The Challenge of Orientalism

Mani, Lata; Frankenberg, Ruth

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“…He suggests that these methods of representation are used as tools, by colonisers, to dominate the colonised, at an individual and community level [82]. This view is also shared by other scholars [87,88].…”

Section: Post-colonialismmentioning

confidence: 96%

Perspective Chapter: Understanding Young People’s Experiences – An Integrative Literature Review

Kamel Ahmed

2024

Education and Human Development

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A developed conceptual model to understanding experiences of young people with ethnic heritage is explored in this chapter. Through a synthesis of some of the traditional approaches to identity and personality, the author argues for the move towards a more comprehensive, extensive, and evolving approach to understanding lived experiences: the conduct of everyday life. Coupled to that is an understanding of the continuity of experiences using the concept of Personhood in Practice to articulate young people’s learning and development in the context of lived experiences. Bringing together such approaches, the chapter presents an integrative review showing the development of a conceptual model. It gives an example of how such model was used in my PhD research to draw findings to understand the experiences of an under-researched and overlooked community: the British Yemenis.

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Section: Post-colonialismmentioning

confidence: 96%

Perspective Chapter: Understanding Young People’s Experiences – An Integrative Literature Review

Kamel Ahmed

2024

Education and Human Development

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“…17 Thus anomalies are marginalised and Orientalist discourse remains recognisable for its 'sheer knitted together strength' 18 as 'a monolithic, undifferentiated and uncontested Western imposition'. 19 Such a position is problematic for two clear reasons. First, for the possibility that such an Orientalist critique may transpose the frameworks of essentialisation 20 to understandings of the US.…”

Section: Ambivalent Orientalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

American Occidentalism and the agential Muslim woman

Allison¹

2012

Rev. Int. Stud.

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Through the War on Terror the United States developed a seemingly enlightened understanding of Muslim women. In contrast to Orientalised representations of Muslim women's passivity and victimisation within brutal Islamic cultures these emerging representations posit Muslim women in terms of their modernity and liberation. The emergence of this new Muslim woman illuminates an attempt to secure an Occidental self through the negotiation of conflicting impulses towards Islam. Islam is recognised as the repository from which the US enemy other emerges yet the WoT also reflects a particular desire for a cosmopolitan inclusivity. The presence of the Muslim woman acts to assuage these tensions. Her oppression confirms the barbarity of the enemy yet the combination of her intrinsic agency and religiosity posits her as an acceptable Islamic other whose presence confirms the pluralistic tolerance of the US and the universal validity of its project.Katherine Allison is University Teacher in Politics at the University of Glasgow.After America was attacked, it was as if our entire country looked into the mirror and saw our better selves. 1

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“…Their mission is to create a new and actual reality about the Orient. Mani and Frankenberg (1985) argue that '[..] there is a real Orient in the sense of a geographical place peopled with actual human beings. If it did not exist except as an imaginative realm there would have been no raison d'ttre for an Orientalism' (p. 186).…”

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UAE: Cultural Representation and Re-Creating Emirates Environment in International Films and its Implications for Tourism

2022

JALHSS

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This article aims to highlight the role and importance of the cinema in raising tourism, introducing the UAE's tourism potential, promoting and attracting tourism, and increasing local development. Because 'there is [.] a lack of data-driven academic research that measures the effects of film industry on local tourism' (Tkalec et al. 2017, p.705). Further, 'the impacts of film tourism still appear to be underappreciated. Though the effects of film tourism can have significant long-term benefits' (Hudson, 2011, p. 165). Likewise, Connell and Meyer argue that 'understanding of the experiences of screen tourists in film and TV locations remains an emerging area of inquiry ' (2009, p. 194). This article 'evaluates the effects of film industry on tourism outcomes' (Tkalec et al. 2017, p.705) in the UAE.The article interpreted the films' portrayal to reveal how UAE's culture and the environment were represented in the international movies filmed in the UAE. Cities of UAEs are not merely replicated in international films but constructed anew; reimagined, or repurposed according to filmmakers' and cinematographers' points of view and the role of those cities within that vision. Huge attention, however, is paid to representing the UAE's cities in international films. How do the filmmakers contribute to portraying the UAE and represent the knowledge on-screen in the filming process? Reviewing international filming in the UAE will explore possible answers to these informed questions.

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The Challenge of Orientalism

Cited by 58 publications

References 12 publications

Perspective Chapter: Understanding Young People’s Experiences – An Integrative Literature Review

Perspective Chapter: Understanding Young People’s Experiences – An Integrative Literature Review

American Occidentalism and the agential Muslim woman

UAE: Cultural Representation and Re-Creating Emirates Environment in International Films and its Implications for Tourism

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