Abstract This document, translated from the original French, is an edited transcript of a conversation between Senegalese painter Iba Ndiaye, French art historian Jean Laude, and moderator, Roger Pillaudin. It took place on occasion Festival des arts et cultures africaines in Royan, France (March 1977), was later broadcast radio channel Culture. What stands out way Laude seeks to negate Ndiaye'...

The article concerns history, its origins, goals, and end. focuses on two concepts of historical development. One is the concept “end history” by Francis Fukuyama. article’s authors consider in detail main provisions this concept. However, emphasis critical reception within framework philosophy liberation (represented Arturo Andrés Roig). Roig’s criticism reveals Eurocentrism inherent shows tha...

Existing scholarship has demonstrated that theorising about security is Eurocentric. This leaves us with a partial account of the concept security, which presented as universal. in turn generates explanatory problems because we are only seeing part picture. Yet there have been few attempts to move beyond critiques Eurocentrism examine ‘elsewhere’. paper takes China its starting point, asking: w...

Abstract This paper analyses faculty experiences tackling global knowledge asymmetries by examining the decolonisation of higher education in Africa aftermath 2015 ‘Rhodes Must Fall’ student uprising. An overview literature reveals a rich debate on defining ‘decolonisation’, starting from critique Eurocentrism to propositions alternate epistemologies. These debates are dominated Global North an...

Discussing a body of artwork made in Turkey's Kurdistan, I explore contemporary art's potential to facilitate critical insight into the (geo)politics ecology today. A significant strand growing geographical literature on focuses issues ecological import such as climate change, locating critique problematisation Eurocentric aesthetics for its links with colonialism and racialised humanism. Still...

The article reveals the features of formation and functioning aesthetic research in such two areas Marxism as Soviet Chinese. study identified three key stages development aesthetics – pre-war (the 1920s 1930s), late Stalinism Khrushchev thaw, period (1970-1980s). It should be noted that context Marxism, tasks were becomes influential in-demand science, included program "technical progress" "ed...

School texts on geography are an important but neglected repository of geographical knowledge and representations within the historiography of geography. During the period 1830-1918 geography school texts were influenced by European exploration, church sponsors of education, the mediation of religious and scientific explanation of the natural world, popular images of empire, and state education...