Peter Chua
Biographic Data
| ID | 227447 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Chua |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Chua |
| SIGNATURE | CHUA P |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Jose State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9248-1961 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 78 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Critical Approaches to Qualitative Research
This chapter reflects on critical strategies in qualitative research. It examines the meanings and debates associated with the term critical, in particular, contrasting liberal and dialectical notions and practices in relation to social analysis and qualitative research. The chapter also explores how critical social research may be synonymous with critical ethnography in relation to issues of power, positionality, representation, and the producti…
Orientalism and Occidentalism
Orientalism and occidentalism are sustained intellectual projects organized by historians, policy experts, Christian theologians, and humanist and social science scholars which study and appraise the “Orient” and its “Eastern” arts, sciences, histories, faiths, cultures, peoples, and nations in contrast to the “West.” Cultural theorist Edward Said and newer scholarship from cultural, feminist, and anti‐imperialist scholars criticize its objection…
Cultural Racism
Cultural racism refers to the institutional domination and sense of racial‐ethnic superiority of one social group over others, justified by and based on allusively constructed markers, instead of outdated biologically ascribed distinctions. These culturally constructed markers have included language use, religious practice, immigrant status, social welfare dependency, and the profiling of criminal and terrorist behavior. Moreover, cultural racism…
O rientalism
Orientalism is a sustained intellectual project organized by historians, policy experts, Christian theologians, and humanist and social science scholars that studies and appraises the “Orient” and its “eastern” arts, sciences, histories, faiths, cultures, peoples, and nations. Cultural theorist Edward Said and newer scholarship from cultural, feminist, and anti‐imperialist scholars criticize its objectionable racialization, exoticism, and cultura…
Manifest Destiny
Manifest destiny refers to a racial ideology and imperialist project that the Christian God ordained US settlers and land speculators to occupy the entire North American continent and claim territorial, political, and economic sovereignty over its people and resources. Articulations of this ideology and project were prevalent yet widely contested in the nineteenth century. Uncritical propagation of the “manifest destiny” concept remains pervasive…
Orientalism
Orientalism refers to a set of important yet misleading cultural, racialized, and politicized discourses on the “Orient” and its “eastern” arts, languages, sciences, histories, faiths, cultures, and peoples. Since the 1600s, Christian theological experts, humanist scholars, and natural and social scientists generated a nationally specific orientalist body of knowledge, which was promulgated by first world leaders, experts, and policy advisors to …
Asian American Sexual Politics
Orientalism as Cultural Practices and the Production of Sociological Knowledge
Since the 1990s, sociologists and others have increasingly used the term orientalism to refer commonly to ethnocentrism, Eurocentrism, prejudicial stereotyping, and cultural misrepresentations of non‐‘western’ societies, particularly those influenced by Islamic knowledge and practices. I chart how theorist Edward Said has helped initiate the sociology of orientalism by emphasizing the relationship of orientalism as a set of cultural practice and …
Manifest Destiny
Manifest destiny refers to a belief and a sustained racial and imperialist project that the Christian God ordained United States settlers and land speculators to occupy the entire North American continent and claim territorial, political, and economic sovereignty over its people and resources. Articulations of this belief and project were prevalent yet widely contested in the nineteenth century; they persist into the twenty‐first century
Orientalism
Orientalism is the study of the “Orient” and its “eastern” arts, languages, sciences, histories, faiths, cultures, and peoples by Christian theological experts, humanist scholars, and natural and social scientists since the 1500s. Orientalist writers consider the “Orient” as consisting of societies geographically east of Christian Europe to be explored, acquired, and colonized for their raw materials, abundant labor, and pieces of seemingly opule…
Comparative Social Research, Vol. 20
Identities in Talk
Women, culture, development
We argue that existing approaches to development, including the women in development [WID] and gender and development [GAD] perspectives, fall short in their treatment of culture, and that a new paradigm, which we term 'Women, Culture and Development' [WCD], represents a way forward. Linking the fields of feminist studies, cultural studies and critical development studies, a WCD framework highlights culture as lived experiences and structures of …
Negotiating New Asian-American Masculinities
Historically, U.S. institutional practices have rendered Asian-American men as simultaneously hypermasculine and emasculated. Today, the model minority myth and asexual media representations have emphasized the feminized Asian-American male. Yet, no empirical study has examined how Asian-American men construct their own masculinities. Toward this end, this study sought to examine: (a) how college-age Asian-American and white men express their mas…
Negotiating New Asian-American Masculinities
Historically, U.S. institutional practices have rendered Asian-American men as simultaneously hypermasculine and emasculated. Today, the model minority myth and asexual media representations have emphasized the feminized Asian-American male. Yet, no empirical study has examined how Asian-American men construct their own masculinities. Toward this end, this study sought to examine: (a) how college-age Asian-American and white men express their mas…
Women, culture, development
