Abstract Children’s books can create opportunities for children to see themselves as well others in different settings and stories, but cultural details specificity within these stories play an important role the messages that take away. Therefore, present study aims provide insight concerning ethnic diversity various cultures a subset of popular Dutch young are likely be exposed to. Books aime...

The article “Cinema and its aesthetic-pedagogical dimension: Bacurau the Exulic Logic” aims to express dimension of cinema, reaching many social fabrics for being a structure that allows continuous action in production subjectivity formation taste interest consuming agents, through possible representativeness representation. We use Logic as methodology Souza (2016) understand relationships betw...

Scholarship on the origins of modern territoriality and modernist conception territory has largely been confined to Europe its colonial histories. Few attempts have made understand from an alternative epistemic starting point. This article moves beyond critiques Eurocentrism by examining territorial metamorphosis Qing Empire China. Like United States Russia, China retained early continental pos...

This research takes up the dialectical presentation of Terrorist by John Updike to underscore actively mediating presence reader(s) in treating meaning as an event. Drawing on Rosenblatt’s ‘aesthetic mode’ reading, this paper argues that determinate and indeterminate meaning(s) perpetuate Islamophobia, ethnocentrism, Eurocentrism (mis)informed reader. The central character Terrorist, Ahmad, is ...

Abstract East Asia is increasingly at the centre of debates among International Relations (IR) scholars. China's political, economic, and military ascendency considered as a crucial test case for main approaches to IR. Despite this renewed attention, mainstream theories employed analyse contemporary are still remarkably Euro-centric. A wave studies has argued in favour broad ‘decolonization’ th...

I plead for writing a world history that is as comprehensive and systematic as possible. It should offer a more humanocentric alternative to western Eurocentrism. This history should seek maximum “unity in the diversity” of human experience and development. Therefore, we should not only make comparisons over time and space, we should also seek more connections among distant and seemingly dispar...

We have heard many times expressions such as: ?empty words?, talk?, ?hot air?, but is there really an empty ?phraseology?, one that does not mean anything, i.e., a clear referent (the idea it refers to)? Showing the possibilities of phraseology without meaning, paper examines its use in politics, focusing on bureaucratic language shapes our political reality, and can be found constitutional doc...

The article is devoted to the role and place of Quechua in colonial Peru, which most widely spoken native language both American continents. A comparative analysis a number grammars dictionaries (including records) written 16th‑17th centuries by representatives clergy has become basic method for recent scientific investigation. Those were who took active part process «language conquest» led int...

A panoptic (Foucault) and not synoptic vision of literature, literary education in particular, is needed. This order to “tear down” the categories or rigid borders that surround “center” canon so called marginal which full prejudices, from a time history anchored stereotypes national literature eurocentrism decolonial thought correctly taking apart. It necessary visualize diversity by integrati...

Abstract To better understand how a particular community understands its story, we look at the philosophy, aesthetics, and historical–cultural contexts of those who have written history. This article analyses an example colonial era historiography entitled The Progress Dogma by Scottish evangelical theologian James Orr. It critically evaluates Orr’s historiographical approach is once asset liab...