Search Results for civilizational thinking

... Smith College 2021 anti-Muslim racisms racial marking civilizational thinking veiling Orientalia Islamophobia and anti-Muslim racism as discourse is not new and cannot be reduced to a phobia. 1 It is instead about a racial project of accumulation based on the idea of European...

... that is key to how dominant groups in several parts of the world occupy Muslim lands and destroy Muslim communities. Anti-Muslim racism forges a global whiteness as it moves, installing a civilizational divide between Muslims, conjured as barbaric, misogynist, premodern Others who require force and Europeans...

... country where ambitious state secularism and authoritarian Islamist governance have both been brokered through gendered civilizational tropes, Turkey provides a rich context in which to explore the volatility of racial categories and anti-racist discourses and the ensuing complexities for transnational...

... this cultural technology? The same answer applies to all three questions: the White colonizers who are claimed to be the only humans, the modern Man, the sole species on Earth to have undergone self-evolution and successfully achieve both civilizational modernity and biological humanness. Wynter’s analysis...

... of Black women, as they run counter to the established order and are nourished by a Black African cosmovision or point of view, constitutive of Afro-Brazilian civilizational values. The latter elements form the basis for their thought, supplying thematic content and an epistemological perspective...

... a Western discourse that, in order to justify European colonialism, constructs Asian societies as exotic, different, and inferior (Said 1979). Andrea Smith argues that Orientalism applies not only to Asians, but to all inferiorized groups that pose a civilizational alternative to Euro-American empire...

... of studies of nationalist and post-nationalist constructions ofThainess can be illuminating by focusing on how debates over polygamy and prostitution are indicative of civilizational discourse, performative rituals, and cultural mandates dictating women's dress. In the Thai context, the debates are revealing...

.... As a figure that defies gendered norms of domestic passivity, she inspires both interest and fear in members of the general public and security experts alike: “Burqaed and belted-up to the nines, she is the ultimate Other, transgressing not only civilizational prohibitions against murder and suicide, but also...

... reveals how the discourse of"protection" flexes to accommodate particular socio-historical conditions. This work highlights the ways in which women emerge as the primary battleground in dueling colonialist/nationalist discourses of civilizational and cultural superiority (Narayan 1997; Mani 1998...