Guest guest Posted May 3, 2001 Report Share Posted May 3, 2001 Rajiv Malhotra [sMTP:rajiv.malhotra] skrev 3. mai 2001 22:41: > Blaut has spent many years on this precise topic, and is emphatic that > Eurocentrism is alive and well today, albeit in different guises and using > different language than before. > Thank you for the references! It would still be nice if you could give us a few short descriptions of what these scholars mean when they talk about Eurocentrism. Some practical examples! Just for pragmatic reasons: most of us don't have time to read all these books right away, but are curious about this. By the way: I notice that several of the authors mentioned are Western academics. The Indian authors are also people published in the West and at least partly members of American academia. That doesn't quite jibe with the portrait of Western academia as uniformly Eurocentric. Ironically, Mehta finds in the conservative Edmund Burke - a severe critic of Britain's arrogant, paternalistic colonial expansion - an alternative and more capacious liberal vision, according to the blurb on Amazon. Could it be that Westerners, just like Indians and everybody else, are a more differentiated group that we are given to understand? Those who are interested in Blaut's work may also want the following reference: James M. Blaut, Eight Eurocentric Historians, Hardcover - 228 pages (8 August, 2000) Guilford Pr; ISBN: 1572305908. Blaut was, by the way, a geographer, not a specialist in languages or cultural studies. His books are available on Amazon.com. Lars Martin Dr. art. Lars Martin Fosse Haugerudvn. 76, Leil. 114, 0674 Oslo Norway Phone: +47 22 32 12 19 Mobile phone: +47 90 91 91 45 Fax 1: +47 22 32 12 19 Fax 2: +47 85 02 12 50 (InFax) Email: lmfosse Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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