Introduction

Abstract

This introduction sketches some of the challenges in applying post-colonial theory to conditions and discourses of intra-European coloniality, post-coloniality, post-imperialism and post-dependency. It argues for a sensitive blending of the study of the historically specific with a conceptual approach which acknowledges patterns and brings general dynamics into view. The seven articles collected in this issue of the Journal of European Studies demonstrate a concomitant plurality of approaches to a wide range of exemplary scenarios (from Baltic positionings under the conditions of multidirectional hegemony to German and Polish/Ukrainian post-imperialisms) and on a variety of discursive sites (from memory politics to urban development).