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The social sciences have been heavily influenced by modernization theory, focusing on issues of economic growth, political development and social change, in order to develop a predictive model of linear progress for developing countries following a Western prototype. Under this hegemonic paradigm of development the world tends to get divided into simplistic binary oppositions between the West and the rest, us and them and self and other .

Proposing to shift the discussion on what constitutes the Other as opposed to the Self from philosophy and cultural studies to the social...