#eurocentrism — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #eurocentrism, aggregated by home.social.
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Eurocentrism, hypocrisy and racism:
Three dimensions of a Western-dominated global (dis)order #Eurocentrism #Imperialism #Racism
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Orientalism and the Denial of Muslim Political Agency
Western political discourse often treats Muslims as politically illegible, interpreting Muslim societies through secular or liberal frameworks. This critique examines how Orientalism embedded in Western political thought denies Muslim political agency and frames Islamic resistance as a threat rather than a response to imperial violence.https://wrzky.com/orientalism-and-the-denial-of-muslim-political-agency/
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Orientalism and the Denial of Muslim Political Agency
Western political discourse often treats Muslims as politically illegible, interpreting Muslim societies through secular or liberal frameworks. This critique examines how Orientalism embedded in Western political thought denies Muslim political agency and frames Islamic resistance as a threat rather than a response to imperial violence.https://wrzky.com/orientalism-and-the-denial-of-muslim-political-agency/
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#G7 #israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #genocide / #internationallaw / #uno / #icc / #doublestandards / #eurocentrism
„Why the Eurocentric Critique May Have Reached Its Limits.“
https://verfassungsblog.de/international-criminal-law-of-the-west/
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#Eurocentrism is the biggest #fraud in #education, eurocentrism is the antithesis of education.
Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot
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Is Islam Compatible with Modern Values?
When people ask whether Islam is compatible with modernity, they often assume Western liberalism as history’s endpoint. Islam does not exist to validate modernity. It exists to form an ethical life, challenge power, and expose the violence hidden inside “progress.” -
#WWII #China #history #Eurocentrism #DayOfInfamy #FalseFlag
"September 18, 1931, a date humanity must never forget.
Japanese troops blew up a section of railway under their control near Shenyang in northeast China.
They accused Chinese troops of sabotage as a pretext for attack, and then bombarded the Beidaying barracks near Shenyang the same evening.
By 1932, Japan had seized China's three northeastern provinces, installing the puppet regime of Manchukuo.
(. . .)
Japan's invasion of Northeast China wasn't just a Sino-Japanese affair.
It stemmed from Japan's 'Continental Policy': first seize Manchuria as a base, then attack the Soviet Union, and Southeast Asia.
Its imperialist war of territorial encirclement, however, was not stopped by the League of Nations, the United Nation's precursor.
After the League affirmed China's sovereignty over Manchuria and condemned Japan's violation of its territorial integrity, the Japanese empire withdrew from the League in 1933.
(. . .)
To this day, Eurocentric World War Two narratives, by obscuring Japan's initiation of aggression, enable historical evasion by the country's right-wing factions.
Only by fully restoring World War Two's historical and geographical scope can we safeguard peace and advance a shared future for humanity in our century."
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-11-15/VHJhbnNjcmlwdDg3MzU5/index.html
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New in our electronic collection:
➡️ What is #European? On Overcoming #Colonial and Romantic Modes of Thought
🔗 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/166462
#Europe #Eurocentrism #history #histodons #PoliticalScience #books #bookstodon #library #OpenAccess
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Siba N'Zatioula Grovogui on how colonial legacies shape global governance
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Siba N'Zatioula Grovogui on how colonial legacies shape global governance
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Siba N'Zatioula Grovogui on how colonial legacies shape global governance
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Siba N'Zatioula Grovogui on how colonial legacies shape global governance
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New on our blog!
EU Deforestation-Free Regulations
#ClimateChange #Colonialism #Environment #Eurocentrism #SustainableDevelopment
https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/eu-deforestation-free-regulations/
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New on our blog!
Eurocentrism in Ukraine’s Ratification of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
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Everyone acts like “Model Minority” Syndrome is something shockingly new, when it's been a feature of the United States since its founding; promoted and defended by law, social custom, and wealthy corporate interests for centuries.
