The twenty-first century exploded into the global imagination with unforgettable scenes of death and destruction. An apocalyptic 'clash of civilizations' seemed to be waged between two old foes - 'the West' and 'Islam.' However, the decade-long and ruinous 'war on terror' has prompted re-assessments of the militaristic approach to Western-Muslim relations. A growing number of academics, policymakers, religious leaders, journalists, and activists view the struggles as resulting from a 'clash of ignorance.' Re-imagining the Other examines the ways in which knowledge is manipulated by dominant Western and Muslim discourses. Authors from several disciplines study how the two societies have constructed images of each other in historical and contemporary times. The complexities and subtleties of their mutually productive relationship are overshadowed by portrayals of unremitting clash, thus serving as encouragement for the promotion of war and terrorism. The book proposes specific approachesto re-imagine the Other in order to mitigate Western-Muslim conflict.
Erscheinungsdatum: 24.07.2014

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Øyvind Eggen; Kjell Roland

Eid, M.; Karim, K.

Macmillan Education UK

Springer Nature

Red Globe Press

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

Place of publication not identified, 2016

First edition, New York, NY, 2014

Basingstoke, 2014

Jul 24, 2014

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Source title: Re-Imagining the Other: Culture, Media, and Western-Muslim Intersections

"Title"--"Copyright" -- "Contents" -- "Preface" -- "1 Imagining the Other" -- "Notes" -- "References" -- "2 Religion and Civilization" -- "3 On the Eve of the Napoleonic Invasion: Arab Perceptions of the World" -- "The World through Eastern Christian Eyes" -- "The World through Eastern Muslim Eyes" -- "By Way of Conclusion" -- "The Lands of Christians" -- "The Lands of Muslims" -- "Notes" -- "References" -- "4 Through Tinted Lenses: Iranian and Western Perceptions and Reconstructions of the Other" -- "The Exotic West in Nineteenth-Century Travel Writing" -- "Twentieth-Century Literary Portrayals of the West" -- "When the Exotic Becomes Alien" -- "Western Perceptions of the Iranian Other" -- "The Othering of the Former Self" -- "Notes" -- "References" -- "5 The Clash of Civilizations 2.0: Race and Eurocentrism, Imperialism, and Anti-Imperialism" -- "Introduction" -- "The Post-1989 Anti-Imperialist â#x80;#x9C;Clash of Civilizations 2.0â#x80;#x9D; in the Post-1889 Scientific Racist Mirror" -- "The Demographic Roots of Western Civilizational/White Racial Decline" -- "Awarding the Barbaric Races/Civilizations High â#x80;#x9C;Predatoryâ#x80;#x9D; Agency" -- "Constructing â#x80;#x9C;Globalization-As-Barbaric Threatâ#x80;#x9D;" -- "The Critique of Multiculturalism/Liberal Cosmopolitanism" -- "Anti-Imperialist Eurocentrism in the Anti-Imperialist Racist Mirror" -- "The â#x80;#x9C;Fundamental Clashâ#x80;#x9D; between East and West" -- "Re-imagining the Dialogue of Civilizations: Muslim Origins of Western Civilization" -- "Conclusion" -- "Notes" -- "References" -- "6 Perceptions about Muslims in Western Societies" -- "Introduction" -- "Muslims Imagined by Western Societies: The Other" -- "Muslims and Western (Mis)Perceptions: Homogeneity and Fanaticism" -- "Muslims in Western Media: Anti-Western and Violent" -- "Muslims Face Western Heat: Racism, Discrimination, and Dehumanization" -- "Conclusion" -- "Notes."

The twenty-first century exploded into the global imagination with unforgettable scenes of death and destruction. An apocalyptic 'clash of civilizations' seemed to be waged between two old foes - 'the West' and 'Islam.' However, the decade-long and ruinous 'war on terror' has prompted re-assessments of the militaristic approach to Western-Muslim relations. A growing number of academics, policymakers, religious leaders, journalists, and activists view the struggles as resulting from a 'clash of ignorance.' Re-imagining the Other examines the ways in which knowledge is manipulated by dominant Western and Muslim discourses. Authors from several disciplines study how the two societies have constructed images of each other in historical and contemporary times. The complexities and subtleties of their mutually productive relationship are overshadowed by portrayals of unremitting clash, thus serving as encouragement for the promotion of war and terrorism. The book proposes specific approaches to re-imagine the Other in order to mitigate Western-Muslim conflict.

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Imagining the Other....Pages 1-21
Religion and Civilization....Pages 23-34
On the Eve of the Napoleonic Invasion: Arab Perceptions of the World....Pages 35-56
Through Tinted Lenses: Iranian and Western Perceptions and Reconstructions of the Other....Pages 57-73
The Clash of Civilizations 2.0: Race and Eurocentrism, Imperialism, and Anti-Imperialism....Pages 75-97
Perceptions about Muslims in Western Societies....Pages 99-119
A Clash of Discourses: Femicides or Honor Killings?....Pages 121-152
Islamic, Islamist, Moderate, Extremist: Imagining the Muslim Self and the Muslim Other....Pages 153-173
Religious conflict, Empire-Building, and the Imagined Other....Pages 175-194
Translating Otherness....Pages 195-215
Re-Imagining the Other....Pages 217-231
Back Matter....Pages 233-250

This volume addresses the conceptualizations of the Other carried out by Western and Muslim societies historically and in contemporary times through empirical case studies

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