Encountering Other Cultural Universes on the Brink of Chaos

The drama of the cultural universe that considers itself historically victorious is that it does not want to learn from the cultural universes it has become accustomed to defeat and to teach. In turn, the non-Western cultural universes, be they Eastern (Chinese or Indian), Islamic, African, and indi...

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Published in:Journal of world-systems research 2022-08, Vol.28 (2), p.438-441
Main Author: De Sousa Santos, Boaventura
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acculturation
Capitalism
Colonialism
Eurocentrism
Gramsci, Antonio (1891-1937)
Indigenous peoples
Islam
Ontology
Oppression
Patriarchy
Reflexivity
Self esteem
Sociology
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Summary:The drama of the cultural universe that considers itself historically victorious is that it does not want to learn from the cultural universes it has become accustomed to defeat and to teach. In turn, the non-Western cultural universes, be they Eastern (Chinese or Indian), Islamic, African, and indigenous or first nation people of the Americas and Oceania, come from trajectories of historical defeats by the Western universe; defeats which, however, varied greatly in time and extent. They have gone through different processes of destruction, disfiguration, acculturation (or better, deculturation), but they have survived and today they take on a new confidence, self-esteem, and forward-looking stance from which stems the perception that the defeat is over.
ISSN:1076-156X
1076-156X
DOI:10.5195/jwsr.2022.1141