We argue that existing approaches to development, including the women in development [WID] and gender and development [GAD] perspectives, fall short in their treatment of culture, and that a new paradigm, which we term 'Women, Culture and Development' [WCD], represents a way forward. Linking the fields of feminist studies, cultural studies and critical development studies, a WCD framework highlights culture as lived experiences and structures of …
Orientalism as Cultural Practices and the Production of Sociological Knowledge
Since the 1990s, sociologists and others have increasingly used the term orientalism to refer commonly to ethnocentrism, Eurocentrism, prejudicial stereotyping, and cultural misrepresentations of non‐‘western’ societies, particularly those influenced by Islamic knowledge and practices. I chart how theorist Edward Said has helped initiate the sociology of orientalism by emphasizing the relationship of orientalism as a set of cultural practice and …
Negotiating New Asian-American Masculinities
Historically, U.S. institutional practices have rendered Asian-American men as simultaneously hypermasculine and emasculated. Today, the model minority myth and asexual media representations have emphasized the feminized Asian-American male. Yet, no empirical study has examined how Asian-American men construct their own masculinities. Toward this end, this study sought to examine: (a) how college-age Asian-American and white men express their mas…
Women, culture, development
We argue that existing approaches to development, including the women in development [WID] and gender and development [GAD] perspectives, fall short in their treatment of culture, and that a new paradigm, which we term 'Women, Culture and Development' [WCD], represents a way forward. Linking the fields of feminist studies, cultural studies and critical development studies, a WCD framework highlights culture as lived experiences and structures of …
Identities in Talk
Comparative Social Research, Vol. 20
Manifest Destiny
Manifest destiny refers to a belief and a sustained racial and imperialist project that the Christian God ordained United States settlers and land speculators to occupy the entire North American continent and claim territorial, political, and economic sovereignty over its people and resources. Articulations of this belief and project were prevalent yet widely contested in the nineteenth century; they persist into the twenty‐first century
Orientalism
Orientalism is the study of the “Orient” and its “eastern” arts, languages, sciences, histories, faiths, cultures, and peoples by Christian theological experts, humanist scholars, and natural and social scientists since the 1500s. Orientalist writers consider the “Orient” as consisting of societies geographically east of Christian Europe to be explored, acquired, and colonized for their raw materials, abundant labor, and pieces of seemingly opule…
Orientalism as Cultural Practices and the Production of Sociological Knowledge
Since the 1990s, sociologists and others have increasingly used the term orientalism to refer commonly to ethnocentrism, Eurocentrism, prejudicial stereotyping, and cultural misrepresentations of non‐‘western’ societies, particularly those influenced by Islamic knowledge and practices. I chart how theorist Edward Said has helped initiate the sociology of orientalism by emphasizing the relationship of orientalism as a set of cultural practice and …
O rientalism
Orientalism is a sustained intellectual project organized by historians, policy experts, Christian theologians, and humanist and social science scholars that studies and appraises the “Orient” and its “eastern” arts, sciences, histories, faiths, cultures, peoples, and nations. Cultural theorist Edward Said and newer scholarship from cultural, feminist, and anti‐imperialist scholars criticize its objectionable racialization, exoticism, and cultura…
Manifest Destiny
Manifest destiny refers to a racial ideology and imperialist project that the Christian God ordained US settlers and land speculators to occupy the entire North American continent and claim territorial, political, and economic sovereignty over its people and resources. Articulations of this ideology and project were prevalent yet widely contested in the nineteenth century. Uncritical propagation of the “manifest destiny” concept remains pervasive…
Orientalism
Orientalism refers to a set of important yet misleading cultural, racialized, and politicized discourses on the “Orient” and its “eastern” arts, languages, sciences, histories, faiths, cultures, and peoples. Since the 1600s, Christian theological experts, humanist scholars, and natural and social scientists generated a nationally specific orientalist body of knowledge, which was promulgated by first world leaders, experts, and policy advisors to …
Asian American Sexual Politics
Orientalism and Occidentalism
Orientalism and occidentalism are sustained intellectual projects organized by historians, policy experts, Christian theologians, and humanist and social science scholars which study and appraise the “Orient” and its “Eastern” arts, sciences, histories, faiths, cultures, peoples, and nations in contrast to the “West.” Cultural theorist Edward Said and newer scholarship from cultural, feminist, and anti‐imperialist scholars criticize its objection…
Cultural Racism
Cultural racism refers to the institutional domination and sense of racial‐ethnic superiority of one social group over others, justified by and based on allusively constructed markers, instead of outdated biologically ascribed distinctions. These culturally constructed markers have included language use, religious practice, immigrant status, social welfare dependency, and the profiling of criminal and terrorist behavior. Moreover, cultural racism…
Critical Approaches to Qualitative Research
This chapter reflects on critical strategies in qualitative research. It examines the meanings and debates associated with the term critical, in particular, contrasting liberal and dialectical notions and practices in relation to social analysis and qualitative research. The chapter also explores how critical social research may be synonymous with critical ethnography in relation to issues of power, positionality, representation, and the producti…
Sociology (14 works) · Political science (13 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Anthropology (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Orientalism (5 works) · History (4 works) · Humanism (4 works)