Euro‐Orientalism and the Making of the Concept of Eastern Europe in France, 1810–1880

Adamovsky, Ezequiel

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“…These statements, contradicting the contemporary rhetoric of Italian unification, anticipated some topics of the "meridionalist" thinkers Antonio Gramsci, Gaetano Salvemini and Pasquale Villari (Ferretti 2009). To decry colonial domination within Europe was not unusual for anarchist geographers, who supported with geographical arguments the Slav and Balkan peoples' struggle for national independence against the empires of Moscow, Vienna and Constantinople (Ferretti 2014a) and provided an alternative to "Euro-Orientalism" of the day (Adamovsky 2005) by giving to revolutionary movements in Eastern Europe an important role in inspiring Western ones. Reclus also took a clear position on Ireland, which he saw as a colonised land, as well as India and Algeria; he concluded one of his anti-colonial diatribes by stating that "this hatred on the part of the slave who revolts against us is right, and proves at least that there is still hope of emancipation.…”

Section: Italian Geography and Imperialismmentioning

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Arcangelo Ghisleri and the “Right to Barbarity”: Geography and Anti‐colonialism in Italy in the Age of Empire (1875–1914)

Ferretti

2015

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International audienceThis paper addresses the work of early critics of colonialism and Eurocentrism within Italian geography in the Age of Empire. At that time, a minority but rather influent group of Italian scholars, influenced by the international debates promoted by the anarchist geographers Reclus, Kropotkin and Mečnikov, fumed publicly at Italy’s colonial ambitions in Africa. Their positions assumed, at least in the case of Arcangelo Ghisleri, the character of a radical critique of both political and cultural European hegemony. These approaches were linked to a similar critique of ‘internal colonialism’, both Austrian in the Italian-speaking regions of Trento and Trieste, and Piedmontese in Southern Italy. Based on primary sources, and drawing on the international literature on imperial geography and colonial and postcolonial sciences, this paper conjures up the Italian example to discuss how some European geographers of the Age of Empire were also early critics of racism, colonialism and chauvinism, and how these historical experiences can serve current debates on critical, radical and anarchist geographies

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Section: Italian Geography and Imperialismmentioning

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Arcangelo Ghisleri and the “Right to Barbarity”: Geography and Anti‐colonialism in Italy in the Age of Empire (1875–1914)

Ferretti

2015

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“…Across the world, the themes of 'Westernisation' and 'relative backwardness' thus evolved together, shaping a novel opposition between 'traditionalists'whether Russian Slavophiles or orthodox Confuciansand 'modernisers' (Osterhammel 2014, 93, 188, 625-28). The reverberations of this movement were widely-felt across Europe and the United States, where the idea of a backward yet gradually ascending 'East' became an increasingly central theme of political discourse as the nineteenth century progressed (Adamovsky 2005;Bavaj 2011). As GoGwilt's (1995) seminal genealogy of Western discourse makes clear, it was only in the period after c.1870 -i.e.…”

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Geoculture and unevenness: Occidentalism in the history of uneven and combined development

Leigh

2020

Cambridge Review of International Affairs

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Recent works on 'uneven and combined development' (UCD) have focused on its contributions to the study of political economy and geopolitics, but they have yet to systematically address the cultural dimension of social changethe socially shared ideas by which people understand and act upon the world. The present article addresses this lacuna by applying the premises of UCD to the nineteenth-century emergence of Occidentalism: the idea of 'the West' as the dominant site of culture, civilisation and modernity. Against the problems of methodological internalism and Eurocentrism, I argue that the categories of unevenness and combined development provide critical entry points for an examination of the international construction of 'Western' identities and discourses during the late-nineteenth century imperial era. Specifically, I advance a theory of geocultural feedback which locates the constituting terms of those identities and discourses in a specific conjuncture of global unevenness: how the experience of 'relative backwardness' in late-industrialising societies translated into self-consciously 'Westernising' projects of catch-up development which destabilised prevailing conceptions of white European supremacy. In both the British and American empires, this historical dynamic produced a distinct pattern of cultural transformation: a reactive discourse of civilisational closure centred on the defence of 'the West.' I am especially grateful to my supervisor, George Lawson, for his advice and support throughout the PhD from which this article arises. Thanks also to Justin Rosenberg, the editors of CRIA, and three anonymous reviewers for convening this special issue and providing invaluable comments and suggestions. I would also like to thank Grace Benton and Lewis Bassett-Yerrell for their insightful comments on an earlier draft.

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“…Romanians during the First World War, underlining the 'Euro-Orientalist' frame of reference most suitable for comprehending these constructions (Hamlin 2010; for the concept of 'Euro-Orientalism', see Adamovsky 2005).…”

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Transylvanian Saxon Symbolic Geographies

Cercel¹

2012

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Euro‐Orientalism and the Making of the Concept of Eastern Europe in France, 1810–1880

Cited by 36 publications

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Arcangelo Ghisleri and the “Right to Barbarity”: Geography and Anti‐colonialism in Italy in the Age of Empire (1875–1914)

Arcangelo Ghisleri and the “Right to Barbarity”: Geography and Anti‐colonialism in Italy in the Age of Empire (1875–1914)

Geoculture and unevenness: Occidentalism in the history of uneven and combined development

Transylvanian Saxon Symbolic Geographies

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