Modern Foreign Language (MFL) education has long been described as being ‘in crisis’ by virtue of a decline in the numbers students entered for exams at age 16 and 18. Whilst this is generally attributed to policy, harsh grading rise global English, paper challenges view positioning intersection feminising subject an othering speakers languages taught. Using loosely Foucauldian form discourse a...

The East is often portrayed as dangerous or mysterious in numerous Western literary works that attempt to depict it. As Edward Said has argued, this due the tendencies view fundamentally other and inferior. Rather than resisting such preconceived notions, Khaled Hosseini his novel Kite Runner (2003) reflected a pro-Western stance through stereotypical representation of Afghanistan which fits in...

The article is devoted to three directions of oriental architecture – cult, palace and park. Its main part concerns the Budapest synagogues. As an example Russian orientalism, phenomenon Black Sea palaces highest St. Petersburg aristocracy given. Hungarian masterpiece park architecture, elephant house in zoo Budapest, analyzed. It concluded that Orientalism had influence on formation national s...

Islamophobia in India, with the coming to power of BJP, a Hindutva (Indian nationalist) party, is on increase. To understand approach this article diverts from studies that focus empirical data incidence and discriminatory legislation construct figure Muslim as Other. My focuses Hindutvaism British Orientalist construction 18th-century Tipu Sultan signifier marking Muslims Orientalists during c...

following the 9/11 attacks in 2001, several novels were published dealing directly or indirectly with the effects of the event on individuals- both inside and outside of the united states. though the novels often claim to deal with the post traumatic aftermath of the incident, writers have adhered to orientalist stereotyping and it seems that after 9/11 such attitudes towards muslims and arabs ...

Abstract In 2014 the Chinese State Council announced establishment of a nationwide comprehensive social credit system. Western narratives often describe initiative as technologically enhanced tool autocratic control for scoring people. Yet, paper aims to show, similar accounts are tainted by several misunderstandings which perpetuate orientalist postures towards law. For purpose comparatively a...

Antidepressants increased the risk compared to placebo of suicidal thinking and behavior (suicidality) in children, adolescents, and young adults in short-term studies of major depressive disorder (MDD) and other psychiatric disorders. Anyone considering the use of [insert established name] or any other antidepressant in a child, adolescent, or young adult must balance this risk with the clinic...