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Constructed Languages as Semantic and Semiotic Systems
RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics, 2022 The research aims to explore constructed languages as semantic and semiotic systems by analyzing various types of languages based on their lexical, syntactic, morphological and other features.
Philipp N. Novikov
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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Strategies for Decentering the Narratives of Modernity: Goody, Wolff, Chakrabarty and Fabian – Part 1 Veronică Lazăr [PDF]
Political Studies Forum, 2022 This two-part article attempts to decipher four different critical strategies for decentering Eurocentrist narratives that promoted “the West” simultaneously as an agent, as a goal and as a yardstick for evaluating modernization processes across the ...
Veronica Lazăr
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Contemporary Social Sciences, 2021 The purpose of this article is to enhance the understanding of how Classical Chinese Philosophy has been interpreted and transferred by Enlightenment thinkers into the narrative framework of European philosophy as a far-reaching source of ideas and ...
Fu Chun；Wang Shuguang
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Marxism and Decolonizing Praxis: From Decolonial Misinterpretations to Marxist Contributions
Development and Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article intervenes in postcolonial and decolonial critiques that portray Karl Marx and Marxism as intrinsically Eurocentric and inattentive to race, colonialism and non‐European revolutionary agency. It argues that such critiques often rely on selective, historically limited interpretations that overlook Marx's later writings, in which he
Ana Cecilia Dinerstein
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Exporting peace? The EU mediator’s normative backpack
European Law Open, 2022 On the occasion of the launch of the European Law Open, this article analyses two policy documents of the European Union (EU) on its ambitions in peace mediation, to think about what it could mean for European law to be open to the world.
Sarah M.H. Nouwen
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Development and Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the Global North and elite spaces in the Global South, the concepts of Eurocentrism and decolonization have come to be associated primarily with identity and location rather than with capitalism and political economy. This article argues that the reason for this can be traced to what Samir Amin calls ‘inverted Eurocentrism’, which entails a
Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven
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Critics and Encounters in the Contemporary Social Structures
, 2020 In an environment where debates on Eurocentrism have rapidly started to increase and densify, it is possible to assert that Eurocentrism is constructed upon dichotomies.
Bulut, Firdevs
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Social construction of “other” as “primitive” [PDF]
Filozofija i Društvo, 2013 The author of this paper deals with the problem of cultural difference through the analysis of the relationship “us” - “others”. He searches for the answer to the question why the culture of other peoples or individuals are often considered inferior ...
Božilović Nikola T.
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Unreachable, Inescapable: Sustainable Development as Normative Camouflage in EU–MERCOSUR Trade
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how sustainable development functions as a mechanism of stabilising asymmetry in North–South trade governance, using the European Union (EU)–Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR) agreement as a case study. Whilst sustainability is often framed as a normative good or institutional advance, the article shows instead how it ...
Asha Herten‐Crabb
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