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Decolonising Europe? Decolonising Europe? Popular Responses to the End of Empire offers a new paradigm to understand decolonisation in Europe by showing how it was fun- damentally a fluid process of fluxes and refluxes involving not only transfers of populations, ideas, and sociocultural practices across continents but also com- plex intra-European dynamics at a time of political convergence following the Treaty of Rome. Decolonisation was neither a process of sudden, rapid changes to European cultures nor one of cultural inertia, but a development marked by fluid- ity, movement, and dynamism. Rather than being a static process where Europe’s (former) metropoles and their peoples ‘at home’ reacted to the end of empire ‘out there’, decolonisation translated into new realities for Europe’s cultures, socie- ties, and politics as flows, ebbs, fluxes, and cultural refluxes reshaped both former colonies and former metropoles. The volume’s contributors set out a carefully crafted panorama of decolonisa- tion’s sequels in European popular culture by means of in-depth studies of spe- cific cases and media, analysing the interwoven meaning, momentum, memory, material culture, and migration patterns of the end of empire across eight major European countries. The revised meaning of ‘decolonisation’ that emerges will challenge scholars in several fields, and the panorama of new research in the book charts paths for new investigations. The question mark in the title asks not only how European cultures experienced the ‘end of empire’ but also the extent to which this is still a work in progress. Berny Sèbe is Senior Lecturer in Colonial and Post-Colonial Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK. Matthew G. Stanard is Professor of History at Berry College, USA. Empire and the Making of the Modern World, 1650–2000 Series Editors: Philippa Levine, University of Texas at Austin, and John Marriott, University of Hull This monograph series seeks to explore the complexities of the relationships among empires, modernity and global history. In so doing, it wishes to challenge the orthodoxy that the experience of modernity was located exclusively in the west, and that the non-western world was brought into the modern age through conquest, mimicry and association. To the contrary, modernity had its origins in the interaction between the two worlds. Decolonising Europe? Popular Responses to the End of Empire Edited by Berny Sèbe and Matthew G. Stanard Archiving Settler Colonialism Culture, Space and Race Edited by Yu-ting Huang and Rebecca Weaver-Hightower Across the World with the Johnsons Visual Culture and American Empire in the Twentieth Century By Prue Ahrens, Lamont Lindstrom, Fiona Paisley Empire De/Centered New Spatial Histories of Russia and the Soviet Union Edited by Maxim Waldstein, Sanna Turoma Enlightened Reform in Southern Europe and its Atlantic Colonies, c. 1750–1830 Edited by Gabriel Paquette Portuguese Colonial Cities in the Early Modern World Edited by Liam Matthew Brockey Gender and the Making of Modern Medicine in Colonial Egypt By Hibba Abugideiri Rethinking African Politics A History of Opposition in Zambia By Miles Larmer Art in the Time of Colony By Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll Decolonising Europe? Popular Responses to the End of Empire Edited by Berny Sèbe and Matthew G. Stanard First published 2020 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2020 selection and editorial matter, Berny Sèbe and Matthew G. Stanard; individual chapters, the contributors The right of Berny Sèbe and Matthew G. Stanard to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record has been requested for this book ISBN: 978-0-367-13960-5 (hbk) ISBN: 978-0-429-02936-3 (ebk) Typeset in Times New Roman by Deanta Global Publishing Services, Chennai, India To Robin & Elliott and Marlon & Ivan So that they can better understand where they come from, and where they are heading. Contents List of figures ix List of contributors xi Acknowledgements xiv Acronyms xvi Making sense of the end of empire: Fluxes and flows in Decolonising Europe? 1 BERNY SÈBE AND MATTHEW G. STANARD Meaning: Making sense of decolonisation 23 1 Magna Carta and the end of empire 25 AMANDA BEHM 2 The end of empire and the four nations 42 JOHN M. MACKENZIE 3 Reverberations of decolonisation: British approaches to governance in post-colonial Africa and the rise of the ‘strong men’ 57 CHRISTOPHER PRIOR Media: Words and images of the end of empire 73 4 The semantics of decolonisation: The public debate on the New Guinea Question in the Netherlands, 1950–62 75 VINCENT KUITENBROUWER 5 Decolonisation and the press: A path to pluralism in Franco’s Spain, ca. 1950–75 96 SASHA D. PACK viii Contents Memory: Recalling empire in post-imperial worlds 111 6 Afterlives of colonialism in the everyday: Street names and the (un)making of imperial debris 113 BRITTA SCHILLING 7 Passing the point of no return: Italy’s regretted end of empire and the Mogadishu massacre of 1948 140 GIUSEPPE FINALDI 8 Oases of imperial nostalgia: British and French desert memories after empire 159 BERNY SÈBE 9 Questioning Portugal’s social cohesion and preparing post-imperial memory: Returned settlers (retornados) and Portuguese society, 1975–80 181 ISABEL DOS SANTOS LOURENÇO AND ALEXANDER KEESE Material culture: Tactile rémanences 197 10 Ephemera and the dynamics of colonial memory 199 CHARLES FORSDICK 11 Domestic museums of decolonisation?: Objects, colonial officials, and the afterlives of empire in Britain 220 SARAH LONGAIR AND CHRIS JEPPESEN 12 Decongolising Europe? African art and post-colony Belgium 238 MATTHEW G. STANARD Momentum: Decolonisation and its aftermath 257 Afterword: Diverging experiences of decolonisation 259 WM ROGER LOUIS Index 273 Figures 4.1 Delpher ngram-graph, use of term ‘dekolonisatie’, 1900–1990 76 4.2 Delpher ngram-graph, use of term ‘Papoea’ (Papua), 1900–1990 76 4.3 Delpher ngram-graph, use of term ‘zelfbeschikkingsrecht’ (self-determination), 1900–1990 76 6.1 German postage stamp series commemorating the ‘colonial memorial year’ of 1934 118 6.2 Poster depicting Jan Pieterszoon Coen’s ‘bloody’ legacy 125 8.1 The entrance to the Musée saharien in the outskirts of Montpellier 167 8.2 Musée saharien, Montpellier: colonial and ethnographic displays (including a traditional Tuareg tent at the back) on the first floor 167 8.3 Musée saharien, Montpellier: ethnographic and prehistoric displays on the ground floor 168 8.4 Appearance of keywords ‘Sahara’ and ‘Sudan’ in catalogues of the BnF and BL 169 8.5 Appearance of keywords ‘désert’ and ‘desert’ in the catalogues of the BnF and BL, 2 January 2017 170 8.6 Appearance of keywords ‘Sahara’ in France, and ‘Sahara’ and ‘Sudan’ in the UK, in catalogues of the BnF and LoC (respectively), 2 January 2017 171 9.1 Articles in Diário de Notícias and Primeiro de Janeiro, by theme, 1974–79 188 10.1 Nescao promotional material, c. 1930. Cut-out figure sitting under coconut tree 208 10.2 Publicity material, Phosphatine Falières, c. 1930. Cut-out figure of Bambara musician 209 10.3 Publicity material, Phosphatine Falières, c. 1930. Cut-out figure of Kabylian shepherd 210 10.4 Luc Marie Bayle, La Vache qui rit promotional blotting paper series ‘Les Découvertes’, c. 1960, no. 5, Francis Garnier 212

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