Beyond Occidentalism: Toward Nonimperial Geohistorical Categories

Coronil, Fernando

doi:10.1525/can.1996.11.1.02a00030

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Beyond Occidentalism: Toward Nonimperial Geohistorical Categories

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The social revolution ... cannot draw its poetry from the past, but only from the future. It cannot begin with itself before it has stripped itself of all its superstitions concerning the past. Earlier revolutions relied on memories out of world history in order to drug themselves against their own content. In order to find their own content, the revolutions of the nineteenth century have to let the dead bury the dead. Before, the expression exceeded the content; now the content exceeds the expression. [1967:223]

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Inalienable Commodities: The Production and Circulation of Silver and Patrimony in a Mexican Mining Cooperative
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SOCIOLOGY
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“My work is strongly influenced by current debates of Latin American urbanisms, in which post- and decolonial scholars push for a decentring of spatial imaginations (e.g. Coronil, 1996; Porto Goncxalves, 2006).”
Background
New Approaches to the Study of Esotericism
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“According to Coronil (1996) and Mignolo (2011), “Occidentalism” or Westernization is not the reverse of Orientalism but its condition of possibility.”
Background
Global Modernization, `Coloniality' and a Critical Sociology for Contemporary Latin America
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“At the core of this project stands the critique of Occidentalism as the necessary and even pristine counterpart of Orientalism (Coronil, 1996; Said, 1978).”
Background
Asia as Method in Science and Technology Studies
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“Similarly, Fernando Coronil (1996) urged us to move beyond Occidentalism in our settings of theory and method.”
Method
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Rethinking Authoritarian Power: The Logistics Space and Authoritarian Practices in and between Secondary Port Cities of the Global South
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“What connects these transregional actors is a presupposed “occidental” superiority (Coronil 1996, 57).”
Background
Occidentalism Meets the Female Suicide Bomber: A Critical Reflection on Recent Terrorism Debates; A Review Essay
Brunner, C. (2007) · Signs · doi:10.1086/512490 · Cited by 54 · see citing works
Kuwe Duwakalumi: The Arawak Sacred Routes of Migration, Trade, and Resistance
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Anti-slavery as development: A global politics of rescue
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“…as development: A global politics of rescue groupings of ‘The ten countries which…’ The exercises do not indicate a precise and stable location of the boundaries between ‘developed’ and ‘developing’ – for as Coronil argues, the fluidity of these categories makes them resilient (Coronil, 1996).”
BackgroundInfluential
RACIALIZATION, GENDER, AND THE NEGOTIATION OF POWER IN STOCKHOLM’S AFRICAN DANCE COURSES
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Cuba's Alternative Geographies
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GENTRIFICATION, GLOBALIZATION, AND GEORACIALITY
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The Eurocentric Marx and Engels and other related myths
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Rereading the Archive and Opening up the Nation-State
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Ships Stranded in the Forest
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“WE ARE HERE TO BRING THE WEST, NOT ONLY TO OURSELVES”: ZIONIST OCCIDENTALISM AND THE DISCOURSE OF HYGIENE IN MANDATE PALESTINE
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Border Thinking in Action: Should Critical Management Studies Get Anything Done?
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Future moves: Forward-oriented studies of culture, society, and technology
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“…(Beck, 1992; Beck et al., 1994), ‘multiple modernities’ (Eisenstadt, 2003; Featherstone, 1995; Nederveen Pieterse, 2009), and alternative, ‘nonimperial’ geohistorical macro concepts (Bonfil Batalla, 1987; Coronil, 1996; Dussel, 1995; García Canclini, 1989; Lander, 1997; Patel, 2010; Quijano, 2000).”
Introduction
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Postcolonial theories as global critical theories
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Occidentalism and accountability: constructing culture and cultural difference in majority Greek talk about the minority in Western Thrace
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“Other accounts (e.g. Karakasidou, 1995; Özkirimli & Sofos, 2008) argue for the gradual ‘nationalization’ of an erstwhile religious community.”
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The notion of ‘the West’ in the Serbian national imaginary
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Toward decolonial globalisation studies
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“On the one hand, decolonial globalisation studies points to neoliberal globalisation’s ‘totalising impulse’, and, on the other, the emergence of ‘social spaces that lie outside its control’ (Coronil 1996, 66).”
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Former Yugoslavia On the World Wide Web
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“The term ethno-orientalism was introduced by Carrier (1992), and later developed by Coronil (1996), and denotes a process of self-essentialist rendering – ‘the Others’ produce an essentialist notion of themselves, using historical stereotypes.”
Background
Anthropology in Area Studies
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Contesting Parallel Worlds: Time to Abandon the Distinction Between the ‘International’ and ‘Domestic’ Contexts of Third Sector Scholarship?
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“In his quest for what he calls ‘nonimperial geohistorical categories’, Fernando Coronil (1996) argues how difficult it is to move beyond such categories.”
Background
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Introduction
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Medical Mimesis: Healing Signs of a Cosmopolitan "Quack"
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“Coronil (1996) writes that such narratives reproduce the metaphysical binary of East and West.”
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Postkolonialismus und Dekolonialität
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The Social Construction of Postcolonial Studies
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The ambivalent role of gender in redefining the German nation
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“Gabriele Dietze, following Fernando Coronil (1996), defines this need for a (Muslim) ‘other’ in order to secure or reconstruct the ‘self’ as a new ‘Occidentalism’ (Dietze, 2004).”
Background
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“A number of decolonial scholars have acknowledged that there is a ‘coloniality of knowledge’ that results in the privileging of Eurocentric ways of knowing and understanding the world (Coronil, 1996; Dussel, 1998; Lander, 2000; Mignolo, 2000).”
Background
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Authors: Coronil, F.
Affiliations: University of Michigan (US)
Corresponding author: Coronil, Fernando
Venue: Cultural Anthropology
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 1996-02
Volume: 11
Issue: 1
Pages: 51-87
ISSN: 0886-7356 (ISSN-L)
1548-1360
DOI: 10.1525/can.1996.11.1.02a00030
OpenAlex: W2077772547
Semantic Scholar: f751300dded898dabec610b5b56b71cd03940ac5
Cited by: 881
References: 65
Citations by year: 2026: 36 · 2025: 13 · 2024: 48 · 2023: 67 · 2022: 39 · 2021: 24 · 2020: 47 · 2019: 38 · 2018: 54 · 2017: 20 · 2016: 29 · 2015: 23 · 2014: 41 · 2013: 13 · 2012: 41
FWCI: 66.69
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: diamond
doi.org
Licence: doi.wiley.com/10.1002/tdm_license_1.1 (tdm, 7152 d)
Locations: Cultural Anthropology (publishedVersion)
Topics: Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Cultural Studies and Colonialism
Social Sciences › Anthropology › Decolonial Thought and Epistemologies
Social Sciences › Geography, Planning and Development › Historical Geography and Geographical Thought
Keywords: Occidentalism, geohistory, imperialism, Western exceptionalism, historiography, postcolonial historiography

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