Practicing diversity in higher education in geography: exploring spaces of diversity and their barriers in a geography department in Switzerland by Jokela-Pansini, M, Wintzer, J

“…<p>Recent feminist geographic scholarship has urged geographers to distance themselves from androcentric and Eurocentric approaches, and to open up the discipline to diverse perspectives. …”

Conflict of cultures: a marginalised orphan of the colonial discourse ‘disinterred’ in Jack Maggs by Peter Carey by Rafał Łyczkowski

“…Maggs ceases to be spoken for as a study of the Eurocentric world, becoming a voice of those silenced and devoid of their land, whose culture was meant to be uprooted by the colonial power dynamics. …”
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Unpartitionable: C.H. Alexandrowicz, Sovereign Divisibility, and the Longue Durée of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth by Eric Loefflad

“…Alexandrowicz, a Polish jurist renowned for his anti-Eurocentric revisionist account of Asian and African agency within the meta-narrative of international law. …”
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From celebration to utilisation: How linguistic diversity can reduce epistemic inequalities by Marcus Grohmann

“…However, it is often overlooked that greater representation of people of colour does not automatically challenge the epistemic authority that tends to rest with white people and/or Eurocentric knowledge systems. This was the backdrop of a study carried out in a multi-‘racial’ South African congregation. …”
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The Others in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre: A Postcolonial-Orientalist and Feminist Reading by Filiz Barın Akman

“…However, while Brontë creates a female character in Jane who triumphs over the challenges posed by Victorian society’s class and gender hierarchies, i.e., the status as other of governesses and women, problematic as it is in its final solidification of the status quo, Bertha reflects the dominant, Eurocentric ideologies of nineteenth century England concerning race and the racial other. …”
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Decolonial movements in rural teacher's training: resistance to the segregated knowledge pattern by Francisca Marli Rodrigues de Andrade, Letícia Pereira Mendes Nogueira, Lucas do Couto Neves, Marcela Pereira Mendes Rodrigues, Pablo P. de Jesus Santos

“…The narratives highlight that Rural Education breaks up with the Eurocentric view of knowledge in order to acknowledge the richness of different knowledge fields, identities, and students’ historical and epistemic place with a colonial scene that denies differences to the detriment of submission practices. …”
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Exhibiting The Voice by Kris Dittel, Jelena Novak

“…Instead of this rather Eurocentric conception of the voice, Post-Opera demonstrated a disconnect between this view and brought forth a proposition where singing machines, mechanisms, beasts, animals and other “others” joined in a collective form of vocal expression. …”
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QuaREPE: assimetrias nas representações (inter)culturais do mundo lusófono by Marcelo da Silva Amorim, Ricardo Alexandre Peixoto Barbosa, Brenda Louise Ferreira

“…As a preliminary result, we point out that the QuaREPE (guiding document) adopts a Eurocentric perspective, promoting only the Portuguese culture. …”
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Beyond Colonial Boundaries: Reimagining the Rozvi through Landscapes, Identities and Indigenous Epistemologies by Lesley Hatipone Machiridza, Russell Kapumha

“…However, since African archaeology and history remains trapped in Eurocentric colonial metanarratives, indigenous epistemologies and ontologies have somehow remained on the margins of knowledge production processes. …”
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Executive functions in understanding certain disabilities within an African context by Mfundo Mandla Masuku, Mbongeni Shadrack Sithole, Zinhle Mthembu

“…Afrocentricity is used as an alternative knowledge system, which places the needs of Africans at the center of focus. In contrast to Eurocentric tendencies, the holistic being, in the African context, is understood and constituted as body, mind, and spirit. …”
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Prince K. A. Vyazemsky’s Notes about Trip to China in 1894-1895 as Historical Source (Through Pages of “Russkoye Obozrenie” Magazine) by Y. G. Blagoder

“…Specific examples illustrate the Eurocentric views of the Russian aristocrat, which influenced the assessment of what he was able to see in China.…”
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Revisiting decoloniality for more effective research and evaluation by Fanie Cloete, Christelle Auriacombe

“…Background: There is increasing global resistance against a perceived Eurocentric value hegemony in knowledge generation, implementation and evaluation. …”
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Land Is Life: Indigenous Relationships to Territory and Navigating Settler Colonial Property Regimes in Canada by Clifford Atleo, Jonathan Boron

“…We introduce several perspectives on land rooted in diverse Indigenous worldviews and contrast them with settler colonial perspectives rooted in Eurocentric worldviews. We then examine several examples in Canada where Indigenous nations attempt to reconnect with their homelands, protect them, and/or engage with them for economic development. …”
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Pluriversal Futures for Design Education by Lesley-Ann Noel, Adolfo Ruiz, Frederick M.C. van Amstel, Victor Udoewa, Neeta Verma, Nii Kommey Botchway, Arvind Lodaya, Shalini Agrawal

“…The group addresses the dominance of a Eurocentric design canon and worldwide colonization by a twentieth-century design monoculture grounded in the concept of universal human experience. …”
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Academics with disabilities during transformation to a New African University in South Africa by Sibonokuhle Ndlovu

“…Whilst it is claimed that the process seeks to include all stakeholders, academics with disabilities are excluded because of discourses and dynamics in Africa’s higher education that have remained deeply embedded in Eurocentric thinking and mind-set. This paper applied Critical Disability Theory to analyse the challenges that face academics with disabilities in the areas of teaching, research, community engagement and doctoral supervision in South African higher education and that must be appropriately and adequately addressed for a successful transformation to a “‘new’ African University”. …”
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Ubuntu pedagogy – transforming educational practices in South Africa through an African philosophy: from theory to practice by Nomlaungelo Ngubane, Manyane Makua

“…Education in South Africa, and Africa at large, has always been construed from Eurocentric perspectives despite Africa being rich with indigenous philosophies and knowledge systems such as the Ubuntu philosophy. …”
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Decolonization of international law: pedagogical mechanisms to confront the multiple forms of colonialism by Bruno Lopes Ninomiya, Gabriel Antonio Silveira Mantelli

“…In this sense, the aim here is to discuss the fact that the theoretical references used in the teaching of Brazilian law have a predominantly Eurocentric basis, which is destined for a certain universality that epistemologically silences alternative narratives. …”
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Contingent Colonialities by Anita Huizar-Hernandez, Angela Corsa, Alejandra Encinas García, Carmen Lucia Rivero, Ashley Ávila

“…At the same time, the fact that La relación was not written in English does not mean the text is not Eurocentric. On the contrary, fully apprehending La relación and its impact requires a decolonial approach that decenters Cabeza de Vaca and his limited perspective. …”
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Establishment and Development of University Theatre Studies in Ukraine: History and Present Time by Maiia Harbuziuk, Roman Lavrentii, Ulyana Roy, Sofiia Rosa-Lavrentii, Myroslava Tsyhanyk

“…This unit exemplifies the transformative shift from a pragmatic, post-Soviet theatre theory to a Eurocentric orientation rooted in rigorous scientific foundations. …”
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Exploring Social Justice Issues That Inform the 21st-Century Curriculum in Higher Education: Lecturers’ Voices and Experiences by Medson Phindani Mapuya

“…However, owing to lack of transformation and the practical implementation of these policies, higher education is still significantly entrenched in Eurocentric epistemologies which expose students to a learning environment which does not represent their social identities. …”
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