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date: 05 November 2024

eurocentrism 

Source:
A Dictionary of Human Geography
Author(s):

Alisdair Rogers,

Noel Castree,

Rob Kitchin

The focus on European culture, history, and politics at the expense of the rest of the world, usually in the belief that Europe is innately superior and that its development has not relied upon exchanges and influences from outside. Further, the values of European societies and intellectual thought are regarded as universal, for example, with regards to ... ...

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