Vocabulary 1
"_____ refers to the long-standing Western fascination with the East and t tendency to divide the world up into East and West, with the East acting as a kt of mirror or foil by which Western culture defines itself."
Orientalism
Source: Richard King, “Orientalism and the Study of Religion,” in Hinnells, Routledge Companion to Religious Studies (2005). page 276
French philosopher 'influenced by existentialism and marxism'.
Who is Foucault
Source: Entry on Foucault from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2008, excerpt) page 2
" ______is a philosophical movement that questions the objectivity or stability of the various interpretive structures that are posited by structuralism and considers them to be constituted by broader systems of power"
p.s. not a term from the reading but an important term for approaching this weeks content
Post-structuralism
"A perimeter building in the form of a ring. At the centre of this, a tower, pierced by large windows opening on to the inner face of the ring. The outer building is divided into cells each of which traverses the whole thickness of the building. These cells have two windows, one opening on to the inside, facing the windows of the central tower, the other, outer one allowing daylight to pass through the whole cell. All that is then needed is to put an overseer in the tower and place in each of the cells a lunatic, a patient, a convict, a worker or a schoolboy."
What is Foucault’s description of Panopticon
Source: Foucault, “Power/Knowledge: Selected Essays” (1970s), page 147.
Currently is employed at The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London
Who is Professor Richard King
"The woman, or more specifically, the ____ as woman, is a figure in whom the question of ideology—as the production of subjects in whom desire and interest are never entirely symmetrical or mutually reinforcing—splits wide open.”
What is Subaltern
Source: Rosalind Morris, introduction to edited volume on “can the subaltern speak” 2010, page 3
"the historical period or state of affairs representing the aftermath of Western colonialism; the term can also be used to describe the concurrent project to reclaim and rethink the history and agency of people subordinated under various forms of imperialism"
Which author identifies as a "postcolonial feminist critic" and also works as a teacher, comparativist, and literary critic ?
Who is Gayatri Spivak
Source: Mrinalini Sebastian, discussion of the essay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpYzO6VnLfw, minute 7:30
_____ is described "as 'the Loyal Opposition’ precisely because they do not question the basic opposition between Eastern Western cultures that underlies the Orientalist enterprise."
What is 'Affirmative Orientalism'
Source: Richard King, “Orientalism and the Study of Religion,” in Hinnells, Routledge Companion to Religious Studies (2005) Page 281
"There is no _ need for arms, physical violence, material constraints. Just a ___. An inspecting ____, a ___ which each individual under its weight will end by interiorizing to the point that he is his own overseer, each individual thus exercising this surveillance over, and against, himself."
What is Foucault's deployment of the term 'Gaze'
Source: Foucault, “Power/Knowledge: Selected Essays” (1970s), page 155
Which referenced author calls their discovery the "Christopher] Columbus's egg of political thought"?
Who is Jeremy Bentham
Source: Foucault, “Power/Knowledge: Selected Essays” (1970s) page 155
"A ____ is a being that exercises agency, undergoes conscious experiences, and is situated in relation to other things that exist outside itself; thus, a ____ is any individual, person, or observer."
"An ____ is any of the things observed or experienced by a subject, which may even include other beings (thus, from their own points of view: other subjects)"
What is known as Subject/Object
Source: Subject and Object (philosophy), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subject_and_object_(philosophy)
"The academic study of the West, as a post-colonial response to the cultural and intellectual dominance of western scholarship”.
What is Occidentalism
Source: Richard King, “Orientalism and the Study of Religion,” in Hinnells, Routledge Companion to Religious Studies (2005) page 285
Name this referenced author:
"He is a key figure in postmodern French philosophy. Considering himself an empiricist and a vitalist, his body of work, which rests upon concepts such as multiplicity, constructivism, difference, and desire, stands at a substantial remove from the main traditions of 20th century Continental thought."
Gilles Deleuze
Source: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, https://iep.utm.edu/gilles-deleuze/
“____represents a contemporary response to what has been called 'westoxification' (the pollution of Islamic culture by Western influences) and a reassertion of Islamic values and beliefs in a context of Western economic, political and cultural dominance.”
What is Islamism
Source: Richard King, “Orientalism and the Study of Religion,” in Hinnells, Routledge Companion to Religious Studies (2005) page 285