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A Cultural Failure: Reification, Orientalism, Nationalism
Ch. 4. P. 113–152.
In this chapter, I draw on the critical theories of race and racism, discussed in Chapter 1, that problematise the uses of the concept of culture today in the West. Culture is often deployed to explain issues like poverty and civic dis-empowerment as well as economic crisis, state bankruptcy and corruption, in a rather depoliticised way (Lentin & Titley, 2011: 61). Therefore, the uses of culture to explain systemic flaws only depoliticise social problems, diverting public attention from the structures of power and privilege that undeline such problems, while blaming those oppressed by the politico-economic system the most.
Girinsky A., Russia in Global Affairs 2026 Vol. 24 No. 1 P. 168–178
The article examines the cultural relationship between Russia and the East. It argues that Russian culture and philosophy developed during a period of growing Sinophobia and nationalism toward Asian and Eastern peoples. The author believes that overcoming Eurocentrism requires a radical shift in cultural and educational policies. ...
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Ёмота И., Неприкосновенный запас. Дебаты о политике и культуре 2024 № 5 (157) С. 68–97
Аn essay entitled “Edward Said in East Asia: Several Cases of Reception”, written specially for NZ by the Japanese cultural historian, translator and prominent cultural figure Inuhiko Yomota. This genre is not very familiar for our readers: historical and cultural reflections on how and why Said’s Orientalism was perceived differently in South Korea, China and ...
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Evgenij Zelenev, Iran and the Caucasus 2024 Vol. 28 No. 4-5 P. 478–489
This article examines the history, current state and prospects of Oriental and African Studies (oas) in modern Russia. It explains why there are several educational models of oas at bachelor’s and master’s degree in Russia and describes the current situation where 22 Russian universities offering oas programmes produce graduates with mostly only two majors, i.e., ...
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Perry Ivie Young, Columbia Journal of History 2019 No. 2 P. 106–122
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Zelenev E., В кн.: Caucaso-Caspica: Труды Института востоковедения Российско-Армянского (Славянского) университета. Выпуск VII-IX (2023-2024)Вып. VIII-IX.: Ер.: Издательство РАУ, 2024. С. 135–149.
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Novikova V., Восток. Афро-азиатские общества: история и современность 2024 № 2 С. 165–175
The article discusses the main approaches and discourses that are used in writing the history of Jewish communities in the Mamlūk Sultanate (1250–1517). The review on the topic includes the classics of the Jewish history, studies of contemporary authors in English, Arabic and Hebrew. Two main approaches are distinguished. There are two approaches. The first ...
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Мелентьев Д. В., В кн.: Востоковедные полевые исследования: материалы всероссийской научной конференции 2021-2022 гг. Том 2, избранные докладыТ. 2. Кн. 2.: М.: ИВ РАН, 2023. С. 132–151.
This article is devoted to the field Oriental studies, which were
carried out by the Soviet women’s departments employees in the first half of
1920s in Turkestan. In this study, I made an attempt to introduce new Turkestan
women’s departments archival documents into scientific circulation, alike
to analyze them in the context of the interaction of power and academic
knowledge. ...
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М.: ИВ РАН, 2023.
This publication is a collection of selected papers
presented at the first and second sessions of the annual All-Russian
scientific conference "Oriental field research", which
were held April 19-20, 2021 and April 20-21, 2022. The main direction
topics of reports were problems, results and prospects of field
oriental studies - underwater archaeological, archaeological,
anthropological, linguistic, epigraphic, ethnographic,
sociological and others. In the ...
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Kanaeva N., Шиков А. А., Васильев Г. В., Идеи и идеалы 2023 Т. 15 № 1 С. 44–60
This article is devoted to the critical arguments against orientalism put forward by the French mystic Réne Guénon (1886–1951) in his three books: A General Introduction to the Study of Hindu Teachings (1921), East and West (1924), Man and His Realization according to Vedanta (1925), and in the paper Eastern Metaphysics (1925). These arguments have ...
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Nefedova O., Ермакова Е., Гейбатова Л. et al., М.: Издательский дом Марджани, 2023.
Книга-альбом «Взгляд на Восток в российском изобразительном искусстве XIX–XXI веков» = A Look at the Orient in Russian Fine Art of the 19th – 21st Centuries – новое издание Фонда Марджани и ИД «Медина», выпущенное при содействии Фонда поддержки исламской культуры, науки и образования. ...
