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The Politics of Knowledge: Or, How to Stop Being Eurocentric
Author(s) -
Seth Sanjay
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
history compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.121
H-Index - 1
ISSN - 1478-0542
DOI - 10.1111/hic3.12153
Subject(s) - eurocentrism , politics , epistemology , human science , point (geometry) , psychology , sociology , political science , philosophy , law , anthropology , geometry , mathematics
In the last 20 years or so, a significant and growing body of work has sought to unveil, challenge and displace the ‘Eurocentric’ biases of the human sciences. The arguments advanced in these works vary, and the aim of this essay is both to survey this literature and to point out the differences between different ‘kinds’ or ‘types’ of ‘anti‐Eurocentrism’.