Rethinking Diversity in Europe: Lessons from the New World

Abstract:Can creolization offer new ways of conceptualizing social and cultural transformations in contemporary Europe? And what are the implications of transferring a concept that is deeply rooted in the violent history of slavery and exploitation to new contexts and settings? Through an in-depth review of Creolizing Europe, this review article explores these questions among others. It is argued that, used with caution and in dialogue with other understandings of diversity, creolization can contribute to new and potentially radical ways of critically rethinking attitudes towards difference in Europe.