This article is a response to calls for more reflexivity in media scholarship. It argues that despite various attempts towards challenging the ‘Western-centrism’ of field (notable among them ‘de-Westernisation’ project), studies has remained highly captive distinctions between ‘West’ and ‘non-West’ as principal starting point analysis. Building on Edward Said’s concept Orientalism, employing id...

The objective of this study is to draw upon the Orients’ skewed representation perpetuated and disseminated by Khaled Hosseini in his Anglophone fiction Kite Runner A Thousand Splendid Suns under framework Re-orientalism. Re-orientalism extends itself as a concept where Oriental author propagates literature mystifying East barbaric uncivilized turn validating hypothesis suppress rule Orient. Th...

Whilst the discipline of psychology has an indigenous critical and feminist tradition, postmodern feminist approaches have developed from, as well as alongside, the broader philosophical and theoretical critiques generated initially in other disciplines. The focus of postmodern feminist work in psychology is on the construction of gender and relations of power. It seeks to unpack the discursive...

The European Union has aspired to create an “ever closer union” among its people since the articulation of the European Union citizenship has been an important instrument towards it. However, attempts at creating this “ever closer union” have focused on homogenizing European citizens as a single entity without taking into account the heterogeneous differentials among such citizens. Gender diffe...

Bu yazı Remzi Avcı’nın Kurgu ile Gerçeklik Arasında Alman Oryantalizmi başlıklı eserini tahlil etmektedir. Yazı boyunca eserin muhtevası özetle tanıtılmakta ve oryantalizminin aktörlerinden Carl Heinrich Becker (1876-1933) Martin Hartmann’ın (1851-1918) Osmanlı İmparatorluğunun son dönemine dair görüşleri analiz edilmektedir. Kitap Hartmann örneğinde siyasallaşmasını toplum siyasetini merkeze a...

This research explores cultural shifts in the popularity of the Disney princess in American culture, especially its postmodern resurgence, as well as the complex relationship between Disney’s recent representations of women in the 1990’s and post-feminist ideology. My project begins by analyzing the historic appearance of the Disney female in relation to the women’s movements. I also examine li...

This essay explores aspirations and expectations of women’s rights, the sympathy for and reasons for women’s destinies by analyzing the forms of expression and tracing the ideas of feminist awareness in Fang Fang's novels in terms of feminist wishes in survival predicaments, struggles in literature fields, and feminists’ pursuits in daily life, with highlighting the standout points of a number ...

The current study investigates how digital technologies can potentially be used to re-orientate the global narrative on Vietnam, overcome an imbalance in representation and help redress orientalism. Global allow Vietnamese cultural professionals reach beyond borders of their nation become part art world. With this,they participate production, dissemination, circulation discourses culture global...