Latino Trump Supporters Believe He Won't Deport “Good” Families
#Latinos, #BIPOC, #MAGA, #Trumpism, #Republican, #Centrists, #Eurocentrism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqCyRTsO960 -
@faab64 The term is clearly completely Eurocentric, just as “the Far East”. One far east of Europe, one in the middle. It’s interesting though, your question has made me realise that the term “Far East” is, rightly, not really used anymore, the Middle East” is completely entrenched. #Eurocentrism
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Yes, though there are many Euriopean equivalents, with deeply, deeply embedded #Eurocentrism and all that comes with it. My whole family for example. It infuriates me more and more, the superiority, the total lack of acknowledgement of extreme privilege.. the total conviction that “we” are nice, that it is others who are the problem
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Did Brazil ever have something like a "one drop rule"?
The answer may surprise you
Black Brazil Today
#BlackMastodon #RacializedClass #AntiBlackness #Eurocentrism #WhiteSupremacy #OneDropRule
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Black love can't heal us until we deconstruct our adoration of whiteness!
Black Brazil Today
#BlackMastodon #AfroBrazilian #Whiteness #Eurocentrism #WhiteSupremacy #BlackSelfesteem #BlackBrazilian #MixedRace #BlackIdentity #Amorpreto #BlackLove #AfricanDiaspora #BlackinBrazil #InterRacial #Whitewashing #Embranquecimento
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"In all, 139 out of 193 UN member states recognise Palestine as a state."
I didn't realise so many countries had already recognised #Palestine and that Ireland was so far behind the curve. #eurocentrism
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https://press.coop/@AJEnglish/112260254868707879
[email protected] - Ireland, Spain, Norway moving closer to recognising a Palestinian stateSpanish PM Pedro Sanchez says declarations on Palestine will be made "when the conditions are appropriate". #press
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@pettter yes. Of course it is racism and white supremacy. I should have just said it, like you did. Now wondering why i often stop short of saying that. Like - i’ve been doing a little thread on #Eurocentrism here and actually what i want to say is: eurocentrism is racism and white supremacy and nothing else! But i never use those words. I have to just start doing it.
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- #Eurocentrism is not benign or innocent. I mean, you might think it’s just people who don’t know any better, whose horizons are a bit limited. But let’s at least recognise that this ignorance is deliberately fostered by our education systems and collective moral narratives; and that many of us are complicit in constructing and maintaining these narratives and wilful collective ignorance, ignoring of the suffering of others.
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- #Eurocentrism is living in a “Gilded bubble”, as Naomi Klein puts it here in this briliiant recording, and simultaneously not fully realising that it is a gilded bubble but also doing everything to protect it. Not letting a genocide elsewhere that is actively sponsored by your own government, in which every day more people, more children die, prick your conscience, your sense of moral superiority.
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@albertcardona 4/n
- #Eurocentrism is: truly believing that the EU is a genuinely benign project that is about peace, harmony and cooperation, a beacon of goodness in the world; and not knowing or wilfully ignoring that it is also, or even primarily, a project by and for capital interests, and that in general it protects European interests over others (and that its borders, eg #Ceuta, are violent, killing people). And yes, still talking about certain family members
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-#Eurocentrism - understood as the mainstream views of the so-called Western world – means unwittingly committing to never tasting the best food Earth can offer, nor listening to the best music, nor witnessing the most breathtaking landscapes. And to consider it all as expendable in the name of not having be moderately inconvenienced.
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- #Eurocentrism is being completely comfortable with only reading European/US authors, only listening to European/US music, not realising that there is so much you are missing out on (“world” music doesn’t count - what an awful Eurocentric concept in itself).
-#Eurocentrism is not having any real interest in or knowledge about the rest of the world and thinking that is ok.(And yes i am writing certain family members. That’s what this is about).
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What is #Eurocentrism? A few ways to think about it - not based on specific reading, just my thoughts. Feel free to add!
- #Eurocentrism is talking about “European values” as self-evidently good, without stopping to think where that idea comes from & what it says about you and your knowledge of attitude to the rest of the world
- #Eurocentrism is being a white European living in Europe, never thinking about colonialism and how your comfort & wealth, your morning coffee, derives from it
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@rachelstrohm I appreciate your toots. I really struggle with Mastodon’s #Eurocentrism and lack of news from elsewhere. I used to really enjoy and learn so much from Nigerian twitter; i really miss all that. Just now briefly went in and saw a Twitter space on #Hunger in Nigeria going on right now, and then found countless posts on how bad things are under #Tinubu, real hunger in so many places. Knew far too little about that, too! Trying to find ways to get and share more global news here.
