Power and Knowledge

Musallam, Basim; Said, Edward W.

doi:10.2307/3012369

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“…Based on Foucault's arguments, Said (1994) pointed out that the "relationship between Occident and Orient is a relationship of power, of domination, of varying degrees of a complex hegemony" (p. 5). Despite criticisms by several scholars (Halliday, 1993;Kerr, 1980;Lewis, 1982;Musallam, 1979;Turner, 1989), Said's critique has played an important role in exposing the oppressiveness of imperial forms of knowledge. Said established the need to question Orientalist knowledge, to resist from the margins, and to violate the borders between the periphery and the center.…”

Section: Representations Of Islam Muslims and Arabsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Islam and Democracy

Mishra

2008

Journal of Communication Inquiry

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Comparison of post-9/11 representations of Islam and democracy in the U.S. prestige press shows that despite differences in coverage in the Turkish, Iraqi, and Iranian contexts, fear of political Islam persisted in all three discursive environments. While a political role for Islam was regarded as a threat to democracy, the U.S. prestige press emphasized the need to secularize and modernize Islam according to Western standards to render it compatible with democracy. It highlighted human rights abuses in Iran and expressed concerns about the possibility of Iraq becoming another "Iran" if the power of religious parties went unchecked. Dominant discourses in the U.S. prestige press often assumed that any visibility of religious commitment in the public and political sphere automatically implied a lack of commitment to democracy, human rights, and women's rights. Discourses that contested dominant perspectives on Islam and democracy by questioning Western hegemonic definitions were limited.

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Section: Representations Of Islam Muslims and Arabsmentioning

confidence: 99%