México y Alemania: crónica de una literatura no anunciada. by Cristóbal Garza González

“…Novels written by Mexican authors that focus on German history and culture open a field to reflect on the capacity of literature to reconstruct European history from a Latin American locus of enunciation and to interrogate the power of the imperial eye as a Eurocentric mode of image making.…”
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“To See Together Without Claiming to Be Another”: Stories as Relations, Against One-Direction Mode of Indigenous Stories Travelling by Eun-Ji Amy Kim, Sandra-Lynn Leclaire

“…In this article, we aim to critically review and reflect on underlying theories and practices in conventional Eurocentric academia that allows for a ‘one direction’ mode of storytelling dissemination, allowing researchers to take the ‘version’ of community knowledge and/or stories without seeking the original approval from the communities themselves. …”
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Explorations into modernity, colonialism and genocide: Revisiting the past in the present by Henning Melber

“…Forms of domination anchored in a colonial mindset are not any longer only of Eurocentric or European brand but alive in certain forms of power executed elsewhere too. …”
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Reviving Knowledges through Play and Resistance: The Case of Navajo Conceptions of Space by Daniel Ness, Richard D. Sawyer

“…The authors explore a possible cause of epistemicidal predispositions of the dominant Eurocentric curricula. They posit that one way to determine a plausible contributing factor of this increasing devastation is to consider epistemicide through the lens of intellectual development. …”
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Afrotempos: by Thiago Pirajira Conceição

“…The mythic-philosophical foundations that constitute knowledge of African origins are discussed; scenic strategies developed in the process of creation, that organize a way of thinking about scenic practice itself, based on assumptions distanced from Eurocentric theatrical and performative notions, are identified. …”
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"The Thirst of Tamils is the Homeland of Tamil Eelam": Methodology as a Form of Repatriation by Vivetha Thambinathan

“…Besides, being able to reimagine academic research methodology – with its roots in harmful Eurocentric, colonial institutions – is itself a form of repatriation.…”
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Modern Indian Utopian Art and Literature: An Introduction by Barnita Bagchi, Sukla Chatterjee

“…We show how the collection is part of the current scholarly endeavour to recognize the wealth of non-Eurocentric utopian and dystopian texts in literature. …”
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A Tale of Two Brazzas: Intertwining (Post-)Colonial Namescapes by Liora Bigon, Michel Ben Arrous

“…This aspect of spatial intertwining contributes to the de-Eurocentrization of recent place names studies, which tend to be focused on Europe/the West and on nationalistic aspects. …”
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Rise of Fundamentalist Discourse and the Reassertion of Modern Ethos by Abdul Wahab Suri

“…Islamic discourse determines the limit of modernity in the non-Western, post-colonial world; on the other hand, it provides substantive theoretical resistance to anti-foundationalist, contingent and relativistic postmodernism prevailing in Eurocentric cultures. In this way, Islamic discourse naturally performs two functions simultaneously which has the potential to be instrumentalised for the sustenance of modern institutional order.…”
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Pedagogy of ‘Refusing’ – commentary to Siriwardane-de Zoysa, Sreekanta, Mwambari, Mehta and Majumder by Sayan Dey

“…On the basis of my personal experiences and the ethnographic experiences of the authors of the essay, this commentary argues how the performance and acknowledgment of ‘refusal’ can be adopted as a research methodology in anthropology and other academic disciplines to counter the colonial/Eurocentric parameters of knowledge production. …”
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Experiencias docentes que tensionan el código disciplinar androcéntrico de la historia by Milagros Rocha

“…The teaching of history in Argentina, has been characterized by its rote, nationalist, Eurocentric imprint (De Amézola, 2008, 2020, Finocchio, 2009, González, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019) and a strong presence of hegemonic masculinities (Connell, 1997), in different versions, according to the time and space that is being studied. …”
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White privilege and professionalization: a decolonial and critical feminist perspective on professional nursing by Natalie Stake-Doucet

“… This article offers a critical perspective linking invisibility with the political foundations of the dominant, Eurocentric model of modern nursing. Using critical feminist and decolonial feminist frameworks, this paper begins by analyzing gendered, reproductive labor in the centuries leading up to the industrial revolution in Britain and Europe and how the current dominant model of nursing was developed. …”
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Antropofagia: An Early Arrière-Garde Manifestation in 1920s Brazil by Costa Söderlund, Kalinca

“…Antropofagia anticipates Frampton's ideas on Western post-modern stances, undermining the Eurocentric narrative on the succession of, and difference between, modernism and post-modernism. …”
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Te Kauae Maro o Muri-ranga-whenua (The Jawbone of Muri-ranga-whenua) by Tania Marie Ka'ai

“…ti Porou tribe than it does either in the movie or in Eurocentric feminisms. A description of why a M?ori/P?…”
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The Embodiment of Zhuangzi‘s Ecological Wisdom in Chinese Literati Painting (wenrenhua 文人畫) and Its Aesthetics by Loreta POŠKAITĖ

“…Its purpose is to explore a more nuanced, philosophical and non-Eurocentric interpretation of this peculiar kind of harmony of things or their “unity in particularity”, as inspired by Zhuangzi’s ideas and seemingly embodied in Chinese literati painting. …”
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50 shades of white : a case study of what and why preference for skin color is influenced by gender, social class & ethnicity by Goh, Chloe

“…Traditional beliefs were found to have considerable influence while ethnic- authenticity and Eurocentricity had little influence over the individual’s skin tone preference.…”
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"And I slip into it unawares": The function of bilingualism in Kobina Sekyi's The Blinkards (1915) by Nasseh, G

“…Furthermore, I argue that The Blinkards serves to demonstrate the ways in which multilingual colonial and postcolonial works can help to redress the Eurocentric tendencies of contemporary critical debates as to mono- and multilingual practices in a globalized world.…”

Wole Soyinka’s The Lion and the Jewel: by Md. Habibullah

“…It also foregrounds an “ideological resistance” in the drama against Eurocentric politico-cultural hegemonizing and hybridizing effort. …”
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Rethinking Algerian Visibility and Invisibility in Ali au Pays des Merveilles by Chengxi Li

“…The article argues that Abouda and Bonnamy’s stylistic devices are in line with those of the Third Cinema, providing an alternative that allows post-colonial sensibilities to challenge the official discourse and the self-claiming “universal” but indeed Eurocentric aesthetics.…”
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Rethinking comparative politics in the context of debates about decolonising higher education by Sally Matthews

“…The paper concludes with reflections on some of the shortcomings of the intervention discussed, especially in terms of the persistence of Eurocentric orientations among some of my students and the difficulty in fostering sustained interactive learning. …”
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