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Edward Said as Humanist Educator (with a Note on John Dewey)
Drawing on Edward Said and John Dewey, this contribution explores the relationship between humanism and education and a range of practices such as...
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The “Happy Island” of Polish Music Education: Self-Orientalization of Educational Philosophies in Post-Soviet Europe
Polish and international scholars have frequently made use of the postcolonial lens as a presumably valid tool to examine conditions in post-soviet...
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Theoretical Reference
Edward Said’s Orientalism is an important reference for this study, although it discusses how European authors viewed muslin culture. It is about le...
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Connecting Ethnicity and Space: the New Russian-Mediterranean Pop Culture in Israel’s Periphery
This ethnographic study explores the co-influences between urban spaces and ethnic hierarchies in the pop-cultural creations of Russian-speaking...
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Introduction
The introduction presents the 1798 French invasion of Egypt and the beginning of the survey of the land and its people, a survey that would become...
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Nafssiya, or Edward Said's Affective Phenomenology of Racism
This book adapts the Arabic term nafsiyya to trace the phenomenological contours of Edward Said’s analysis of the affective dimensions of colonial...
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The Invention of Science: An Orientalist Perspective
In this chapter, the author consider some of the reasons for the resistance to and costs of analysing science as a social fact. At the same time, he...
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Reading Elegy Against the Grain
This introductory chapter provides the background for reading Roman love elegy as a form of colonial discourse, as a genre that promotes the imperial...
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The Oeuvre of Peter van der Veer
This chapter critically evaluates the corpus of writings by Peter van der Veer, a Dutch anthropologist described by Dipesh Chakrabarty as ‘one of the...
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Biblical Figures in Israel's Colonial Political Theology
This book reveals and counteracts the misuse of biblical texts and figures in political theology, in an attempt to decolonialize the reading of the...
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Narratives
Stories, also called narratives, are accounts of everyday events, grand stories of the beginnings of life, and sense-making explanations about the...
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Neoliberalism and Islamophobia: The Politics of Naming Muslims
The focus in this chapter is on Islamophobia and neoliberalism within a global context, and the ways in which these dynamics operate as a form of...
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The return of long-lost Sumero-Akkadian heritage and modern disorders: rediscovering Gilgamesh, Victorian tension, and aftermath
Much has been said about the paradigms that generated and complexed the Victorian and post-Victorian tension, but surprisingly enough no sufficient...
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Semellantes as feridas? Feminist De-colonial Readings of Galician Fiction
Celso Emilio Ferreiro’s poem “Irmaus” summarizes how the Galician literary (and to some extent political) establishment has understood its...
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Postcolonialism and Social Theory in Arabic Intellectual Traditions and Historical Entanglements
Since Edward Said’s publication of Orientalismin 1978, so-called Western social theory and its claim to universal analytical validity has been...
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Politics, Public Relations and Islam in the UK Public Sphere
The intense media exposure of Islam and Muslims in the UK since the launch of the ‘war on terror’ in 2001 has prompted a multitude of academic...
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The West/Rest Pirouette: Division in the Dance Canon
The dance landscape may be broadly divided into Western and non-Western genres. This chapter explores concepts underpinning the preference for...
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Marx, Marxism and the Question of Eurocentrism
This book mediates between postcolonial positions that criticize Marxist approaches (and Marx’s writings) for their Eurocentrism and defenders of...
