{"product_id":"orientalism-and-war-tarak-barkawi-9780199327782","title":"Orientalism and War","description":"Orientalism is a system of truths that imagines the world can be meaningfully understood in terms of a distinction between \"West\" and \"East\" from the Greek and Persian Wars onwards. It is also about an institutionalised community of experts who represent with authority this world of East and West, as for example in media and policy discussions of the Islamic sources of terrorism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe papers in this volume, which include chapters by Bruce Cumings, Susan Jeffords, and John Mowitt among others, explore three dimensions of the relations between Orientalism and war. The first concerns the representations of \"Self\" and \"Other\" that mark the participation of Orientalism in war and which, for example, suffuse media coverage of the War on Terror. Second are the ways in which war is productive of Orientalisms. It is in and through violent conflict that various Western and Eastern identities are defined and come to be taken for granted. The third is about the inverse relation: how Orientalisms amount to acts of war. By redefining politics and identities in such a way as to require a West that brings order to an unstable, violent East, Orientalism is productive of war. Patrick Porter closes the volume in an afterword about the themes explored in these papers and questions for further reflection.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tarak Barkawi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0199327785\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199327782\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/08\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.70h x 5.60w x 1.10d","brand":"Tarak Barkawi","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43914263462143,"sku":"9780199327782","price":37.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_ad98cd88-ccb7-4225-b2f6-bd069269f916.jpg?v=1680641289","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/orientalism-and-war-tarak-barkawi-9780199327782","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}