Description: To say that “Europe is not a continent” can only make sense, as both a provocation and an actual description of that part of the world, if we understand the world as a whole in its current post-colonial condition. -> Not completely surrounded by water like each of the world's main landmasses - or "continents",…
Europe is Not a Continent
To say that “Europe is not a continent” can only make sense, as both a provocation and an actual description of that part of the world, if we understand the world as a whole in its current post-colonial condition.
-> Not completely surrounded by water like each of the world’s main landmasses – or “continents”, see below – Europe could be seen as a peninsula or sub-continent of Asia at best. Still, it was imagined ( and really invented ) as a continent in Ancient Greek times and then still over the centuries through processes of differentiation of a “white”-Christian and “civilized-developed” part of the world in relation to all others.