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Intercultural masquerade: new orientalism, new Occidentalism, old exoticism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This book centres on the re-emerging ideas of Orientalism and Occidentalism in the areas of higher education, student mobility, literature, media, and music.
Wahyudi, Ribut
core   +1 more source

Leaf heat tolerance in a native Californian shrub responds in expected and unexpected ways to differences in range, season, and sunlight exposure

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Earth's ecosystems are experiencing wide‐ranging impacts from global climate change, including increased average and extreme temperatures. These temperature shifts can drastically affect plant physiology, threatening the future of even common plant species. Here, we focus on photosynthetic function in a native Southern California shrub species.
Anna K. M. Bowen   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Strategic Occidentalism: America in Vietnamese Anticolonial Thought [PDF]

open access: yes
Whereas "orientalism" describes how the West sees the East, "occidentalism" describes how the East sees the West. This paper presents two examples of occidentalism from Vietnam in the 1920s: a pamphlet that praises American civilization through a ...
Pham, K.D.
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The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
wiley   +1 more source

Rethinking Jacques Derrida’s Deconstruction and its Relevance to the Study of Islam

open access: yesUlumuna, 2019
This article examines  Jacques Derrida’s concept of deconstruction and its implementation in the context of contemporary Islamic studies. Philosophically, the status of texts should not be regarded merely as writing because the meaning goes beyond the ...
Abdul Fattah
doaj   +1 more source

The Portrayal of Orientalism and Occidentalism in the novel "A Passage to India" by, E. M. Forster Post-Colonialism Approach

open access: yes, 2022
This research was conducted to analyze the influence of orientalism and occidentalism on the lives of western and eastern people in the novel "a passage to india" by e. M.
Aprianti, Delis
core   +1 more source

Oksidentalisme dalam Pandangan Pemikiran Hassan Hanafi

open access: yesSinthop, 2022
Hanafi stated that occidentalism is the opposite of orientalism. If the object of study in Orientalism is the East and more specifically in Islam, then in Occidentalism the object of study is the West.
Fitri Mawaddah
doaj   +1 more source

‘The Good Couscous That Pleases Us!’: The Meanings of Enduring Imperialist Imagery in Postcolonial French Food Advertising, 1970–2000

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines a wave of Orientalism‐inspired food commercials that appeared on television in France between 1975 and 2000. Older commercials for couscous were more banal, emphasizing a given product's superiority or affordability. Around 1975, however, there was a concerted shift in the advertising; new spots contained exoticized ...
Kelly Ricciardi Colvin
wiley   +1 more source

Reflections of the Anti-Occidentalism Idea in Serbian Cultural Texts of the 20th Century

open access: yesSlavia Meridionalis, 2022
Reflections of the Anti-Occidentalism Idea in Serbian Cultural Texts of the 20th Century The article presents the most representative texts of culture and opinions of Serbian intellectuals of the 20th century, which formed the trend of anti ...
Dorota Gil
doaj   +1 more source

Hospitaller Revenues, Bourbon Regalism: The Financial Administration of the Grand Priory of Castile and León under an American Parvenu

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract After the vicissitudes of the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–14), the consolidation of the Bourbon Monarchy in early eighteenth‐century Spain allowed Philip V's ministry to implement the so‐called Nueva Planta in his various kingdoms and lordships of the Crown of Aragon, but also in Castile.
Roberto Quirós Rosado
wiley   +1 more source

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