In Search of Context, In Search of Home by Sujata Goel

“…Her account addresses larger issues such as Orientalism and Eurocentrism in the global, contemporary dance sphere.…”
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Resonance as a medio-passive, emancipatory and transformative power: a reply to my critics by Hartmut Rosa

“…In this response, I take the relationship between resonance theory and the tradition of critical theory as the starting point, and discuss the contributions of the five commentators in terms of the focus of resonance theory and its extension to critical theory, the questions and concerns that such an extension may raise, and the overcoming and reflecting on Eurocentrism in resonance theory. Finally, I will conclude with some reflections on their approach.…”
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Derrida’s Black Accent: Decolonial Deconstruction by Barnor Hesse

“…It addresses and investigates Derrida’s infrequent claim that his approach to deconstruction was always focused on racism and Eurocentrism, by revealing and theorizing what is designated as ‘Derrida’s Black Accent’. …”
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Alternative discourses in Southeast Asia by Syed Farid Alatas

“…Alternative discourses are works that attempt to debunk ideas that have become entrenched in the social sciences, partly as a result of colonialism and the continuing Eurocentrism in the social sciences. In the context of Southeast Asia as well as much of the non-Western world, alternative discourses in the social sciences could also be referred to collectively as counter- Eurocentric social science. …”
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Historiographies of International Law from a Chinese Perspective by Maria Adele Carrai

“…One objective of the emerging global history of international law is to broaden its scope in an attempt to overcome Eurocentrism. In this context, China, not only as an emerging global power that can influence the creation of the normative principles grounding the future world order, but also with its history of international law, offers a counter-teleology to the classic progress narrative of international law understood as a science. …”
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Perspectives on Chinese, Buddhist, and Environmental Philosophy by Eric S. Nelson

“…The imaginary that some cultures are civilized and complex and others natural and simple has been complexly mediated through the historical entanglements and interactions between, on the one hand, colonialism and Eurocentrism and, on the other, varieties of anti-colonial resistance and the postcolonial formation of contemporary national, cultural, and religious identities. …”
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Political Islam in the Aftermath of “Islamic State” by S. Sayyid

“…This essay is an exercise in critical Muslim studies and argues that no understanding of political Islam can be successful without a critique of Eurocentrism.…”
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Harmonia Rosales: la realidad histórica a través del sincretismo religioso en The Harvest by Paula Martínez Bernal

“…Specifically, her paintings question the white Eurocentrism that continues to exert abuses of power today towards minorities since colonial times. …”
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Self-Consciousness, Decoloniality and Pluriversal Thinking in Augusto Monterroso's Literary Production by Lucy Bell

“… Eurocentrism, coloniality and race have been largely absent from the small body of scholarship dedicated to the Guatemalan writer Augusto Monterroso. …”
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Mission and Submission by Meghan Cleghorn

“…Historical evidence supports the hypothesis that ideologies of Eurocentrism and elitism existed within the Presbyterian Church in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Trinidad, and aspects of these ideologies persist today. …”
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Intelectuais e epistemologia crítica latino-americana by Miglievich-Ribeiro, Adelia

“…Recalls the tradition of anti-colonial nineteenth-century thought on the continent to see it highlighted the intellectual efforts of Darcy that anticipates the displacement of hegemonic forms of knowledge in his critique of eurocentrism to assert Latin America as an important locus of enunciation, this displacement that characterizes the efforts of the theoretical movement ‘modernity-coloniality’ of which one of the most significant representatives is Walter Mignolo. …”
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The orientalism in the thinking of Marx and Engles by جلال بدلة, محسن المحمد

“…Moreover, we will try to perform an epistemological reading following the steps of the French philosopher Althusser when we announce the death of the texts in which penetrates the ideology of orientalism because they contradict with the materialist conception of history, that is to say, we admit the rupture between the texts that treated the Orient and in which appeared the orientalist conceptions (fixed characters,Eurocentrism) and the other texts from which this orientalist ideology was absent. …”
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Critical Realist Foundations for Berlin Comparative Musicology(vergleichende Musikswissenschaft) by Verstegen Ian

“…The balance of natural science explanation and phenomenal experience is a useful model for overcoming Eurocentrism in comparative ethnomusicology, relying both on third-person tools and indigenous music systems. …”
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The orientalism in the thinking of Marx and Engles by galal Badleh, Mohsen almohammad

“…Moreover, we will try to perform an epistemological reading following the steps of the French philosopher Althusser when we announce the death of the texts in which penetrates the ideology of orientalism because they contradict with the materialist conception of history, that is to say, we admit the rupture between the texts that treated the Orient and in which appeared the orientalist conceptions (fixed characters,Eurocentrism) and the other texts from which this orientalist ideology was absent. …”
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A Simple Approach to Overcoming Euro-Specific Feudalism by Ibrahim Mulushewa Eshete

“…I argue that this is mostly because of the extent to which they have unconsciously imported and internalized Eurocentrism. In particular, it is because they have been using a Euro-specific notion or definition of feudalism as their yardstick. …”
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Prédire l’avenir ou relancer le devenir ? by Bérénice Palaric

“…The formal motives that structure their argumentation present strong analogies, for instance the renewal of the philosophy of history and universal history, the criticism of Eurocentrism, belief in the ineluctability of democracy and the emphasis on its dangers, and the ambivalent use of conservatism in the legitimization of ideological positions.…”
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Anti-colonial thought and global social theory by Sujata Patel

“…From the late 1980s onward, global social theory has been introduced to a new perspective variously called indigeneity, endogeneity, Orientalism, Eurocentrism, post-colonial, decolonial, and Southern sociology/social sciences. …”
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Noor-Eesti enesekoloniseerimisprojekt. Teine osa Olulised kirjandusmõtteviisid . The Self-Colonization Project of Young Estonia. Part II. Modes of Literary Thinking and Relations w... by Tiit Hennoste

“…The point of departure for the Young Estonian approach to literature was eurocentrism. They took a superior and negative view of existing Estonian literature, which they regarded as having fallen drastically behind Europe. …”
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A Simple Approach to Overcoming Euro-Specific Feudalism by Ibrahim Mulushewa Eshete

“…I argue that this is mostly because of the extent to which they have unconsciously imported and internalized Eurocentrism. In particular, it is because they have been using a Euro-specific notion or definition of feudalism as their yardstick. …”
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Kant and Critical Hermeneutics. Historicity and Teleology in Kant’s Later Philosophy, and Its Ethical and Political Potential by Gašper Pirc

“…Makkreel, Hannah Arendt, and Paul Ricoeur, the following discussion intends to provide an alternative model for the hermeneutics of social and political existence, and show the basis for a political ethics, founded upon the reflective potential inherent in the rational, yet historically, contextually, and intersubjectively grounded being-in-the-world, while being attentive to the dangers of Eurocentrism and the justification of pathological political practices. …”
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