New cartographies and the decolonisation of European geographies

This paper begins with Claudio Minca's recent suggestion that critical human geographers need to become much more attentive to their own geographical predispositions and positionalities. The paper focuses on lessons from post-colonial reason for decolonizing (and re-shaping) geographies of Europe and for understanding post-socialist Europe. The paper addresses the 'provincializing of Europe', what it would mean in our teaching to decolonize Euro-geographies, and the kinds of new cartographies and new geo-bio-politics of Europe we might write and teach. The paper concludes with a discussion of the implications for our research and teaching of taking seriously issues of diversity and otherness