Island Geopoetics and the Postcolonial Discourse of Sardinia in German-language Literature by Valentina Serra

“…This paper aims to give an account of this discourse to highlight, from a diachronic perspective, the construction of the image of an island more or less influenced by a Eurocentric perspective. Using a geopoetic approach, several texts are analysed in a hermeneutic process which outlines not only the island’s colonial past, but also the construction of a recent neocolonial project made up of uncontrolled urbanization, industrialization, mass tourism, and (nuclear) pollution.…”
Get full text

Indian Boarding School Gothic in <i>Older than America</i> and <i>The Only Good Indian</i> by Elizabeth Kella

“…Each of these Native-centered films displays a cinematic desire to decenter Eurocentric histories and to counter mainstream American genres with histories and forms of importance to Native North American peoples. …”
Get full text

Dialogic art history by Wenyi Qian

“…The volumes succeed in relativising and revising presumed universality of Eurocentric concepts such as ‘figurine’ and ‘landscape’ for a more inclusive discussion in the future, while offering constructive, multidirectional dialogues across regional specialisms. …”
Get full text

Translingualism as Creative Revolt: Rewriting Dominant Narratives of Translingual Literature by Hannah Tate Williams

“…This paper shows that this Eurocentric mindset persists in translingual literature, negatively affecting critical accounts of translingual authors whose work falls outside of monolingual parameters. …”
Get full text

The Politics of Young Children through the ‘Epistemologies of the South’ by Vinnarasan Aruldoss

“…The paper further deliberates on how such a &#8216;decolonial imagination&#8217; would help us to reframe Eurocentric liberalist thinking and its conceptualisations of childhood and the political, practiced in a zone of messy social reality. …”
Get full text

From the Generic to the Ultrablack by Norman Madarasz

“…Then we discuss Paquette’s argument, according to which she claims Alain Badiou’s philosophy is “Eurocentric” and ultimately blind to “race” as understood within the framework of contemporary North American Critical Race Theory. …”
Get full text

Reimaging reflexivity through a critical theoretical framework: Autoethnographic narratives on becoming a (de)colonised researcher by Danica Sims

“…We are collectively responsible for epistemically- and socially-just research, which means the disruption of normative and hegemonic (i.e., White, Western, Eurocentric, and colonial) research and reflexivity practices; and the development of ethical research that does not reproduce inequalities but welcomes and amplifies other ways of knowing, doing and being. …”
Get full text

Seeds of Myth: Exotic Disease Theory and Deconstructing the Australian Narrative of Indigenous Depopulation by Greg Blyton

“…But what is the evidence that these disease theories found in Australian history are anything more than Eurocentric constructions? An Indigenous approach to the topic, as undertaken in this paper, raises questions that are as yet without answers and which challenge conventional theoretical explanations. …”
Get full text

The Opportunity of Latin American Critical Development Thinking by Ana Estefanía Carballo

“…This renewed interest in Latin American development thinking is most welcome in a discussion that has largely prioritised a Western/Eurocentric lens in its focus. However, this new opportunity to engage with Latin American thinking should not be dissociated from the wealth of experiences, academic and otherwise, that this region has seen in the field of critical development. …”
Get full text

India and England in the Mirror. A Post-imperial Portrait of Tom Stoppard by Lucia Esposito

“…The issues dealt with, such as the centuries-old westernization of the Indian minds and culture on one side, and the Indianization of British language and customs on the other, are subtlety treated in art terms, as the reciprocal relationship between the two worlds conflates in the hybrid style of the portraits executed by the hand of an Indian painter who, notwithstanding, or thanks to, his mimic identity (in Homi Bhabha’s terms), becomes the mouthpiece of a fundamental ‘change of perspective’, from the Eurocentric representation of the Orient (in Edward Said’s terms) to the re-appropriation of a different point of view translating the achievement of the Nationalist movement that led India to independence in the Forties.…”
Get full text

From the Cloud to the Landfill: The Case of the Agbogbloshie Makerspace Platform and Akwasi Bediako Afrane’s TRONS by Cyrus Khalatbari

“…After placing these practices in dialogue with the Western and Eurocentric narratives around the materiality of digital interactions and infrastructure, it delves into two arts and design contexts that gravitate around the electronic waste landfill and processing site of Agbogbloshie (Ghana). …”
Get full text

De-marginalising and de-centring film studies in bodies, places and on screens by Berenike Jung, Derilene Marco

“…In doing so, they reflect on how engagements such as these keep many scholars and their scholarship confined to traditional Eurocentric and North American strategies, methods and endorsements of approval and relevance. …”
Get full text

Modernity and Interpellated Native Subjectivity in South Asia by Saeed Ur Rehman

“…But celebration of modernity is an effect of colonial triumphalism and the Eurocentric desire to abnegate other such attempts in world cultures. …”
Get full text

América : de colonia a reino y de periferia a centro by María Fernanda Justiniano

“…The contributions of Kenneth Pomeranz, Dennis Flynn and Arturo Giráldez give up the Eurocentric perspective to accept that the world of the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries is polycentric or at least Asian Centric.Meanwhile, the research in political history not only collapsed the old Weber State that life had influenced the colonial order, but saw the emergence of new political forms, which some deserve the name of kingdoms, eliminating the "heritage" of the conquest and colonization. …”
Get full text

Męskości argentyńskie a Trans-Atlantyk Witolda Gombrowicza by Tomasz Kaliściak

“…It enables unsealing the limits of the notion &rsquo;masculinity&rsquo; which is closed in Eurocentric definitions. Cultural diversity of Argentinian and Polish men might be expressed by postcolonial theories. …”
Get full text

Introduction: Thinking Places: Indigenous Humanities and Education by Marie Battiste, Cathryn McConaghy

“…It does, however, promote Indigenous humanity as affirmed in Article 1 of the 1966 UNESCO Declaration of the Principles of International Cultural Co-operation: “Each culture has a dignity and value which must be respected and preserved” (Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, 1966). In the Eurocentric versions of humanity, this concept is sometimes referred to as cultural diversity; yet Indigenous peoples prefer the concept of Indigenous humanities. …”
Get full text

Advancing Anti-Racism in Child Policy Advocacy by Nikki Jones, Lacey McNary, Rashaad Abdur-Rahman

“…Anti-racism enables child policy advocates to scrutinize and dismember the Eurocentric structures, biases, and practices that keep Black and Brown children and families entangled in the child welfare system. …”
Get full text

In Search of Protoglobalization in Seventeenth-century Dutch Paintings: a Didactic Experience by Nicola Contegreco

“…This paper illustrates the path of a didactic experience in lower secondary school in which the visual approach was accompanied by a global perspective, that is, using a perspective that allows you to go beyond the Eurocentric disciplinary model, to detect relationships and connections between different cultures within a trans-regional analysis and no longer limited to the nation-state. …”
Get full text

Footprints of Fascism in India: Implications for Local Muslims by Usama Hameed

“…Fascism, a twentieth century Eurocentric phenomenon, seems to be knocking at the world's doors through a number of populist regimes. …”
Get full text

A Southern Feminist Approach to the Criminology of Mobility by Rimple Mehta

“…While much of the mobility of displaced populations is within the Global South, the scholarship around the criminology of mobility is largely United States/Eurocentric. This article proposes a Southern feminist ethico-political lens from which we can view or engage with the criminology of mobility. …”
Get full text