There is not only one Islam, but many interpretations and practices, … not one gender, but many … and not one sexuality, but many …
Continue ReadingAsef Bayat: Neo-Orientalism
Anecdotal stereotyping of ‘other’ peoples and cultures is neither new nor of course limited to the West. But things become more serious when stereotypical imaginations get articulated by systematic, ‘scientific’, and authoritative apparatuses of knowledge production. Orientalism …
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