Dewesternising the South African social security law: a leap towards an Afrocentric legal curricular by Shelton Tapiwa Mota Makor, Nombulelo Lubisi

“…The article unsettles the dominant Eurocentric model on the origin of South Africa Social Security Law which marginalise the role that indigenous knowledge play in the development of this area of law. …”
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Collective Action, Good Government, and Democracy in Tlaxcallan, Mexico: An Analysis Based on Demokratia by Lane F. Fargher, Richard E. Blanton, Verenice Y. Heredia Espinoza

“…However, recently, Eurocentric theories have been subject to reevaluation. …”
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Interpolating South Asian Transnational Heritage: Allegory In South Asian Diasporic Metropolitan Young Adult Fiction by Rasagam, Manohari, Pillai, Shanthini

“…Young adult books written by western metropolitan authors clearly cater to a western audience: the protagonists, settings and the archetypes of these texts are Eurocentric. Eurocentric concepts and experiences are often assumed to be universal. …”
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Migração na África Ocidental e Cabo Verde: uma relação recente? by Eufémia Vicente Rocha

“…The aim of this paper is to reconstruct, from a eurocentric perspective, how migration is objectivated, today, in Cape Verde, the circumstances in which immigration is thought and the conditions to understand it out of the patterns that shape it into a Western form, static. …”
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Geo-political vampirism: how and why has Western literary scholarship appropriated and then re-mythologised the socio-historical origins of the vampire? by A. J. Dalton

“…Crawford (2016) identifies a German literary vampire tradition existing one hundred years before Polidori, yet that work has strengthened Eurocentric claims concerning the literary vampire by academics like Bloom (2018). …”
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Contact of Cultures and the Image of Japan in European Fiction (Frigate “Pallada” by I. Goncharov and The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by D. Mitchell) by Olga Grigorievna Sidorova

“…The Russian writer looks at the Japanese down and from the outside; he considers “strangeness” and “childishness” to be their national features. Goncharov’s Eurocentric position is explained by several reasons: his knowledge of Japan was external, he was a civil servant, who cared mostly about the interests of Russia, and he represented an influential group of Eurocentric intelligentsia. …”
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Postcolonialism in International Studies: Two Faces of Theory by Ivan D. Loshkariov

“…The importance of mastering the tools and techniques of this paradigm or a set of relatively close paradigms is associated both with the gradual rejection of the Eurocentric vision of global and regional political history, as well as the identification of spatial and temporal features of theorizing on international issues. …”
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The Integration Patterns in East Asia: A Test by the European Union Experience by Andrey Anatolyevich Baykov

“…The author criticizes the Eurocentric theories of integration, analyzes the stages and features of integration projects in the European Union and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, identifying similarities and differences of the integration in the both international regions.…”
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Critiquing the Modern in Architecture / by Mehta, Jamini, author 645048

“…Author Jaimini Mehta moves architectural modernism from its primarily Eurocentric definition, interrogating the subject from the perspective on a non-western thought-world. …”

Being Between by Fabian Heubel

“…Heidegger’s invocation of “Greekdom” is undoubtedly Eurocentric. But, ironically, Heidegger’s “Greek thinking” is less Eurocentric than Jullien’s “Chinese thinking”, because he discovers the “Chinese” Between in the midst of “Greek” Being. …”
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Hinduism, Belief and the Colonial Invention of Religion: A before and after Comparison by Shyam Ranganathan

“…Given that <i>W</i>estern colonialism is the pivotal event, before which South Asians just had philosophy, and after which they had religion (the explanatory residua of Eurocentric interpretation), we can ask about Hindu religious belief. …”
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Hybrid Modernities and Tropical Architecture by Jiat-hwee Chang

“…Many of these assertions should be understood as part of the politics of opposition, aimed at challenging the hegemony of Eurocentric conceptions of modernity. …”
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Hybrid Modernities and Tropical Architecture by Jiat-hwee Chang

“…Many of these assertions should be understood as part of the politics of opposition, aimed at challenging the hegemony of Eurocentric conceptions of modernity. …”
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Some Thoughts on Tagore as a Thinker by Kaiser Haq

“…Likewise Tagore’s sense of nationhood ls based on a comprehensive realization of the human potentialities, which is different from Nietzsche’s Eurocentric critique of nationalism. It also deals critically with Tagore’s mysticism. …”
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Cosmopolitanism and cosmopolitics combined: A European agora by Rik Pinxten

“…It should be envisaged beyond the traditional Eurocentric frame of reference and should combine negotiated global choices and principles with localidentity issues. …”
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Ethnocentricity in Academic Philosophy by Anna Christen

“…This text offers fundamental criticism of the focus on a narrow range of dominant epistemologies that, as will be argued, originate in Eurocentric ideologies. I will present a two-pronged approach, proposing a shift in curricula as well as in methods of philosophical inquiry. …”
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Challenging the Canon: Reading the 19th Century Ottoman Architecture through Provincial Mosques by Ceren Katipoğlu Özmen

“…The main objective of this article is to propose an alternative historiography to 19th century Ottoman architecture, without the Eurocentric paradigms, by including the ‘unseen’ actors of this history, namely the disregarded provincial architecture. …”
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Malinche, Pocahontas, and Sacagawea: Indian Women as Cultural Intermediaries and National Symbols by Amani Khelifa

“…Jager’s research answers an earlier call by Native-American historian and feminist scholar Clara Sue Kidwell in her 1992 Ethnohistory article, “Indian Women as Cultural Intermediaries,” to revisit these stories from a non-Eurocentric perspective.  …”
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SOUTHEAST ASIA'S MODERN ARCHITECTURE : Questions of Translation, Epistemology and Power / by Chang, Jiat-Hwee, editor 525639, Tajudeen, Imran, editor 637219

“…It looks at the challenges of studying this complex history through the conceptual frameworks of translation, epistemology, and power. Challenging Eurocentric ideas and architectural nomenclature, the authors examine the development of modern architecture in Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam, with a focus on selective translation and strategic appropriation of imported ideas and practices by local architects and builders. …”

Esoteric Lacan by Saywrane Alfonso Williams

“…The study takes an interdisciplinary and interlocutive approach to ideas Lacan conversed with and goes beyond a Eurocentric context. The collection spans the gamut from Gnosticism to Judaism to Kabbalistic musings to Afropessimism to the Lacanian discourses to the Borromean Knot and Sinthome to Ibn ‘Arabī and much more.…”
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