nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/15cdd504a30e1117 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 260209s2026||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/15cdd504a30e1117 doi eng 342 23 Conrad, Sebastian Author aut On Eurocentrism Conrad, Sebastian Verfassungsblog 2026-02-09 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Over roughly the past decade and a half, many disciplines in the humanities and social sciences have undergone what is often described as a “global turn.” This shift starts from a historical insight into the disciplines themselves. As they are institutionalized today across universities worldwide, the modern disciplines largely took shape in nineteenth-century Europe and continue to bear the imprint of that moment of origin. Two features are particularly consequential. First, their close entanglement with the nation-state has fostered a predominantly national framing of research questions, archives, and narratives. Second, they have been shaped by Eurocentric assumptions that were deeply embedded in an age marked by imperial expansion and European global hegemony. CC BY-SA 4.0 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/on-eurocentrism/ raw object