ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book demonstrates how the genealogical approach frames articulations of formations, as well as the complete excision of the colonial era in political science studies of post-war Europe. It discusses genocide, de-population, re-population, population exchanges and transfers, and territorial re-mappings/annexations that have been legitimized as 'solutions' to the 'problem' of ethnic/cultural/religious minorities and 'undesirables' in Europe prior to the arrival of post-war migrants from the colonies. The book examines how the post-war turn to the nation enabled Britain and France to occlude the narrative of colonialism, giving rise to fragmented and singular perspectives of the past focused on the Nazi 'defeat'. It also examines how the politics of gender relations entrenches deep divides between men and women where little is imagined in terms of men and women working together.
