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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Eurocentrism"”.
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Bong Joon-Ho’s Transnational Challenge To Eurocentrism
<p>Through a narrative analysis of three of Bong Joon-ho’s films: <em>The Host </em>(2006), <em>Snowpiercer</em> (2013), and <em>Okja</em> (2017), this thesis explores the impact of global media flow of transnational cinema, foregrounding its potential to convey broader (but more effective) social …
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Poisoned Ground, The Roots of Eurocentrism: Teleology, Hierarchy, and Anthropocentrism
The dissertation starts with the premise that Eurocentrism, in philosophy and many other areas, continues to be a problem. It comes from the belief in teleological history, which itself rests on hierarchical, anthropocentric metaphysics. To combat the negative effects of Eurocentrism, we must …
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Decolonising legal research: Developing legal theory to articulate Māori and non-Māori legal research paradigms equitably
… order to make more visible the manner in which Eurocentrism permeates decolonising legal research and stifles the potential future social development of Māori. Since Linda Tuhiwai Smith’s call to decolonise research, significant progress has been made with regard to the inclusion of principles …
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Umbanda's relationship with the natural environment & religious intolerance
… televangelism, Kardecian Spiritism and Eurocentrism.
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Views from the Other Side: Colonial Culture and Anti-Colonial Sentiment in Germany Around 1800
… however, stresses the co-existence of both Eurocentrism and the critique of colonial violence and understands this seeming contradiction as a response to the challenge from cultural and colonial difference. I identify emotion or the mode of sentimentalism as the channel through which the …
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The Wartime Experience of the League of Nations, 1939-47
… history serving as a barometer of the diminished Eurocentrism and rising Atlanticism of international cooperation. This period was emblematic of the challenges of internationalism with the League’s international civil service splintering under the weight of internal and external pressures. The …
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Negotiating identities in post-apartheid South Africa : black African managers' experiences in an English-speaking university
… identity in an environment dominated by Eurocentrism in one of the oldest English-speaking universities in South Africa. The theoretical framework was informed Berger & Luckmann's (1966) "Social Construction of Reality", in particular, their concepts of subjectivity and intersubjectivity; …
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Becoming Cosmopolitan? Roots, Emotions, and Everyday Diversity Encounters amongst New Chinese Migrants in New Zealand
… In doing so, the research transcends the Eurocentrism that dominates cosmopolitan theories. Lastly, I draw attention to the emotional dimension of cosmopolitanism and migrant mobilities, with a focus on the role of emotions in generating cosmopolitan sociability and building intercultural …
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Re-visiting the correlation between movement of Chinese millet and painted pottery before the 2nd millennium BC
… context by deconstructing ‘hyper-diffusionism’, ‘Eurocentrism’ and Andersson’s hypothesis, adding to the collective work in the field of archaeological history across the past hundred years.
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Distorting the Life of Maca (Lepidium Miyenii)
… through the effects of coloniality of power and Eurocentrism which is embedded in the culture; as a result, it has affected the way Peruvians have and continue to interact with maca and dominant business actors. The research conducted in Peru reveals the actors involved paved the way for the …
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O CANADA, WHOSE HOME AND NATIVE LAND? AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NARRATIVE INQUIRY INTO THE CRITICAL ROLE OF CURRICULUM IN IDENTITY AFFIRMATION
… to citizenship, from multiculturalism to eurocentrism, from parent involvement to parent engagement, and from a racialized mother to a researcher are narratives of “gaps, silences, and exclusions shaped in the bumping places children and families experience in schools” (Clandinin, Huber, …
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Decolonising Cosmopolitanism
… into dialogue with decoloniality. Eurocentrism is embedded in the core assumptions, categories, normative foundations, and analytical frameworks of Western cosmopolitanism – above all, in the disciplinary narrative of Western origins/cosmopolitan ends and its agent/patient binary. …
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Choices, challenges and the power of integration: regionalism and confederation in the East African community - a hypothesis generating study
… within regional theory, including the issues of Eurocentrism and the false dichotomy between politics and economics within integration. In addition, it includes ideas around nationalism, identity and the role of the state and citizenry within regions. It also introduces the idea of a …
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Constructing the Architectonics and Formulating the Articulation of Islamic Governance: A Discursive Attempt in Islamic Epistemology
… specific meta-narrative upon others, as part of Eurocentrism. Many, however, have criticized this Eurocentric paradigm, since the non-Western communities with their own constructed version of ‘good’ in governance have also proven their ability to develop and prosper in the present or in the past. …
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The psychological dimension of living with fear of terrorism: Social identity, existential anxiety, and media influence
The purpose of this research was to investigate various dimensions of fear, terrorism, existentialism, and the wider societal implications of fearing terrorism, as well as examine the mechanisms influencing such fear and review existing literature. To achieve these objectives, the study recruited …
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Beholding the Beauty of Self: The Psychological Integration of the Afrocentric-Self among African-American Females Socialized in a Eurocentric Aesthetic
Self-esteem and body image disturbances prominently figure into many physical and psychological health disorders such as depression, eating disorders, anxiety disorders, and chemical dependency. In Euro-American culture, media images of femininity and physical attractiveness reinforce generally …
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The discourse of sŏnjin’guk: South Korea’s Eurocentric modern identities and worldviews
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Indigenous Leadership: A Talking-Circle Dialogue with Cree Leaders
The study of leadership is gaining popularity as evidenced by the increasing number of leadership development programs in both corporate and academic environments. Therefore, the way that leadership is defined becomes important. Unfortunately, the majority of literature on leadership emphasizes a …
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Holmes, Alice, and Ezeulu: Western Rationality in the Context of British Colonialism and Western Modernity
<p>This thesis examines Western rationality, contextualizing that subject in British colonialism and Western modernity. Using Scott Lash's description of academic characterizations of modernity, I explore the “high" modernity of the social sciences represented in the books Alice's Adventures in …
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