Orientalism Zionism And Academic Practice

Author : Eyal Clyne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351263986

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Orientalism, Zionism and Academic Practice by Eyal Clyne Pdf

Orientalism, Zionism and Academic Practice explores the field of Israeli Middle East and Islamic Studies (MEIS) sociologically and politically, as a window onto the relationship between Orientalism, Zionism and academia. The book draws special attention to neoliberal discourse and praxis in everyday higher education, the interests of scholars, and the political form that commercialisation takes in specific disciplinary and geopolitical conditions by deconstructing structural and historical presuppositions and effective ideologies that overdetermine this junction of academia, orientalism and Zionism. The multi-layered study draws on various scholarly traditions and offers new evidence for, and insights in, historical and cultural-discursive discussions. It highlights paradigmatic gaps in reading Saidian orientalism, re-evaluates the origins and evolution of the local field, contributes to the study of everyday academic culture in the social sciences and humanities (SSH), and unveils the presupposed and the unsaid of the general and the specific field, exploring the intersection of an orientalist expertise, in a settler-colonial society, and everyday academic capitalism. The expertise of this sociological and discursive study make it an invaluable resource for academics and students interested in Israel and Middle East studies, Higher Education and the Sociology of Academia.

Author : Maya Wind
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781804291757

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Towers of Ivory and Steel by Maya Wind Pdf

How Israeli universities collaborate in Israeli state violence against Palestinians Israeli universities have long enjoyed a reputation as liberal bastions of freedom and democracy. Drawing on extensive research and making Hebrew sources accessible to the international community, Maya Wind shatters this myth and documents how Israeli universities are directly complicit in the violation of Palestinian rights. As this book shows, Israeli universities serve as pillars of Israel's system of oppression against Palestinians. Academic disciplines, degree programs, campus infrastructure, and research laboratories all service Israeli occupation and apartheid, while universities violate the rights of Palestinians to education, stifle critical scholarship, and violently repress student dissent. Towers of Ivory and Steel is a powerful expose of Israeli academia’s ongoing and active complicity in Israel’s settler-colonial project.

Author : Edward W. Said
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804153867

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Orientalism by Edward W. Said Pdf

More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East has become a modern classic. In this wide-ranging, intellectually vigorous study, Said traces the origins of "orientalism" to the centuries-long period during which Europe dominated the Middle and Near East and, from its position of power, defined "the orient" simply as "other than" the occident. This entrenched view continues to dominate western ideas and, because it does not allow the East to represent itself, prevents true understanding. Essential, and still eye-opening, Orientalism remains one of the most important books written about our divided world.

Author : Anna Bernard,David Attwell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137341112

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Debating Orientalism by Anna Bernard,David Attwell Pdf

Edward Said continues to fascinate and stir controversy, nowhere more than with his classic work Orientalism. Debating Orientalism brings a rare mix of perspectives to an ongoing polemic. Contributors from a range of disciplines take stock of the book's impact and appraise its significance in contemporary cultural politics and philosophy.

Author : Adel Iskandar,Hakem Rustom
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520258907

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Edward Said by Adel Iskandar,Hakem Rustom Pdf

This indispensable volume, a comprehensive and wide-ranging resource on Edward Said's life and work, spans his broad legacy both within and beyond the academy. The book brings together contributions from 31 luminaries to engage Said's provocative ideas.

Author : Martina Censi,Maria Elena Paniconi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429651281

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The Migrant in Arab Literature by Martina Censi,Maria Elena Paniconi Pdf

This edited book offers a collection of fresh and critical essays that explore the representation of the migrant subject in modern and contemporary Arabic literature and discuss its role in shaping new forms of transcultural and transnational identities. The selection of essays in this volume offers a set of new insights on a cluster of tropes: self-discovery, alienation, nostalgia, transmission and translation of knowledge, sense of exile, reconfiguration of the relationship with the past and the identity, and the building of transnational identity. A coherent yet multi-faceted narrative of micro-stories and of transcultural and transnational Arab identities will emerge from the essays: the volume aims at reversing the traditional perspective according to which a migrant subject is a non-political actor. In contrast to many books about migration and literature, this one explores how the migrant subject becomes a specific literary trope, a catalyst of modern alienation, displacement, and uncertain identity, suggesting new forms of subjectification. Multiple representations of the migrant subject inform and perform the possibility of new post- national and transcultural individual and group identities and actively contribute to rewriting and decolonizing history.

Author : Nadeen Dakkak
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000838619

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Narratives of Dislocation in the Arab World by Nadeen Dakkak Pdf

This monograph explores and investigates narratives of physical, psychological, and emotional dislocation that take place within the Arab world, approaching them as manifestations of the Arabic word ghurba, or estrangement, as a feeling and state of being. Distancing itself from the centrality of the "West" in postcolonial and Arabic literary studies, the book explores experiences of migration, displacement and cosmopolitanism that do not directly ensue from the encounter with Europe or the European other. Covering texts from the Levant, Egypt, the Arabian Peninsula and beyond from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, the book grounds narratives of dislocation in the political, social and cultural structures that affect the everyday lived experiences of individuals and communities. An analysis of Arabic, Turkish and English texts – encompassing fiction, memoirs and translations – highlights less visible narratives of ghurba, specifically amongst ethnic minorities and religious communities. Ultimately, the chapters contribute to a picture of the Arab world as a place of ghurba where mobile and immobile subjects, foreigners and local inhabitants alike, encounter alienation. Bringing together a diverse range of academic perspectives, the book will be of interest to students and scholars in postcolonial and comparative literary studies, history, and Arabic and Middle East studies.

