Orientalism and Imperialism: From Nineteenth-Century Missionary Imaginings to the Contemporary Middle East 9781350033795

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Автор: Andrew Wilcox
Название: Orientalism and Imperialism: From Nineteenth-Century Missionary Imaginings to the Contemporary Middle East
ISBN: 9781350033795
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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История Ближнего Востока

Национально-освободительное движение и независимость, постколониализм

Социальная и политическая философия

Религия и политика

ISBN-10: 1350033790
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 248
Вес: 0.33 кг.
Дата издания: 12.07.2018
Серия: Suspensions: contemporary middle eastern and islamicate thought
Язык: English
Размер: 234 x 156 x 16
Читательская аудитория: Tertiary education (us: college)
Ключевые слова: Middle Eastern history,National liberation & independence, post-colonialism,Social & political philosophy,Religion & politics, HISTORY / Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire,PHILOSOPHY / Political,POLITICAL SCIENCE / Imperialism,POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern
Подзаголовок: From nineteenth-century missionary imaginings to the contemporary middle east
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Using the work of Edward Said as a point of departure, this book dissects the concept of Orientalism through the lens of 19th century missionary impressions of Kurdistan. Wilcox argues that dominant interpretations of Saids work have a tendency to present Orientalism as an essentialist practice and instead offers an alternative manifestation in which the Oriental is perceived as the mutable product of cultural forces.

The relationship between missionaries and imperialism has long been a contentious issue with many scholars highlighting their apparent ambiguity. This study reveals how Protestant missionaries can be identified as anti-imperialist in their rhetoric of ecumenical independence; yet through their preconceptions of Oriental inferiority, they contributed to a more subtle undermining of local forms of knowledge and identity. Wilcox argues that this apparent ambiguity is in part a consequence of the ways in which the term imperialism is frequently used to allude to diverse and even contradictory meanings; therefore it is not so much the missionaries who are ambiguous, as the ways in which they are judged by todays multivalent standards. The analysis also makes clear the complex discursive processes which can undermine the actions of altruistic individuals.

By drawing threads from this 19th century example into the current geopolitical foreground of Middle East-West relations, this book not only sheds light upon a little-known historical case study but also illuminates larger questions of the present and future encouraging a more vigorous examination of contemporary Orientalist prejudices.

Orientalism and Imperialism: From Nineteenth-Century Missionary Imaginings to the Contemporary Middle East, Andrew Wilcox