Orientalism

Neither Orientalism nor Occidentalism: Edward W. Said and Latin Americanism

Eduardo Mendieta emendieta@notes.cc.sunysb.edu Stony Brook University (USA) Center for Cultural Studies at UC Santa Cruz Abstract: The article begins with a discussion of the methodological breakthrough made by Said in his magisterial Orientalism, which it is claimed also informed his subsequent works. He is defended against critics who impute on him with, and impugn him for, […]

Muslim women’s veil (hijab): between colonialist ideology and Islamic discourse: a decolonial view

Abstract: The debate on Muslim women’s veil (hijab) has always been central in contemporary feminist discussion, and therefore it embodies the core of the conflict between two antinomic views: the one in neo-orientalist and hegemonic neo-western discourse, and a certain majoritarian traditionalist Islamic discourse. For some, it embodies patriarchal oppression while for others it is […]

Notes towards a Study of the Orientalist Notions of Civilization Operating in Latin American Political Thought: The Case of Nineteenth Century Chile

Douglas Smith, Universidad de Chile y Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso