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"New Formations" is a journal of cultural debate, history and theory. It brings new and challenging perspectives to bear on the categories that frame cultural analysis and political action. The journal has covered issues ranging from the seduction of perversity to questions of nationalism and post-colonialism. Contributors open up new zones of enquiry whilst drawing new charts of understanding to explain new formations in contemporary life. "New Formations" brings together in one volume both established and new writers from many walks of critical life. Past contributors have included: Parveen Adams, Nomi Bhabha, Slavoj Zizek, Susan Buck-Morss, Gillian Rose, Jacqueline Rose, Zygmunt Bauman and Christopher Norris. Europe and its nations are no longer what they once were. "Europeanization" is now contemplated, not with reference to the rest of the world, but to Europe itself as it struggles to survive the loss of its myths and to come to terms with a world in which its position has been relativized. As the old order gives way, identities (of both colonized and colonizer) are rendered insecure. This study addresses the issue of Europe in a post-colonial world from various perspectives.From an assessment of the post-colonial strategies of South African writer J.M. Coetzee, to the changing role of American identities; from the reconstitution of European nations and imaginations to the mobilization of the national myths of Englishness. The contributors to the book include Eva Bahovec, Anne Beezer, John Borneman, Vassiliki Kolocotroni, Kenneth Parker, Benia Parry, Marcia Pointon, Kevin Robins, Jon Stratton, Andrew Thacker, McKenzie Wark and Robin Wilson.