Постколониальные исследования
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A simple distinction between centre/margin, colonizer/colonized, metropolis/
empire, civilized/primitive represents very efficiently the violent hierarchy on which imperialism is based and which it actively perpetuates.

The conscious or unconscious process by which Europe and European cultural assumptions are constructed as, or assumed to be, the normal, the natural or the universal. The first, and possibly most potent sign of Eurocentrism, as José Rabasa explains (1993), was the specific projection employed to construct the Mercator Atlas itself, a projection that favoured the European temperate zones in its distribution of size. This map of the world is not merely an objective outline of discovered continents, but also an ‘ideological or mythological reification of space’ which opens up the territories of the world to domination and appropriation.

Affect is one of the three divisions described in modern psychology – the cognitive, the conative and the affective – and refers to the domain of non-cognitive experience that includes feelings, emotions and other autonomic responses to stimuli.