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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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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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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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Occupational intersectionality: Introduction, contextualisation, and relevance to occupational therapy practice. [PDF]

open access: yesAust Occup Ther J
Abstract Background Intersectionality asks professionals to consider the diverse sociocultural identities and positionings that may directly or indirectly impact the day‐to‐day occupational lives of individuals, families, collectives, and communities.
Brown T   +3 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

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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Eurocentrism

open access: yes, 2023
The term Anthropocene was criticized for its tendency to simplify space and time, through over-universalizing language. Climate change narratives are overwhelmingly white, Eurocentric and masculine. The wealthy minority of the world’s population is responsible for the effects of the Anthropocene, while the consequences fall disproportionately on the ...
Braidotti, Rosi, Casper-Hehne, Hiltraud
openaire   +4 more sources

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
doaj   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

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