Decolonizing Qurʾanic Studies by Joseph E. B. Lumbard

“…While Muslim lands are no longer directly colonized, intellectual colonialism continues to prevail in the privileging of Eurocentric systems of knowledge production to the detriment and even exclusion of modes of analysis that developed in the Islamic world for over a thousand years. …”
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Schooling experiences in a colonial school: the story of an experience in three voices by Alberto Moreno-Doña, Marcos Antonio Moreno Cortés, Juan Manuel Moreno Cortés

“…Based on qualitative methodological work with a narrative approach foundation and in which we have used testimonial narratives, we show the epistemological limitations of this Eurocentric school and the depoliticization of teaching work. …”
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Local Epistemological Perceptions that Underlie EFL Literature and Teaching Practices in Colombia by Martha Isabel Bonilla-Mora, Johanna Patricia López-Urbina

“…In addition, we raise awareness among preservice teachers towards an epistemological reconstruction that involves the ecology of knowledge, engaging them in critical knowledge and practices from outside the Eurocentric vision.  …”
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The characteristics of contemporary Chinese translation theory development: a systematic review of studies in core Chinese journals (2012–2022) by Zhongshu Qin, Xuehai (John) Cui, Xuesong (Andy) Gao

“…Abstract Researchers have long problematized the prevalence of Eurocentrism in modern Western translation theory. Alternative theories have been developing across many contexts, including China. …”
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“This is the Psychology we Need”: Maya immigrant views on mental health treatment by Robin Chancer

“…It would also recreate Eurocentric false division among mind, body, soul, and spirit. …”
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This Is What a Historicist and Relativist Feminist Philosophy of Disability Looks Like by Shelley Tremain

“…The article also situates feminist philosophical work on disability squarely in age-old debates in (Eurocentric) Western philosophy about universalism vs. relativism, materialism vs. idealism, realism vs. nominalism, and freewill vs. determinism, as well as contributes to ongoing discussions in (Western) feminist philosophy and theory about (among other things) essentialism vs. constructivism, identity, race, sexuality, agency, and experience.  …”
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Towards Creating a Global Urban Toponymy—A Comment by Liora Bigon

“…These will generate a more substantial contribution towards the creation of global urban toponymy and a further de-colonization of Eurocentric presumptions regarding governmentality, urban management, and the accompanying role of street naming systems.…”
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Brazilian sociological theory and postcolonial criticism by Lucas Amaral de Oliveira, Ana Rodrigues Cavalcanti Alves

“…Abstract The article discusses to what extent sociological theories produced in the Brazilian academic field dialogue with a global intellectual movement criticizing coloniality and the Eurocentric foundations of the social sciences. Initially, we analyze the challenges regarding the attempts to define two theoretical approaches, Brazilian sociology, and Postcolonial Thought, without overlooking their internal heterogeneities. …”
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MARIÁTEGUI, LATIN AMERICAN SOCIALISM, AND ASIA by Eduardo Subirats

“…It then challenges both the modern traditional Eurocentric Westernization of Latin American cultures, as well as the neoconservative strategies of "Western-hemispheric" mapping of Latin American cultures and peoples. …”
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Crafting Culturally Safe Learning Spaces: A Story of Collaboration Between an Educational Institution and Two First Nation Communities by Joanna Fraser, Evelyn Voyageur

“…This led to new possibilities of crafting an ethical learning space where Eurocentric ideologies could be dislodged from the center in order for Indigenous ways of knowing and learning to emerge. …”
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The Reluctant Islamophobes: Multimedia Dissensus in the Hollywood Premodern by Elena Furlanetto

“…In order to test this hypothesis, I focus on two films which explicitly champion diversity and aim to reverse the logics of Islamophobia by presenting tributes to Muslim culture or denunciations of Eurocentric discriminatory practices: Alejandro Amenábar’s Agora (2009) and Ridley Scott’s Kingdom of Heaven (2005). …”
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Usbong na Pagtatáya: Tangka sa Pagpapalawig sa Katuturan ng Sosyolohiya sa Pilipinas (Usbong na Pagtatáya Assessing the Affordance of Sociology in the Philippines) by Dennis S. Erasga

“…The usefulness of sociology can only be realized if it is used as a perspective and such requires a reflective stance on the whole praxis of appropriating the practices, protocols, and principles of the Eurocentric sociology. As a corollary issue, the paper investigates the ambivalence that characterized the disciplinal identity of sociology—an identity simultaneously forged by the literary and scientif ic traditions during the Industrial Revolution period. …”
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Le incognite demografiche del Corno d’Africa by Valentina Fusari

“…However, a more inclusive and less Eurocentric analysis would lead to comprise - and therefore to discuss - the role played by the population growth rates in the different countries of the region in terms of stability and security, potentiality and risk. …”
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Contribuições decolonais e feministas ao debate geográfico sobre corpo e território: mulheres da Terra Indígena Kaxarari e Rio Guaporé e a defesa do corpo-território by Hellen Virginia da Silva Alves

“…These sources contributed to the updating of the geographical concept of territory, which was previously based exclusively on Eurocentric standards. The main responsible for the extension/modernization of the geographic look on the body and the territory were Latin American Indigenous women and feminists, as they brought the interrelationship between body-territory-land to the center of the geographic and political debate, expanding the scales of analysis and the meanings of these categories. …”
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Il ruolo dei ‘saraceni’ nel consolidamento di un senso della nazione nell’Inghilterra del XIV secolo - Articolo invitato by Sergio Guerra

“…The article intends to contribute to an academic project of a ‘postcolonial’ kind which only recently got underway: to ascertain the role played by Islam and the Islamic world in European and global history, exposing what official, Eurocentric historiography (and on its trail literary criticism) had usually withheld or elided, deconstructing its truisms, unmasking myths and stereotypes, and decentring its narrative.…”
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El proyecto de investigación VEMOS: una propuesta para visibilizar a los grupos marginados en los museos arqueológicos by Diana Zárate-Zúñiga, Lourdes Prados Torreira, Francesca Romagnoli

“…The interpretation of the past is biased by the Eurocentric and androcentric misconceptions that are characteristic of our present-day Western society. …”
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Colonisation and the Genesis and Perpetuation of Anti-Blackness Violence in South Africa by Suriamurthee Moonsamy Maistry

“…Black academe in South Africa has been systematically frustrated with Western Eurocentric epistemologies and ontologies and struggle to engage in any substantive epistemological or ontological delinking. …”
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Humanising beauty by Tan, Daphne Shu Fang

“…Humanising Beauty is a research project that explores the factors that are controlling the perceptions of beauty in our globalized and Eurocentric world. “Women” and “beauty” seem to intertwine in a way that creates friction in the growth of women from adolescence to adults and self-discovery. …”
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The Intersections of native and global economies : 19th century Javanese batik industry by Koh, Ernest Kah Wee

“…In the greater context, this paper serves to debunk the Eurocentric narrative of colonial dominance and technological advancements. …”
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Transnational ties with the ethnic homeland: the case of Korean women of the CIS in marital migration by Ем Н.

“…The author considers the features of the international marriage of ethnic Koreans married in South Korea. A “Eurocentric” perspective on the choice of a South Korean citizen as a marriage partner for CIS girls can greatly assist Korean government and non-governmental organizations in adjusting policies to attract migrant women, as well as in implementing policies for the integration and adaptation of Russianspeaking ethnic Korean women in Korea. …”
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