>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/02/03 8:37 AM >>> 1) "The West" does not exist culturally, it is an ideological fiction or geographic reference, an ideological concept which hides the reality of imperialist accumulation. In order to understand this, you should study the history of geographical mapping, the production of geographical maps. Then you will see "the West" is an ideological fiction. Jurriaan <<<<<>>>>>
much as the term 'euro-centric' is problematic (although i agree with the late geographer Jim Blaut that the concept is the 'colonizer's model of the world'), certain applications of the term/concept 'west' flattens the complexity of European/western culture and history's peripheral regions, social classes, and marginalized and stigmatized peoples... michael hoover
