Erosentrisme (disebut juga Barat-sentrisme atau Western-centrism)[1] adalah pandangan dunia yang condong terhadap peradaban Barat. Cakupan istilah ini bervariasi mulai dari seluruh dunia Barat, Eropa saja, atau bahkan Eropa Barat era Perang Dingin. Bila dikaitkan dengan sejarah, istilah ini menandakan sikap apologetik terhadap kolonialisme Eropa dan bentuk-bentuk imperialisme lain.[2]

Istilah Erosentrisme sendiri sudah ada sejak akhir 1970-an dan mulai populer pada 1990-an, khususnya bila berkaitan dengan dekolonisasi dan bantuan pembangunan serta bantuan kemanusiaan dari negara-negara industri (Dunia Pertama) ke negara-negara berkembang (Dunia Ketiga).

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Istilah ideologi Erosentrisme diciptakan oleh Samir Amin tahun 1970-an

Kata sifat Erosentris atau Eropasentris sudah digunakan dalam berbagai konteks sejak 1920-an.[3] Kata ini (bahasa Prancis: européocentrique) mulai populer dalam kajian dekolonisasi dan internasionalisme pada pertengahan abad ke-20.[4] Istilah ideologi Erosentris dalam politik identitas muncul pada pertengahan 1980-an.[5]

Kata benda abstrak Erosentrisme (bahasa Prancis: eurocentrisme/europocentrisme) yang menandakan ideologi diciptakan pada tahun 1970-an oleh ekonom Marxis asal Mesir, Samir Amin, direktur African Institute for Economic Development and Planning di Komisi Ekonomi Afrika Perserikatan Bangsa-Bangsa.[6] Amin menggunakan istilah ini dalam konteks model pembangunan kapitalis global, negara inti-pinggiran, atau ketergantungan (dependen). English usage of Eurocentrism is recorded by 1979.[7]

Istilah Western-centrism baru muncul pada akhir 1990-an dan hanya ada dalam bahasa Inggris.[8]

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  1. ^ Hobson, John (2012). The Eurocentric conception of world politics : western international theory, 1760-2010. New York: Cambridge University Press. hlm. 185. ISBN 1107020204. 
  2. ^ Eurocentrism and its discontents, American Historical Association
  3. ^ The German adjective europa-zentrisch ("Europe-centric") is attested in the 1920s, unrelated to the Marxist context of Amin's usage. Karl Haushofer, Geopolitik des pazifischen Ozeans (pp. 11–23, 110-113, passim). The context is Haushofer's comparison of the "Pacific space" in terms of global politics vs. "Europe-centric" politics.
  4. ^ A Rey (ed.) Dictionnaire Historique de la langue française (2010): À partir du radical de européen ont été composés (mil. XXe s.) européocentrique adj. (de centrique) « qui fait référence à l'Europe » et européocentrisme n.m. (variante europocentrisme n.m. 1974) « fait de considérer (un problème général, mondial) d'un point de vue européen » ."
  5. ^ Hussein Abdilahi Bulhan, Frantz Fanon and the Psychology of Oppression (1985), 63ff: "Fanon and Eurocentric Psychology", where "Eurocentric psychology" refers to "a psychology derived from a white, middle-class male minority, which is generalized to humanity everywhere".
  6. ^ "Anciens directeurs" (uneca.org) Diarsipkan 2018-08-06 di Wayback Machine. ("Samir AMIN (Egypte) 1970-1980").
  7. ^ Alexandre A. Bennigsen, S. Enders Wimbush , Muslim National Communism in the Soviet Union: A Revolutionary Strategy for the Colonial World (1979), p. 19.
  8. ^ "pluralistic cultural coexistence as opposed to Western centrism and Asian centrism" (unhyphenated) in: Mabel Lee, Meng Hua, Cultural dialogue & misreading (1997), p. 53. "our incomplete perception of Chinese behavior, which tends to be 'Western-centric.'" (using scare-quotes) in: Houman A. Sadri, Revolutionary States, Leaders, and Foreign Relations: A Comparative Study of China, Cuba, and Iran (1997), p. 35. "Euro- or western-centrism" in the context of the "traditional discourse on minority languages" in: Jonathan Owens (ed.), Arabic as a Minority Language (2000), p. 1. Use of Latinate occido-centrism remains rare (e.g. Alexander Lukin, Political Culture of the Russian 'Democrats' (2000), p. 47).

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