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Eurocentrism at the Margins
Lütfi Sunar
其他書名
Encounters, Critics and Going Beyond
出版Taylor & Francis Group, 2020-06-30
主題Political Science / International Relations / GeneralPolitical Science / GlobalizationSocial Science / Sociology / GeneralSocial Science / Regional Studies
ISBN036759661X9780367596613
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=liuTzQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Eurocentrism remains a prevailing feature of Western-dominated social scientific perspectives, tending to ignore alternative views originating outside the West and thus maintaining a form of scholarly hegemony. As such, there is an urgent need to reconsider Eurocentrism in social science, to ask whether it constitutes an obstacle to understanding social, problems and whether it is possible to go beyond Eurocentrism in the construction of reliable, more universal knowledge. At the same time, certain questions persist, particularly with regard to the extent to which recent revisionist challenges have really contributed to the surmounting of Eurocentric domination, and whether the constant repetition of the concept serves to reinforce it. This book engages with the central problems of Eurocentrism in the social sciences, bringing together the work of scholars from around the world to offer a critique of this perspective from both European and non-European positions, thus shedding light on the binaries that often come into being in debates in this field. Thematicaliy organized and addressing a range of questions, including Eurocentrism in historical studies, in the understanding of religion and civilization and in the study of international relations, as well as in the institutionalization and professionalization of research and discourses on modernization in the Middle East, Eurocentrism at the Margins will appeal to scholars with interests in knowledge production and circulation, and Eurocentrism and post-colonialism in the social sciences. Book jacket.