10 years of writing and critical commitment in the postcolonial humanities

Issue 18 (Spring 2026) of From the European South celebrates the tenth anniversary of the journal, which began in 2016 as a spinoff of the postcolonialitalia research project at the University of Padova. Over the years, FES has developed into a solid platform for post- and decolonial critical thinking and writing from the Global South, taking the planet and the future as its necessary horizons. This issue evidences the journal’s roots in postcolonial studies, literatures and cultures, its dialogues with decolonial and critical race studies, and ongoing interest in the arts and activism. It also encourages the quest for a new critical language involving affect and sensibilities that might help us to work through the opacity of a war-ridden world that is difficult to articulate.