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Changing Gender Relations in Canada: The Rise of Gender-Neutral Forenames. [PDF]

open access: yesCan Rev Sociol
ABSTRACT Historically, gender‐neutral or androgynous first names have been relatively rare, showing little sign of upward or downward temporal trend in Canada or elsewhere. Using digitized birth registration records from three provinces (Alberta, British Columbia, and Ontario) and for all of Canada, we highlight a rise, beginning around 1990, in the ...
Guppy N, Kolpashnikova K.
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Historical sociology, international relations and connected histories [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This article addresses three recent developments in historical sociology: (1) neo-Weberian historical sociology within International Relations; (2) the 'civilizational analysis' approach utilized by scholars of 'multiple modernities'; and (3) the 'third ...
Bhambra, Gurminder K.
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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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Cosmopolitanism, sociology and the otherness of the other [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This article is concerned with the ‘cosmopolitan turn’ in sociology and examines the ways in which the discipline attempts to come to terms with the otherness of the other as a corrective to its own Eurocentrism.
Argyrou, Vassos
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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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The foundations of a nation : framing Pakistan from 1940-1971 through international relations theory and postcolonialism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This paper explores the emerging integration of international relations theory with postcolonial scholarship and uses Pakistan’s state formation and history as a case study. It is argued that international relations theory privileges European experiences
Orme, Joshua Charles
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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
doaj  

A REVIEW OF CRITICS AGAINST THE CALL FOR INDIGENOUS SOCIOLOGY IN TURKEY

open access: yesİmgelem, 2021
The call for indigenous sociology is a discussion that reflects reactions to the Eurocentric character of Western sociology and alternative proposals.
Fahri Çakı
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Beyond Prejudice and Pride: The Human Sciences in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Latin America [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Grappling with problematics of status and hierarchy, recent literature on the history of the human sciences in Latin America has gone through three overlapping phases.
Rodriguez, Julia E.
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