In 2004, the philosopher Avishai Margalit and Dutch author Ian Buruma published
Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of its Enemies.
Throughout the conference, attendees examined several themes relating to Bennabi's work through various papers presented by leading scholars, including Parallel Structures of Civilizational and Scientific Processes; Religion and Faith in the Conditions of the Renaissance; Malek Bennabi's Ideas on
Occidentalism; and Western Civilization in Malek Bennabi's Thought.
It gave us great pleasure to convene leading scholars to impart their knowledge of Malek Bennabi's insights on Islamic thought, while building on them to develop a contemporary framework for a renewed renaissance or nahda." Throughout the conference, attendees examined several themes relating to Bennabi's work through various papers presented by leading scholars, including Parallel Structures of Civilisational and Scientific Processes; Religion and Faith in the Conditions of the Renaissance; Malek Bennabi's Ideas on
Occidentalism; and Western Civilisation in Malek Bennabi's Thought.
Chapter 1 focuses on a conceptual framework, which emphasizes how policy, market, technology, and culture mutually influence the dialectic relations between nationalism and cosmopolitanism, Orientalism and
Occidentalism, state and media, technology and ideology, and advertisers and Chinese consumers.
The accusation that Mo Yan distorted the Chinese image follows from a forced transplantation of western postcolonial critical theory, simplistically interpreting his creative, critical narratives as an expression of his desire to cater to a certain
Occidentalism. Objectively, it has ignored social and cultural conflicts in the local context; subjectively, it emphasizes on an imagined oppression of discourse imposed on China by the westerners; taken together, it only exposes its practitioners' conscious or unconscious conformation to the dominant ideology.
On the one hand, Wong vigorously denounces British colonial authorities in Malaya, revealing his unyielding longing for de-colonization, as evidenced in the poems quoted above; on the other hand, Wong sometimes commits acts of "
Occidentalism" in relation to the colonizer.
Mughal
Occidentalism: Artistic Encounters Between Europe and Asia at the Courts of India, 1580-1630
Such blanket dismissals that the 'West' does not understand Afghanistan (as if knowledge on Afghanistan is a non-Western preserve), or that independent scholars working in Western universities are condemned to a monolithic viewpoint by default, underscores the review's curious
Occidentalism.
It was not clear that Latour had done sufficient homework to avoid the projections of Western orientalism or to parry Chinese
occidentalism. Latour had trouble making clear what he wanted from China, but he seemed to be asking Chinese intellectuals to contribute to his own project of "re-describing" the world (to better investigate the connections between nature and society), without appreciating the deeper distinctiveness of traditional Chinese culture or the ways contemporary Chinese often want to imitate the West.
"Houellebecq's
Occidentalism," Australian Humanities Review 62(November): 65-78.
Gulumbe, "Evaluation of in vitro antimicrobial activities and phytochemical constituents of Cassia
occidentalism in Proceedings of the Animal Reserarch International, vol.
To begin, the introduction considers Latin America's place in post-colonial studies and introduces key topics such as "
Occidentalism / Post-Occidentalism," "Orientalism / Post-Orientalism" and the "Locus of Enunciation." Fiddian explains that he will use these theories and apply them to the work of Borges in the remainder of the book to create the "postcolonial profile" of his subject.