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. To celebrate this important milestone and to acknowledge the great work carried out over time by the more than 200 contributors listed at the end of this introduction, the editorial board has recently invested its efforts in transforming the open-access, peer-reviewed journal into a fully indexed publication in some of the most prestigious international databases, in order to enhance visibility and reach out to further global connections. This process is still ongoing, and the upgrade of FES will be fully operational in the second half of 2026.
Annalisa Oboe (Fri,) studied this question.