Representing the self/other: Towards In-Between

Abstract

Eurocentrism as currently established power dominates political, economical, cultural, social, and academic spheres, pushing the Majority World to the margin. Eurocentrism as discourse has been produced in deep articulation in the colonial history with practices of representation of the West as Self and ‘the Rest’ as the racialized and gendered Other. This thesis brings attention to the systems of representation in which the West claims cultural and racial superiority while confining the Majority World within fixed boundaries of stereotyping. It also explores how the Eurocentric discourse affects the subjectivities of people in the Majority World.