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Global law and human rights: Marxist reflections. How can a political account of human rights avoid Eurocentrism? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
My recent book The Degradation of the International Legal Order? attempts a political account of human rights, and engages with the work of China Miéville and Susan Marks, as well as the extraordinary opus of Alain Badiou. The book has been well received.
Bowring, Bill
core  

What is Education for? Situating History, Cultural Understandings and Studies of Society and Environment against Neo-Conservative Critiques of Curriculum Reform [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
This paper explores some of debates about the nature and purpose of education in the social sciences in the Australian curriculum. It examines recent attempts in studies of society and environment and history curriculum to prepare students for global ...
Henderson, Deborah
core   +2 more sources

Unruly Modernity: Reconciling Modernity and Decolonisation in Migration Theory

open access: yesPopulation, Space and Place, Volume 32, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper uses unruly modernity as a way of reconciling modernity and decolonisation in migration theory. Migration theory has adopted aspirations and capability as two underpinning concepts for explaining migration. Drawing on empirical research these aspirations and capabilities are usually set within modernity and describe modernity as a ...
Parvati Raghuram
wiley   +1 more source

La comprensión europea del mundo: Eurocentrismo y ciencia ibérica en el Atlántico del siglo XVI

open access: yesL'Atelier du CRH, 2017
This article deals with the history of scientific practices in the 16th century Iberian Atlantic and explains the relation of such practices with the emergence of a Eurocentric world order.
Mauricio Nieto
doaj   +1 more source

Perspectives on Social and Justice Issues in Climate Policy – Comparing the Just Transitions, Sustainable Welfare and Eco‐Social Policy Literatures

open access: yesWIREs Climate Change, Volume 17, Issue 1, January/February 2026.
Mapping the Just Transitions, Sustainable Welfare and Eco‐Social Policy Literatures along the axes of capitalism/growth approaches and global justice demonstrates that there is a large gap in research at the intersection of overcoming‐capitalism/post‐growth growth approaches and global justice/decolonisation analysis.
Milena Büchs   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Heroic Creation and the Socialist City: The Making of Villa El Salvador

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 58, Issue 1, January 2026.
Abstract J.C. Mariátegui believed Indo‐American socialism would be neither calque nor copy, but heroic creation. This article explores an attempt at heroic creation in 1970s Peru: the Self‐Managed Urban Commune of Villa El Salvador (Villa). Putting Marxism in conversation with decolonial theory, I argue Villa shows universality and particularity can be
Rafael Shimabukuro
wiley   +1 more source

Eurocentrism

open access: yes, 2012
This chapter concentrates on the use (and sometimes abuse) of the concept of Eurocentrism in the discipline of translation studies. It relates it to other types of continentalizing discourse and discusses the criticisms.
openaire   +4 more sources

How Do Unexpected Networks Help Female Entrepreneurs in the Global South Survive in Adverse Contexts? A Case Study of Bangladesh

open access: yesGender, Work &Organization, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 132-163, January 2026.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the role of various unexpected networks in supporting the survival of female‐owned SMEs in the Global South. The research focuses upon Bangladesh, which is a context marked by institutional adversity and postcolonial legacies.
Sharmin Nahar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

LIFE CHANCES AND STRUCTURAL INEQUALITY

open access: yesGlocalism: Journal of Culture, Politics and Innovation
The article delves into the historical trajectory of global inequality, tracing the transition from an era of relative equality to the emergence of profound disparities following the Industrial Revolution and the rise of the West.
HANS-PETER MÜLLER
doaj   +1 more source

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