Within this temporal and spatial duality, hierarchies are assigned to the West rational, modern, developed and the non-West spiritual, traditional, underdeveloped.
The constructions of the category of the non-West though aiming to break down the universalizing impulse of these spatio-temporal binaries also end up rearticulating them. Thus, the characterization and binaries that constructed the colonial difference get reproduced.
The constructions of the categories of non-West and how it becomes re-articulated as such then not only continues to reproduce the colonial difference but also essentializes difference without bringing into discussion how that difference itself was constructed through the colonial encounter. Furthermore, these designations continue to narrate the Western as the originator of all developments ascribed as being good and progressive. These issues with the continued rearticulations of the non-West through the spatio-temporal hierarchies points to two interrogations that need to be furthered.
This requires an attention to not isolating Europe as a separate space and situating it within the international that it was acting in and discussing the different interactions, entanglements and interconnections between the different spaces. This would then mean analyzing Europe and other spaces as being coeval. To conclude, what enables Eurocentrism as a system of knowledge to get reproduced is the rearticulations of the spatio-temporal hierarchies that take Europe as an isolated space and situate it temporally as being ahead of everyone and everywhere else.
These reproductions are made possible because of the way in which the categories of the non-West is re-articulated. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Durham, N. C: Duke University Press. London: Routledge. After this our next task will be to go back to this definition and understanding of Eurocentrism to understand how this came about and what it takes to change it. Your email address will not be published.
Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email. Search for:. Alison Carter - Blog editor April 18th, What is Eurocentrism? This variant was sidelined because we see it as an analytic conclusion that we can reach through the results of our research, rather than as a condition whose existence is assumed prior to proving our hypothesis Having excluded those variants which we felt compromised clarity in our project, we were left with a definition of Eurocentrism made up of its ontological, utilitarian, and ethical applications.
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Eurocentrism is generally defined as a cultural phenomenon that views the histories and cultures of non-Western societies from a European or Western perspective. Eurocentrism, however, is not a social theory providing an interpretation of or a solution to pressing social issues, nor can it be simply used interchangeably with popular big words such as nationalism, ethnocentrism, xenophobia, chauvinism, Skip to main content Skip to table of contents.
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