Masood Ashraf Raja
Biographic Data
| ID | 1403512 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Masood Ashraf Raja |
| GIVEN NAMES | Masood Ashraf |
| FAMILY NAME | Raja |
| SIGNATURE | RAJA M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Social Justice
This chapter traces the emergence of environmental justice in Taiwanese literature using the Tao writer Shaman Rapongan and the Han author Liao Hongji as examples. It first revisits the continent-centric rhetoric of the Nationalist-ruled Taiwan, analyzing how this reconceptualization of Taiwan from an oceanic perspective, which gained momentum in the 1990s, was quickly co-opted into the construction of Taiwanese cultural nationalism. It then expl…
Isis
Relying on a thorough understanding of the role of ideology, discourse, and framing, this volume discusses ISIS as an Islamist ideological organization, and examines its philosophical scaffolding within the material conditions produced by neoliberal capital. As Raja asserts, it is this nexus of specifically retrieved Islamic history and the current global economic system that creates the kind of social identity ideally suited for ISIS. The combin…
Critical Pedagogy and Global Literature
In one volume, this edited collection provides both a theoretical and praxis-driven engagement with teaching world literature, focusing on various aspects of critical pedagogy. Included are nine praxi
Critical Pedagogy and Global Literature
Democratic Criticism and the Importance of the Islamic Hermeneutics of Reading in the Twenty-First Century
Relying on major debates in reception and reader response theory, this essay attempts to explore the possibilities of reading metropolitan texts about Islam and Islamic culture with an understanding of the Islamic modes of meaning-making and interpretation. Geared toward scholars and students of literature and culture, the essay hopes to foster a more nuanced and complex approach to reading texts that appropriate Islamic raw materials in order to…
The Postnational Fantasy
In twelve critical and interdisciplinary essays, this text examines the relationship between the fantastic in novels, movies and video games and real-world debates about nationalism, globalization and cosmopolitanism. Topics covered include science fiction and postcolonialism, issues of ethnicity, nation and transnational discourse. Altogether, these essays chart a new discursive space, where postcolonial theory and science fiction and fantasy st…
Neoliberal Dispositif and the Rise of Fundamentalism
While developmental theorists rely heavily on analysis of macro and micro economic theories and developmental sequencing, not much attention is paid to the undeniable linkage between the post-seventies liberalization of global economies and the rise of different kinds of religious fundamentalism. This article suggests that there is a strong connection between neoliberal economics and the rise of Islamic fundamentalism. The rise of Islamic fundame…
Ousmane Sembène’s . The Anatomy of a Strike and the Ideologeme of Solidarity
On the Day of Z. A. Bhutto's Death
Jihad in Islam
Using classical and current definitions of jihad and theories of globalization and neoliberalism, this essay discusses jihad and current jihadist movements within their reactive and responsive relationships to the material conditions of the Islamic world in general and of Pakistan in particular. Written in response to the essentialist claims of American neoconservative scholars, it suggests that jihadist militancy is not inherently Islamic, but r…
The Israel‐Palestine Conflict
Of Bunnies and Firecrackers
Reading the Postcolony in the Center
(2005). Reading the Postcolony in the Center: V.S. Naipaul's A Bend in the River. South Asian Review: Vol. 26, 'V.S Naipaul: His ideas, work and art'. Guest Edited by P. A. Chauhan, pp. 224-239
Death as a Form of Becoming
Reading the Postcolony in the Center
(2005). Reading the Postcolony in the Center: V.S. Naipaul's A Bend in the River. South Asian Review: Vol. 26, 'V.S Naipaul: His ideas, work and art'. Guest Edited by P. A. Chauhan, pp. 224-239
Death as a Form of Becoming
The Israel‐Palestine Conflict
Of Bunnies and Firecrackers
Jihad in Islam
Using classical and current definitions of jihad and theories of globalization and neoliberalism, this essay discusses jihad and current jihadist movements within their reactive and responsive relationships to the material conditions of the Islamic world in general and of Pakistan in particular. Written in response to the essentialist claims of American neoconservative scholars, it suggests that jihadist militancy is not inherently Islamic, but r…
On the Day of Z. A. Bhutto's Death
The Postnational Fantasy
In twelve critical and interdisciplinary essays, this text examines the relationship between the fantastic in novels, movies and video games and real-world debates about nationalism, globalization and cosmopolitanism. Topics covered include science fiction and postcolonialism, issues of ethnicity, nation and transnational discourse. Altogether, these essays chart a new discursive space, where postcolonial theory and science fiction and fantasy st…
Neoliberal Dispositif and the Rise of Fundamentalism
While developmental theorists rely heavily on analysis of macro and micro economic theories and developmental sequencing, not much attention is paid to the undeniable linkage between the post-seventies liberalization of global economies and the rise of different kinds of religious fundamentalism. This article suggests that there is a strong connection between neoliberal economics and the rise of Islamic fundamentalism. The rise of Islamic fundame…
Ousmane Sembène’s . The Anatomy of a Strike and the Ideologeme of Solidarity
Critical Pedagogy and Global Literature
In one volume, this edited collection provides both a theoretical and praxis-driven engagement with teaching world literature, focusing on various aspects of critical pedagogy. Included are nine praxi
Critical Pedagogy and Global Literature
Democratic Criticism and the Importance of the Islamic Hermeneutics of Reading in the Twenty-First Century
Relying on major debates in reception and reader response theory, this essay attempts to explore the possibilities of reading metropolitan texts about Islam and Islamic culture with an understanding of the Islamic modes of meaning-making and interpretation. Geared toward scholars and students of literature and culture, the essay hopes to foster a more nuanced and complex approach to reading texts that appropriate Islamic raw materials in order to…
Isis
Relying on a thorough understanding of the role of ideology, discourse, and framing, this volume discusses ISIS as an Islamist ideological organization, and examines its philosophical scaffolding within the material conditions produced by neoliberal capital. As Raja asserts, it is this nexus of specifically retrieved Islamic history and the current global economic system that creates the kind of social identity ideally suited for ISIS. The combin…
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Social Justice
This chapter traces the emergence of environmental justice in Taiwanese literature using the Tao writer Shaman Rapongan and the Han author Liao Hongji as examples. It first revisits the continent-centric rhetoric of the Nationalist-ruled Taiwan, analyzing how this reconceptualization of Taiwan from an oceanic perspective, which gained momentum in the 1990s, was quickly co-opted into the construction of Taiwanese cultural nationalism. It then expl…
Political science (8 works) · History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · History (4 works) · Islamic Studies and History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works)