EUROCENTRISM AT THE MARGINS by Lutfi Sunar (Editor), Professor Robert Holton ( 9781472466440 )

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EUROCENTRISM AT THE MARGINS
ENCOUNTERS, CRITICS AND GOING BEYOND

By:

Lutfi Sunar (Editor), Professor Robert Holton

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Hardback

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1472466446

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TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

20 May, 2016

Series:

Global Connections

Pages:

238

Synopsis:

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.Thematically organised and addressing a range of questions, including Eurocentrism in historical studies, in the understanding of religion and civilisation and in the study of international relations, as well as in the institutionalisation and professionalisation of research and discourses on modernisation 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.

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2 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white tables

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Ashgate Publishing Limited

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