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(Re)producing orientalism

open access: yesEludamos
Through the case study of the mobile title Game of Sultans, this article examines the proliferation of iterative and copycat games through the practice of reskins in the mobile game industry.
Yizhou Xu
doaj   +1 more source

Ecological and Technological Insights to Enhance Rice Production: A Machine Learning Approach for Sustainable Agriculture in Granma, Cuba

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amid the quest for sustainable agriculture, this study explores key ecological and technological factors influencing crop production under climate change. We conduct a comprehensive assessment of temperature, biomass, farmer education, renewable energy devices, greenhouse gas emissions and their effects on rice yields in Granma, Cuba, from ...
Afzal Ahmed Dar   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

'Europe' and 'The Islamic World' : Perceptions and Stereotypes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Pope Benedict XVI’s Regensburg lecture has been exposed by some learned voices of 'the Muslim world' as alluding, by the means of one particular quotation, to age-old stereotypes about Islam being an essentially violent creed in which moderation through ...
Dusche, Michael
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Crime, Gender and Policing: The Role of Women Officers in Addressing Gender‐Based Violence in India

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines whether an increased presence of women in Indian police forces results in enhanced justice for victims of gender‐based crimes and improves the overall effectiveness and responsiveness of the police. It employs focus group discussions and qualitative system dynamics modelling to examine the dynamics of women in law ...
Kandaswamy Paramasivan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Robert Browning as an Orientalist in Ferishtah's Fancies

open access: yesAnkara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Dergisi, 2017
Orientalism, according to Edward Said, is a Western fantasy which is not based on observation but on dreams, fantasies and assumptions of the West; and this makes it a fabricated construct. As Said argues in the introduction of Orientalism (1978), "[t]he
Pelin KUT BELENLİ
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[Review of] Gina Marchetti. Romance mId the Yellow Peril: Race, Sex, and Discursive Strategies in Hollywood Fiction [PDF]

open access: yes, 1994
Marchetti poignantly mirrors Orientalism as conceived in the eyes of typical Hollywood filmmakers of their Eurocentric discourse, flavored with their own notions of romance, race and sexuality, and the Yellow Peril, the way they want to entertain the ...
Kim, Eugene C.
core   +1 more source

Conceptual colour: race, economic knowledge, and the anthropology of financialization De la couleur comme concept : race, connaissances économiques et anthropologie de la financiarisation

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Economic anthropologists now carry out fieldwork in settings for which the ethnographic method was never designed, amongst powerful financial actors who are notoriously difficult to access, and in contexts which transcend geographical boundaries. This has engendered a re‐orientation of anthropology, to consider not only the economic lives of people but
Kimberly Chong
wiley   +1 more source

Sub Altern Orientalism and Counter-Hegemonic Struggles. The Construction of Arab, Chinese and Russian Communities in Chavista Venezuela

open access: yesEstudios Políticos, 2014
In its attempt to pursue an elusive Modernist vision of development, the Chávez government (1999-2013) in Venezuela concocted a fresh and very binary roster of ''us'' versus ''them.'' In its counter-hegemonic project, in Gramscian terms, Venezuela has ...
James Rochlin
doaj  

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