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Blogs about: Orientalism

Whoa.

resistance wrote 10 hours ago: Short summary:  Christian publisher Zondervan released a book full of Asian stereotypes.  You know, … more →

Tags: Privilege, Still Thinking, WTF

Cultures and Values as Old as Time3 comments

audreyandthane wrote 1 day ago: (Audrey) Perhaps the strongest, most powerful, and bizarrely the most long-lasting Orientalist idea … more →

Tags: India, caste, Hinduism, timeless, Indian Culture, Indian values, Colonialism, British, religious tensions

On Situating Islam2 comments

missivesfrommarx wrote 3 days ago: One of the many books I’m in the middle of right now is Aaron W. Hughes’ Situating Islam … more →

Tags: Academic Study of Religion, Edward Said, essentialism, Islam, Protectionism

Exhibitions: Lords of the Samurai at the Asian Art Museum2 comments

Al wrote 3 days ago: The Asian Art Museum’s Lords of the Samurai exhibit was their blockbuster attraction this past … more →

Tags: Asian Art Museum, Parody, Samurai, Exhibitions

Unemployed? You fail at being Canadian.

Restructure! wrote 4 days ago: Are you currently unemployed? According to the new Canadian citizenship guidebook for prospective im … more →

Tags: White People Studies, Arab, Asia, asian, barbarism, Bias, Canada, canadian, Chinese

Orientalism and Object Oriented Philosophy1 comment

Tim Matts wrote 4 days ago: Just a quick post to acknowledge an inspiring (if somewhat scandalous) comment on a thread over at K … more →

Tags: Philosophy, brassier, Deleuze, Deleuzism, Ecocriticism, Ecophilosophy, ecosophy, Harman, meillassoux

Hawaiian? Pilipina? Same thing

boomboompao wrote 6 days ago: My boss was telling me about a recent So You Think You Can Dance? episode in which Pilipina American … more →

Tags: Pao Pao's Soap Box, Adam Shankman, militarization of Hawaii, Miss Saigon, Pauline Mata, Peter Sabasino, So You Think You Can Dance

bantam menace

christinedepresent wrote 1 week ago: So, the other day PW came out with its top ten books of the year…. Here is my little joke post … more →

Tags: Part II, dfw, GMNs, John Updike, Maureen Dowd, NYTimes, Publisher's Weekly, why i am undertaking this project, Women Writers

Orwell on Gandhi

Bento wrote 1 week ago: Perhaps it is the calcification of my sympathy in old age (21 summers), but whenever I see the bumpe … more →

Tags: INTERNATIONAL, Religion, International: Indian subcontinent, Religion - Hinduism, History

Gyula Tornai (1861 - 1928, Hungarian)

CantervilleGhost wrote 1 week ago: In The Harem Tattoo Harem Lady Susanna And The Elders The Magic Fountain Portrait Of Jaroslava, The … more →

Tags: Tornai Gyula, Gyula Tornai, Susanna and the Elders

Modern Love

Russ wrote 1 week ago: I don’t know about you, but I think Andy Capp herein provides conclusive evidence that technol … more →

Tags: Andy Capp, Answers of the day, chicks, Whatever, connubial bliss, david brooks, pda, Pete Shelley, the english beat

Understanding the concept of "Orientalism"5 comments

profrah wrote 1 week ago: A few have asked about how Said’s concept of “orientalism” relates to the issue of … more →

Tags: Deadly Vipers, Multi ethnicity, next evangelicalism, Racial Reconciliation

Law, Orientalism, and Enlightenment Ideology in Southeast Asia

keithgoodwin wrote 2 weeks ago: Whether or not anybody actually reads this blog is beyond me. Nevertheless, I feel bad if I don … more →

Tags: History, Politics, Asia, Southeast Asia, Colonialism, Travelogues, Travel Writers, Legal rhetoric, Edward Said

How Eurocentric Is Your Day?11 comments

nurzangi wrote 2 weeks ago: M. Shahid Alam At the outset of the classes I teach, I always address the question of bias in the so … more →

Tags: Islam, middle east, Political ideologies

Istanbul3 comments

missivesfrommarx wrote 2 weeks ago: According the the novel I’m presently reading, Istanbul is a bridge of sorts between two world … more →

Tags: Academic Study of Religion, Discourse and Rhetoric

Lights in the Courtyard at the Dragon's Den2 comments

Kate wrote 3 weeks ago: It is hot and humid in New Orleans, even though it is the end of October. I was sweating like June w … more →

Tags: Bars, bikes, New Orleans, Treme, French Quarter, Weather, Frenchman Street, Bruce Springsteen, Dragons' Den

Muerte de un imam en Detroit: nunca sabremos qué pasó.

abenyusuf wrote 3 weeks ago: Bismilah al rahmán y rahim Un imam que, acribillado por balas, es presentado ante la opinión pública … more →

Tags: Boicot a las dictaduras, Boicot a USA, Dar al-Harb, Human Rights, humanitarism, Islam, Islamofascismo, Islamofobia, loci a persona

on mohammedans and conversion2 comments

kato wrote 3 weeks ago: Sometimes, when you photocopy a journal article or book chapter, particularly when you’re scan … more →

Tags: Religion, asides and comments, Islam, racism, Mohammedanism, Levantines

Rigorous mathematics and Deductive Reasoning

ibn ayyub wrote 3 weeks ago: by Abdassamad Clarke Mathematics uses five main elements: definition, axiom, hypothesis, proof and t … more →

Tags: Aqidah/Belief, Fiqh, Islam, Religion, constitutionalism, egalitarianism, Euclid, Islamic democracy, islamic principles


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