O rientalism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23711923 |
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| Authors | Peter Chua (0000-0001-9248-1961, San Jose State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Pages | 1-3 |
| Publication date | 2015-12-30 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781118663202.wberen120 |
| OpenAlex | W4231356953 |
| ISBN | 9781118663202 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
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 cultural abstraction. These critics object to Orientalists' claims of objective knowledge such as topics related to Islam and Middle Eastern affairs. They charge that Orientalism assists in imperialist restructuring and domination of the “Orient” through its denials, distortions, and suppression of people's experiences and its claims of western and Christian superiority in knowledge, commerce, gender relations, and ways of life.
Art · Exoticism · Humanism · Islam · Islamophobia · Literature · Orientalism · Political science · Race (biology) · Racialization · Scholarship · Sociology · Theology · Anthropology · Cultural Studies · Gender Studies · Law · Legal and cultural studies analysis · Philosophy · Religious studies
| Highly cited | No |
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