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Food for thought: On the #Eurocentrism and #racism of #European #philosophical thinking.
"Thanks to Gaza, European philosophy has been exposed as ethically bankrupt"
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/war-gaza-european-philosophy-ethically-bankrupt-exposedVersión ES: "Gracias a Gaza, la filosofía europea ha evidenciado su falta de ética"
https://ctxt.es/es/20240101/Firmas/45328/gaza-europa-filosofos-habermas-hipocresia-deshumanizacion-israel-sionismo-hamid-dabashi.htm -
“The moral bankruptcy of Habermas’s statement on Palestine marks a turning point in the colonial relationship between European philosophy and the rest of the world. The world has been awoken from the false slumber of European ethno-philosophy.”
Excellent piece by Hamid Dabashi #Eurocentrism is awful and so over.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/war-gaza-european-philosophy-ethically-bankrupt-exposed
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Does anyone have any advice here on how to make your Mastodon less eurocentric? I do regular searches, follow people from outside Europe/US whenever I come across them, etc, but it’s quite slow, hard work. I was wondering whether there is a more strategic way - ie is there a list of instances that are not Europe/US based, and from which I could follow one person each or something? Not interested in changing my own instance, just to get more global connections. #Eurocentrism
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I get pretty salty when discussions of the #Crusades refer to the Crusaders as "the Christians." Yes, the Crusaders were #Christians, and almost all Western European Christians supported the Crusades, but there were many more *local* Eastern Christians than there were European Christians in Jerusalem at any time. A statement about "the Christians" which does not include the Eastern Christians is just ignorance or special pleading.
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It always strikes me how the #ISO standard #language designations belie some lack of understanding of cultures that weren't brought in for them.
Like, the abbreviation for #한국 / #한글 (#Hangug / #Hangul) is "KO", for "#Korean", when that's not what the language is called by native speakers, nor is it really even a word in that language. I think the best one would have been "HG", but these people never asked someone who even knew a bit of the language.
Meanwhile, they correctly labeled #Deutsch as "DE", and not "#German", which is good because "German" is not a word in Deutsch and many people from Deutschland don't know English and might legitimately not know what it refers to.
It just feels like we're dealing with inconsistencies caused by legacy #eurocentrism when we use these old designations for modern technology: I'm coding a website in #HTML that I want to have options for EN, DE, ES, and KO, and that's super weird when you've learned enough of all four to know the reality.
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On the way back from #BeyondGrowth2023 conference I wrote a blog for #EnvironmentalPolitics journal. It's my impressions, so please take it as such. For me it was a mixture of feelings and tension btw. hope and achievement & the opposite. I write about #eurocentrism & #colonial mindset that remains unshaken.
The reflectiond of the panel 3. "Beyond Growth Beyond Europe" is missing from the blog, because I spotted it online only afterwards 😞
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https://archive.org/details/sounds-like-her
Sounds Like Her - Gender, Sound Art and Sonic Cultures by Christine Eyene; Cathy Lane; Salomé Voegelin
Topics
#AinBailey, #SoniaBoyce, #ChristineSunKim, #ElsaMbala, #MadeleineMbida, #LindaOKeeffe, #MagdaStawarskaBeavan, #soundart, #Africanartists, #Africanart, #Africansoundart, #genderinart, #eurocentrism, #antiblackness, #artandcolonialism, #artandimperialism, #artofCameroon, #artofKamerunCurator Christine Eyene challenges the Eurocentric and patriarchal frameworks that have informed the history of sound art and continue to define current practice.
Sounds Like Her is a challenge to the restrictive social construct of "female voices". The book re-frames how we experience the dynamic of sound as practiced by women from diverse cultures and gender identities.
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Remember the 18th and 19th centuries? That's when the work of categorizing the peoples of the world was closely bound up with #eurocentrism and #colonialism.
Good times, amiright? (No.)
Among other things, these brought you the concepts of "Semitic peoples" and "Semitic languages."
Today, "#Semitic" is pretty much a technical term in #linguistics.
Let's talk about anti-Jewish hate speech or hate crimes, if that's really the topic at hand.