Eurocentrism

IRT is a highly Eurocentric narrative. Sujata Patel explains Eurocentric or Eurocentrism as an idea that all knowledge emerged in Europe in the context of European modernity. Thus, it entails a linear conception of time which suggested that this knowledge has produced through the values and institutional systems that were universalized in Europe in the past 500 years, in its backyard. Patel writes that this narrative incorporates two master narratives: the superiority of Western civilization (through progress and reason) and the belief in the continuous growth of capitalism (through modernisation, development and creation of new markets). These master narratives are all ethnocentric in nature. It needs to be understood that European knowledge saw itself to be superior to the other which was to be colonised, turned into an object of control and through which it became modern. Under this, Europe saw itself as the origin point of modernity, which became the point of reference for other cultures and civilisations. Europe and the West were painted in terms of the master civilization that had modernity, reason, culture and science while the East was painted as inferior, which was enclosed in space, nature, religion and spirituality. The binary created was one of modernity and tradition. The western European countries were all torchbearers of the modern while the countries of the East were traditional and backward.

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