This paper considers fundamental questions raised in the current debate about Afrocentric research methods in the social sciences. The discussion covers feminist, critical theory, radical humanist, radical structuralist, ethnographic, naturalistic inquiry, constructivism, and phenomenological inquiry approaches to research. The working definition of Afrocentric research methodology is primarily...

Based on his academic background in multicultural music education and ethnomusicology, Huib Schippers developed the Seven-Continuum Transmission Model (SCTM) 2004 to describe teaching situations of world music. The current study adopted SCTM as a framework investigate Chinese teachers’ perceptions context issues (tradition, authenticity, context) transmission modes (analytic/holistic, notation ...

Abstract Global regulatory competition is a recent phenomenon that confronts us in various different fields, ranging from food and chemical safety to climate change, animal welfare environmental law. The digital economy not immune this trend, it seems highly unlikely will soon come an end when we consider the radical differences between European Union United States with respect importance they ...

Abstract Calls to decolonise the curriculum gain traction across academe. To a great extent, movement echoes demands of decolonisation era itself, period from which academics draw both impetus and legitimacy. In this article, we examine movement’s purchase when applied teaching international law. We argue that reinvigorates debates about origins law, centring its violent foundations as well Eur...

Abstract This essay addresses the revival of culturalist assumptions in historical archival studies and suggests an alternative framework. Rather than provenance, it privileges textual circulation; rather civilizational divides between supposedly distinct “European” “Islamic” archivalities, highlights mutability commensurability as defining elements a broadly shared, if inherently dynamic, inte...

We are currently experiencing a planetary crisis that will lead, if worst comes to worst, the end of entire world as we know it. Several feminist scholars have suggested Earth is stay livable for humans and nonhumans alike, ways in which many human beings – particularly wealthy parts world, infested with Eurocentrism, (neo)colonialism, neoliberalism, capitalism inhabit this planet requires radi...

The analysis of world-systems has been great influence for the deployment so-called decolonial turn. first works done by Mignolo, Quijano, Dussel and Grosfoguel embraced contributions world systems to geopolitically locate colonial matrix power. However, despite deep anti-Eurocentric criticism positioning, it difficult overcome limits Eurocentrism that persists in approaches Wallerstein. In sen...

This lead article in a JCMS symposium marking 20 years of normative power provides prospective intervention into thinking through the rest century by taking language Arrival, 2016 speculative fiction film based on Ted Chiang's 1998 short ‘Story Your Life’ and applying it to double-decolonising anthropocentrism capitalist culture Eurocentrism order arrive at planetary politics. The will first re...