Average Stray Aliens': An Average Australian Conversation on Eurocentrism

Allatson, P; Lu, Y; Mikula, MH; Pratt, M; Le Nevez, AT

Average Stray Aliens': An Average Australian Conversation on Eurocentrism

Allatson, P

Lu, Y Mikula, MH Pratt, M Le Nevez, AT

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Citation:: Culture, Theory and Critique, 2002, 43 (1), pp. 17 - 31
Issue Date:: 2002-01

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dc.contributor.author	Allatson, P https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2248-1605	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Lu, Y	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Mikula, MH	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Pratt, M	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Le Nevez, AT	en_US
dc.date.issued	2002-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Culture, Theory and Critique, 2002, 43 (1), pp. 17 - 31	en_US
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dc.description.abstract	Prompted by a recent error in an Australian newspaper, by which voice-recognition technology inadvertently transformed `average Australians into `average stray aliens, this paper appears as a conversation about Eurocentrism between five participants, all of whom work in European studies as teachers and researchers in Australia, the place of `stray aliens. Our dialogue proceeded cumulatively in August 2001, with e-mail responses circulating between contributors. Our aim was to dislocate the debate about `Europe and `Eurocentrism away from the Eurocentre to one of Europes blind spots, Australia. Emerging in the debate is a strong sense of the ways in which power and privilege inevitably accrue centrifugally: Eurocentrism affects and re-writes itself on us in ways perhaps unimagined in the Eurocentre. As a bid toward resistant practice against the centre, we have refrained self-consciously from explaining every local reference in our self-reflective, dialogic, and open-ended discussion about the ways `Europe and `Eurocentrism touch us as teachers, researchers and `average stray aliens.	en_US
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dc.relation.ispartof	Culture, Theory and Critique	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	https://doi.org/10.1080/14735780110118436	en_us
dc.rights	This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Culture, Theory and Critique, 2002, 43 (1), pp. 17 - 31. Copyright Routledge, available online at: https://doi.org/10.1080/14735780110118436.	en_US
dc.title	Average Stray Aliens': An Average Australian Conversation on Eurocentrism	en_US
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Abstract:

Prompted by a recent error in an Australian newspaper, by which voice-recognition technology inadvertently transformed `average Australians into `average stray aliens, this paper appears as a conversation about Eurocentrism between five participants, all of whom work in European studies as teachers and researchers in Australia, the place of `stray aliens. Our dialogue proceeded cumulatively in August 2001, with e-mail responses circulating between contributors. Our aim was to dislocate the debate about `Europe and `Eurocentrism away from the Eurocentre to one of Europes blind spots, Australia. Emerging in the debate is a strong sense of the ways in which power and privilege inevitably accrue centrifugally: Eurocentrism affects and re-writes itself on us in ways perhaps unimagined in the Eurocentre. As a bid toward resistant practice against the centre, we have refrained self-consciously from explaining every local reference in our self-reflective, dialogic, and open-ended discussion about the ways `Europe and `Eurocentrism touch us as teachers, researchers and `average stray aliens.

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