Presenter: Hans Kundnani, Visiting Professor in Practice, London School of Economics
Moderator: Turkuler Isiksel, Associate Professor of Political Science, Columbia University
Hans Kundnani will present his book Eurowhiteness: Culture, Empire and Race in the European Project (London: Hurst, 2023).
European identity, as opposed to national identities in Europe, is often imagined as being inclusive or even cosmopolitan. But in the long history of ideas of Europe, it has been defined against a series of Others. The ethnic/cultural element of European identity, Kundnani argues, did not suddenly disappear in 1945 but rather persisted and influenced what became the European Union, which began as a colonial project, though this was subsequently written out of the story of European integration. Today, as the far right rises across Europe and the EU increasingly sees itself as representing a threatened European civilization, this ethnic/cultural element of European identity may once again be becoming stronger.
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