We other Spartans: Orientalism, Occidentalism and the enemy “other”

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Main author: Adib-Moghaddam, Arshin
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description The article deals with enemy images in east and west and their historical invention. Connecting the reader to current controversies about “Muslim bans”, the article guides the reader through the nexus of power and knowledge with a particular emphasis on the discourse of Orientalism and Occidentalism.This type of discourse is retroactive, not only because of its ideological content;, it is in fact and quite directly retroactive. Above everything else, the idea that there are essential, unbridgeable differences between cultures and by extension human beings is simply false. This urge to identify us in strict opposition to others has to be resisted, firstly because it is a false polarisation and secondly because it negates the prospect of dialogue and sustainable peace.
format Journal Article
author Adib-Moghaddam, Arshin
author_facet Adib-Moghaddam, Arshin
authorStr Adib-Moghaddam, Arshin
author_letter Adib-Moghaddam, Arshin
title We other Spartans: Orientalism, Occidentalism and the enemy “other”
publisher Mehdi Zakerian
publishDate 2017
url https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/34683/

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