Author : Maria Elena Paniconi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351357234

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Bildungsroman and the Arab Novel by Maria Elena Paniconi Pdf

Through a close-reading of a corpus of novels featuring young protagonists in their path toward adulthood, the book shows how Bildungsroman impacted the formation of the Egyptian narrative. On a larger scale, the book helps the reader to understand the key role played by the coming of age novel in the definition and perception of modern Arab subjectivity. Exploring the role of Bildungsroman in shaping the canonical Egyptian novel, the book discusses the case of Zaynab by Muhammad Husayn Haykal (1913) as an example of early Arab Bildungsnarrative. It focuses on Latifa Zayyat’s masterpiece The Open Door and the novels of the 90es Generation, offering a gender-based analysis of the Egyptian Bildungsroman. It provides insightful readings about the function of the novel in women’s re-negotiation of social boundaries. The study shows how the stories of youth present universal themes such as the thwarted quest for love, the struggle for personal fulfilment, the desire to achieve a cultural modernity often felt as "other than self". The book is a journey in the Twentieth Century Egyptian Novel, seen through the lens of the transnational form of Bildungsroman. It is a key resource to students and academics interested in Arabic literature, comparative literature and cultural studies.

Author : Ivan Davidson Kalmar,Derek Jonathan Penslar
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 1584654112

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Orientalism and the Jews by Ivan Davidson Kalmar,Derek Jonathan Penslar Pdf

A fascinating analysis of how Jews fit into scholarly debates about Orientalism.

Author : Ethan B. Katz,Lisa Moses Leff,Maud S. Mandel
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253024626

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Colonialism and the Jews by Ethan B. Katz,Lisa Moses Leff,Maud S. Mandel Pdf

The lively essays collected here explore colonial history, culture, and thought as it intersects with Jewish studies. Connecting the Jewish experience with colonialism to mobility and exchange, diaspora, internationalism, racial discrimination, and Zionism, the volume presents the work of Jewish historians who recognize the challenge that colonialism brings to their work and sheds light on the diverse topics that reflect the myriad ways that Jews engaged with empire in modern times. Taken together, these essays reveal the interpretive power of the "Imperial Turn" and present a rethinking of the history of Jews in colonial societies in light of postcolonial critiques and destabilized categories of analysis. A provocative discussion forum about Zionism as colonialism is also included.

Author : Laurence J. Silberstein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781136663864

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The Postzionism Debates by Laurence J. Silberstein Pdf

The struggle for postzionism is a conflict over national memory and the control of cultural and physical space. Laurence J. Silberstein analyzes the phenomenon of postzionism and provides an intervention into this debate.

Author : Rachel Beckles Willson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107067974

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Orientalism and Musical Mission by Rachel Beckles Willson Pdf

Orientalism and Musical Mission presents a new way of understanding music's connections with imperialism, drawing on new archive sources and interviews and using the lens of 'mission'. Rachel Beckles Willson demonstrates how institutions such as churches, schools, radio stations and governments, influenced by missions from Europe and North America since the mid-nineteenth century, have consistently claimed that music provides a way of understanding and reforming Arab civilians in Palestine. Beckles Willson discusses the phenomenon not only in religious and developmental aid circles where it has had strong currency, but also in broader political contexts. Plotting a historical trajectory from the late Ottoman and British Mandate eras to the present time, the book sheds new light on relations between Europe, the USA and the Palestinians, and creates space for a neglected Palestinian music history.

Author : György Konrád,Iván Szelényi
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015002779075

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The Intellectuals on the Road to Class Power by György Konrád,Iván Szelényi Pdf

Author : Eli Lederhendler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Antisemitism
ISBN : 9780197687215

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Becoming Post-Communist by Eli Lederhendler Pdf

"Across the landscape that until 1939 housed most of the world's Jewish population, the closing decade of the 20th century witnessed dramatic upheavals: the overturning of the East European communist governments and the fall of the USSR, accompanied by a major Jewish emigration movement. The legacy of the Jewish presence in those countries, as viewed from today's vantage point, and the ways in which it became enmeshed in the quest by people of the region-Jews and non-Jews alike-to secure their prospects for the future, highlighted fundamental issues about the nature and quality of the politics of memory, national identity, and the continuity and relative stability of regimes in the region. If those questions were important even before the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, understanding their implications now seems even more crucial. In a field fraught with conflicting narratives, the challenges of social and political reconstruction are primary concerns for peoples and governments. The experts contributing to this volume apply interdisciplinary approaches to analyze and interpret a multiplicity of post-communist social realities and aid our understanding of recent events"--

Author : Ulrike Brunotte,Anna-Dorothea Ludewig,Axel Stähler
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110339109

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Orientalism, Gender, and the Jews by Ulrike Brunotte,Anna-Dorothea Ludewig,Axel Stähler Pdf

Originating in the collaboration of the international Research Network “Gender in Antisemitism, Orientalism and Occidentalism” (RENGOO), this collection of essays proposes to intervene in current debates about historical constructions of Jewish identity in relation to colonialism and Orientalism. The network‌’s collaborative research addresses imaginative and aesthetic rather than sociological questions with particular focus on the function of gender and sexuality in literary, scholarly and artistic transformations of Orientalist images. RENGOO’s first publication explores the ways in which stereotypes of the external and internal Other intertwine. With its interrogation of the roles assumed in this interplay by gender, processes of sexualization, and aesthetic formations, the volume suggests new directions to the interdisciplinary study of gender, antisemitism, and Orientalism.