Postcolonial/Decolonial Critique and the Theory of International Relations by Aziz Elmuradov

“…Postcolonial/decolonial approaches foster critical engagement with Eurocentric narratives in social sciences, countering teleological or linear representations of modernity. …”
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Curricular rationales in a History Study Program associated with the Conquest of America by Humberto Álvarez Sepúlveda

“…The results show the predominance of technical and praxeological curricular rationality, since it is evident that the objectives and evaluation indicators of the mentioned thematic unit jointly intend the study of a Eurocentric and androcentric history, marked by the expeditions led by Christopher Columbus, Diego de Almagro and Pedro de Valdivia, and the work based on historical competences. …”
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Navigating Native Slipstream and Indigenous Futurism: Upending Western Tropes in Pakistani Speculative Art by Zafrah Khalid

“…Grounded in Dillon’s critical theoretical framework on indigenous futurism expounded in Walking the Clouds (2012), this study seeks to challenge and decolonize the genre by subverting Eurocentric science fiction tropes and fostering an Indigenous perspective within the seemingly colonized precinct of sci-fi digital art. …”
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Theorising the Islamic State: A Decolonial Perspective by Nkululeko Majozi

“…Through a conceptual discussion on terrorism and a critical assessment of the Eurocentric nature of security studies theories, both traditional and critical, I show how hegemonic Western epistemologies are able to conveniently ignore the European roots of terrorism in the foundation of Western modernity. …”
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Social entrepreneurship in sport: a peripheral country perspective by Denise Kamyuka, Laura Misener, Marisa Tippett

“…However, SES theory remains void of peripheral country perspectives and thus perpetuates the Eurocentric views of entrepreneurship. This paper used a decolonial feminist lens and Whittemore and Knafl’s methodology to conduct an integrated review of SES literature written in or about a peripheral country context. …”
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Las limitaciones paradigmáticas del concepto de hegemonía: China y el sur global by Daniel Ricardo Lemus Delgado

“…Based on a post-structuralist theoretical approach, the article analyzes the severe conceptual limitations in understanding China’s rise because the dominant concepts for understanding this process come from a Eurocentric view of the discipline of international relations. …”
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Reading the Locust Plague in the Prophecy of Joel in the Context of African Biblical Hermeneutics and the Decolonial Turn by Michael Ufok Udoekpo

“…Throughout history, scholars, theologians, and exegetes of differing schools of thought and from numerous locations have offered various interpretations for Joel’s prophecy and subjected it to diverse Eurocentric and Americo-centric hermeneutical methods. …”
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An Impact Study Of Hymnody On Selected Ghanaian Churches by Edwin Boateng Afriyie

“…Findings indicated that 41% of 300 informants confirmed hymnody as powerful and transformative, but elitist and excluded the non-literate. Eurocentric and Afrocentric perspectives attended the analysis of Hymnody. …”
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In the Name of Conservation by Kaiyi Zhu

“…Through an analysis of the different layers of disseminating and receiving knowledge in transnational exchanges, it explicitly points out the divergence between the Eurocentric concept of conservation and the Chinese tradition of treating historic buildings and sites. …”
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Claude Sumner and the Quest for an Ethiopian Philosophy by Fasil Merawi

“…I will discuss the contributions of Claude Sumner in light of questioning Eurocentric bias that undermined the existence of non-western philosophies, escaping the charge of ethno-philosophy, and situating Ethiopian philosophy on different modalities of Ethiopian experience. …”
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Analysis of strategies in translating idiomatic expressions from English into Malay by Farah Syazana Suhaimi

“…Even though idioms are omnipresent in majority, if not all languages, identifying and translating idiomatic expressions remain a challenging aspect of the translation process (Adelnia & Dastjerdi, 2011). Due to the Eurocentric bias in translation studies as argued by Haroon & Abdul Majid (2015), few researchers have addressed idiom translation strategies from English to Malay. …”
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Awareness of Islamic English among Muslim students in Malaysia by Adam, Zalika, Parveen Lallmamode , Sheila

“…Abstract This paper adopts a critical examination of the Americano-Eurocentric perspective of the teaching of the English Language in the Muslim world. …”
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Postcolonial identities in Russophone women’s writing from the Caucasus and central Asia by Koplatadze, T

“…The project considers Russian studies as an expanding, trans-geographical field, while also enriching postcolonial studies by expanding its Eurocentric hermeneutics to include territories that are at most debatably ‘European’.…”

Decolonising knowledge: Enacting the civic role of the university in a community-based project by Mary McAteer, Lesley Wood

“…In the Global South, the potential for the Eurocentric knowledges and power structures to dominate such partnerships is pervasive. …”
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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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Context and theorizing in the global South: Challenges and opportunities for an international dialogue by Güliz Ger, Maribel Carvalho Suarez, Thaysa Costa do Nascimento

“…This task in turn demands thinking outside the commonly used Eurocentric prism. How can Brazilian scholars say something that would be of interest globally and have an impact on the work done in the global North? …”
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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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Decolonizing ELT teacher education by incorporating knowledge of local communities in the teaching practicum [version 1; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations] by Luz Mary Quintero, Amparo Olarte Clavijo

“…Despite significant advances in the epistemological frameworks that guide teacher education in Colombia and elsewhere, it continues to be governed mostly by traditional Eurocentric paradigms. Decolonizing teacher education requires epistemological moves to resignify the plurality of local knowledges and praxis. …”
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Whose Pictures, Whose Reality? Lines of Tradition in the Development of Topics, Negativity, and Power in the Photojournalistic Competition World Press Photo by Alexander Godulla, Daniel Seibert, Rosanna Planer

“…Participating European countries have a significantly higher average number of jury members, participants, and placements than participating countries from Africa, Asia, and South America, which seems to account for a dominant Eurocentric view. Implications and critical discussions are summarized in three interim conclusions at the end of this extended paper.…”
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Epistemology as Politics and the Double-bind of Border Thinking: Lévi-Strauss, Deleuze and Guattari, Mignolo by Timothy Nicholas Laurie

“…Foregrounding the critical value of philology for ‘de-colonising’ theory, Mignolo argues that Eurocentric cultural comparisons serve to legitimate particular ways of knowing within contested fields of representation. …”
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