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Eurocentrism, Political Struggles and the Entrenched Will-to-Ignorance: An Introduction

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Eurocentrism, Racism and Knowledge

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This edited collection is an interdisciplinary production, bringing the work of international scholars and political activists within a wide range of approaches and disciplines, including History, Anthropology, Political Sociology, Philosophy, International Relations, Political Economy and the Sociology of Education. It addresses key contemporary issues in the critique of Eurocentrism and racism, in relation to debates on the production, sedimentation and circulation of (scientific) knowledge, historical narratives and memories in Europe and the Americas. It takes as its crucial starting point the concept of Eurocentrism as grounded in the project of Modernity and, in particular, its specific configuration of colonialism, history and Being which has led to the emergence of race as a key organizing principle in the modern world order from the geopolitical perspective of the creation of Europe/Europeanness, the expression of its hegemony and its contestation.

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  1. Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal

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Maeso, S.R., Araújo, M. (2015). Eurocentrism, Political Struggles and the Entrenched Will-to-Ignorance: An Introduction. In: Araújo, M., Maeso, S.R. (eds) Eurocentrism, Racism and Knowledge. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137292896_1

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