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Decolonising against a backdrop of colonial amnesia: barriers, challenges, and finding a way forward [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Sociology
This paper, originally delivered as a keynote at De Montfort University, interrogates the persistence of colonial amnesia within educational, institutional, and cultural contexts in the UK.
Javeria Khadija Shah
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Eurocentrism in Samuel P. Huntington’s Concept of the Clash of Civilisations

open access: yesPolish Political Science Yearbook, 2022
The article is dedicated to an issue of Eurocentrism in American political scientist Samuel P. Huntington’s concept of the clash of civilisations. The arguments presented indicate that Huntington’s concept is pure Eurocentric. I start by mentioning a few
Mateusz Kufliński
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Euro-Centrism vs. International Thinking

open access: yesPolitikon, 2006
The journey of the concept of Europe has been from myth to legend to war to stability. European unity is based, essentially, on the recognition of historic and linguistic diversity, the cultural variety and the national roots that make it unique.
Elona Nazaj
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Uncovering the Experiences of Engaging Indigenous Knowledges in Colonial Structures of Schooling and Research

open access: yesEngaged Scholar Journal, 2021
In response to the Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action (TRC, 2015), a school board teamed with university educators and educational partners to generate a professional learning series to support educators’ engagement with Indigenous knowledges.
Mairi McDermott   +3 more
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Criticizing Eurocentrism: Limitations and Alternatives

open access: yesİnsan & Toplum, 2013
Eurocentrism is a grand narrative changing with time and transforming under different contexts. Many critics of this grand narrative have not yet managed to go beyond what they have criti- cized.
Kerem Karaosmanoğlu   +1 more
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Decolonizing the “Universal” Human Rights Regime: Questioning American Exceptionalism and Orientalism

open access: yesReOrient, 2018
This article aims to decolonize the discourse of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights through the lens of Critical Muslim Studies, arguing that such systems of “international norms” are Eurocentric in character and hegemonic in practice.
Hakimeh Saghaye-Biria
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Eurocentrism and International Thinking - a brief introduction

open access: yesPolitikon, 2006
International thinking – a nice expression, widely used by political and economical leaders and easily found on all major newspapers nowadays. But has it been always like that? Globalisation is considered to be a rather new development in history.
Thomas M. Fesich
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Decolonisation of higher education: Dismantling epistemic violence and Eurocentrism in South Africa

open access: yesTransformation in Higher Education, 2016
Since the end of the oppressive and racist apartheid system in 1994, epistemologies and knowledge systems at most South African universities have not considerably changed; they remain rooted in colonial, apartheid and Western worldviews and ...
Savo Heleta
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LA DECONSTRUCTION DE L’EUROCENTRISME PHILOSOPHIQUE PAR LES PHILOSOPHES AFRICAINS

open access: yesStudia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai. Philosophia, 2023
Deconstruction of the Philosophical Eurocentrism by African Philosophers. Eurocentrism is a current that is manifested by the refusal, disdain and depreciation of all knowledge abroad in favor of European cultures.
Bauvarie MOUNGA
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Un orientalisme réinventé : Postures de Myriam Harry entre Europe, Afrique et Orient

open access: yesViatica, 2018
This article focuses on the writer Myriam Harry, who put the East at the heart of her literary production. As an exceptional case among travellers of her time, Harry blended different cultural universes in her books, which is particularly true of D ...
Maéva Bovio
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