Orientalism, proposed by Edward Said (1995), refers to the network of interlocking discourses about the “orient” constructed in western civilization. The orients, in western conceptions, are stereotypically inflated others drastically different from the collective imagination of the civilized West. Said’s argument was initially focused more on Europe and Islamic Culture, but has been applied to...

estimating similarity is expressed in many domains and sciences. for instance, data mining, web mining, clustering, search engines, ontology mapping and social networks require the definition and deployment of similarity. user similarity in social networks is one of the main problems and has many applications in this area. in this paper, a new method is introduced for combining structural and n...

the idea of islamization of science is among the important issues of islamic countries of which ziaeddin sardar proposed a new theory. in his theory, the critique of western secularism and orientalism play a central role. he has given a definition of science in the framework of cultural tradition, and has tried to refer to the tradition of sunnah and quran, by redefining islamic fundamental ter...

This article is a case study of Yokomitsu Riichi’s (1898-1947) novel Shanghai (1928, 1932) and the way the novel reflects changing Japanese views of China during the period of Japanese imperial expansion. Drawing for its theoretical framework on Edward Said’s epochal Orientalism (1978), the article argues that Japan’s perception of China in the early twentieth century was shaped by the emergenc...

Orientalism as a literary phenomenon has been recently focused on by different writers all over the world. Many of those who write about have not same understanding, and divergences are reproduced due to attitudes toward Orientalism. From various studies concerning Orientalism, there apparent tributaries confronting understanding concept from perspectives. Edward Said is one who, according what...

Writer(s): Gerard Aleñá Naval Title: Ideology and Orientalism in American and Cuban news media

This paper develops a methodology which allows the correlation between the cost which is required for the application of preventive and mitigation measures dealing with accidents which occur within a railway system and the improvement of the level of safety as a result from their implementation. The safety level is expressed either quantitatively, by the decrease of “fatality risk” indicator...