / 6. Rosi Braidotti and Paul Gilroy: Questions of Temporality and Cosmopolitan Futures of Europe, Bolette Blagaard / Part II: Artists and Writers as Intellectuals / 7. Salman Rushdie: The Accidental Intellectual in the Mediascape, Ana Mendes / 8. Documentary Practice as Political Intervention: Feminist Film-makers/Artists as Intellectuals, Domitilla Olivieri / 9. 'Not Merely in Symbol but in Reality': Zadie Smith and the Aesthetic of the Intellectual, Jesse van Amelsvoort / 10. Workshop's Fabrik: Independent Black British Filming and the Re-Routing of Diasporic Intellectual Practices, Liliana Ellena / 11. The Curator as a Public Intellectual: Okwui Enwezor, Rosemarie Buikema / 12. Anonymous Urban Disruptions – Exploring Banksy as an Artistic Activist and Social Critic, Tindra Thor / Part III. Intellectual Movements and Networks / 13. Muslim Public Intellectuals in the First Half of the Twentieth Century: A Prelude to Postcolonial Theory, Mehdi Sajid & Umr Ryad / 14. The Indigènes de la République Party as a Collective and Organic Intellectual in France, Gianfranco Rebucini / 15. Hacking the European Refugee Crisis? Data Activism and Human Rights, Koen Leurs / 16. Queer of Colour Critique and the Making of Black Diasporic Movements in Europe, Gianmaria Colpani / 17. Anonymity, Equality and the Political Critique of Postcolonial Europ, Sudeep Dasgupta / 18. Intellectuals in Transition, Sandro Mezzadra / Afterword, Bruce Robbins