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Мелентьев Д. В., Восток свыше 2023 № 3-4 С. 46–59
This article is devoted to the art heritage and personality of the Uzbek photojournalist Max Penson. The study analyses his photographs as visible results of the success gender modernization in Soviet Central Asia. At the same time, the photographs reflected the aesthetics and personal style of Max Penson, characteristic of the era of Lenin and ...
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Sineokaya N., , in: Язык и культура в глобальном мире.: СПб.: Лема, 2023. P. 380–383.
the article examines the communicative strategy of mitigation in the Women's political discourse in Germany, which belongs to the cooperative discourse. The concept of mitigation is described. Mitigation is aimed at softening categorical statements, creating a favorable atmosphere for communication and avoiding conflict in communication in general. The texts of interviews are analyzed in order ...
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Nosachev P., Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета. Серия 1: Богословие. Философия. Религиоведение 2022 № 99 С. 93–110
The article presents an overview of the development of research on Western esotericism in the works of the younger generation of scientists in 2010-2021, the works of E. Asprem, Y. Strube, L. Saif are primarily distinguished. At the beginning, a general outline of the current state of esotericism research is given, then the analysis of ...
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Шерстюков С. А., Востоковедение: история и методология 2021 № 2 С. 106–120
This essay analyses the narratives of Soviet writers on Central Asia who travelled to Turkmenistan in 1930 at the height of the Cultural Revolution. By focusing on several semantic blocks (‘history’, ‘space’, ‘Islam’, ‘women’ and ‘exoticism’), the author tries to understand the ways and means Soviet writers used to incorporate Central Asia into the space of the ...
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Саид Э. В., М.: Музей современного искусства "Гараж", 2021.
Данная книга - новый перевод на русский язык уже ставшего классическим труда Эдварда В. Саида «Ориентализм». В центре внимания этой книги - генеалогия европейской мысли о «Востоке», функционирование этого умозрительного концепта и его связь с реальностью. Автор подробно характеризует возможные истоки этого концепта, поднимая проблему «канона», но основной фокус его рассуждений сосредоточен на сложных отношениях ...
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Mylonas Y., , in: Mediated Shame of Class and Poverty Across Europe.: Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. Ch. 10 P. 183–200.
This chapter focuses on media practices of shaming, as performed during the early years of the so-called Greek crisis (2009–2015) by the news media of Germany, Denmark and Greece. The chapter shows that the hegemonic publicity around the ‘Greek crisis’ cumulated into a public shaming practice of the Greek people, ridiculed by media spectacles of crisis. ...
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Volkov D. V., Middle Eastern Studies 2022 Vol. 58 No. 6 P. 989–1003
Although the history of Russian-Iranian relations remains seriously understudied, few would refute the oppressive imperialist role played by Imperial Russia in Iran during the nineteenth century and the first two decades of the twentieth century. However, practically nothing has been written about the conceptual shifts which began to take place in Russia’s Persian policy immediately ...
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Mylonas Y., , in: The “Greek Crisis” in Europe: Race, Class and Politics.: Leiden: Brill, 2019. Ch. 3 P. 87–112.
This chapter presents an account of the political role of the media. The discus-sion of media and politics begins with the notion of the public sphere and its critical conceptualisation as a field colonised by the strategic economic in-terests and ideological premises of capital and the upper classes (Dean, 2002, 2009, 2017; Negt & Kluge, ...
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Mylonas Y., Noutsou M., Nordicom Review 2021 Vol. 42 No. 3 P. 56–70
This article focuses on the ways in which the Danish liberal mainstream press covered events related to the so-called Greek crisis. In particular, we examine the coverage of the different Greek national elections that took place during the Greek crisis years (2010–2019) by Jyllands-Posten (JP), a popular Danish daily newspaper. Qualitative content analysis is deployed ...
Added: April 13, 2021
Mylonas Y., , in: The Industrialization of Creativity and Its Limits: Values, Politics and Lifestyles of Contemporary Cultural Economies.: Cham: Springer, 2020. P. 95–111.
This chapter focuses on discursive constructions of creativity in the Greek public sphere in connection to the Greek government debt crisis. Instrumentalized by policy makers and pundits pursuing neoliberal reforms in Greece, creativity is understood to serve a mode of biopolitical governmentality. This is connected to the production of a national consensus over the necessity ...
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