Why is Eastern Europe still on the margins of colonial history? This historical silence is partly due to Western knowledge hegemony, but partly because Eastern Europeans have routinely positioned themselves as “always colonised” but “never […]
Címke: orientalism
Speaking from the Semi-Periphery: Decolonizing Geographical Knowledge Production in Socialist Hungary, 1960s to 1980s
In recent months I’ve prepared a new research plan/paper on the stuff I’ve been doing, connected to my work in the 1989 After 1989 project: The “spatial turn” in the history of scientific knowledge has called […]
Heinrich Rickert’s tripartite parallels
Greeks: Romans: Orientals Wissenchaft: state: religion thinking: will: feeling Rickert vs. Dilthey vs. Weber Ringer, Fritz K. (1990): The Decline of the German Mandarins: The German Academic Community, […]
Secular globalization as Westphalianism versus Islamism?
I simply can’t believe this entry on Fundamentalism by Bassam Tibi in the SAGE Encyclopedia of Political Theory (2010). It propagates as the process of “secular globalization” the so-called “Westphalian system of nation-states”, which is actually […]
Muslims condemning things
There’s this great tumbler called Muslims Condemning Things, which is about samples of muslims and their communities condemning violence, oppression, terrorism, etc. It shows great evidence, and acts as an excellent reminder for us about biased Eurocentric […]
When Europe Loved Islam
A very interesting Foreign Policy article on an important period of Western European and Muslim relations, worth to read. “Before the continent started banning hijab, European aristocrats used to change their names to Abdullah and Muhammad, and […]
Contribution of Arab geography to European “discoveries”
“Finally, maritime geography was the last kind discovered during the Ottoman Empire simultaneously with European “geography discoveries.” Columbus’ journey to the New World was motivated by Arab maritime geography. Vasco da Gama used Arab cartography […]
Zoltán Ginelli 