Published in Frontiers in Sociology
This article focuses on investigating how Russian colonialism has re-invented Ukrainian identity and framed its perception both in Ukraine and in Western societies. Although postcolonial approaches to studying power hierarchies have contributed a lot to our understanding of global inequalities, Ukraine has long been excluded from this interdiscipli...
This special issue brings together nine articles under the rubric “Christianity and Islam in the Middle Ages: between coexistence and conflict”. The articles explore various aspects of the intellectual, social, legal and ideological aspects of relations between Christians and Muslims. The title of our issue might seem to suggest binary oppositions ...
The historiography concerning Medieval Christian Muslim-Relations over the past sixty years has been shaped by two important books: Norman Daniel’s Islam and the West (1960) and Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978). Each of these works made significant contributions to the field, but each also had serious methodological limitations. Both works assumed ...
Le présent article concerne la poétesse italienne Vittoria Aganoor (1855-1910), fille d’Edoardo Aganoor, aristocrate d’origine arménienne. Son précepteur, le père Zanella, grand poète et pédagogue, a décelé son talent poétique dès sa jeunesse. Dès les années 1870, elle publie des poèmes dans des revues littéraires : son premier livre sort en 1900 e...
Tor Andræ’s I myrtenträdgården is the only comprehensive work on sufism written in Swedish language. The concept ”sufism” is interesting when it comes to conceptual shifts and according to Carl W. Ernst, ”sufism” is a westernised construction of an eastern phenomenon. This study examines Andræ's text in the light of Ernst's theory. The aim is to in...
The article shed light on the little-known travel of the painter Tarsila do Amaral and the writer Oswald de Andrade to the Middle East in early 1926. Presents empirical research on the path followed by the couple of “Modernists” and other participants in the Journey. The aim is to reflect on the extent the trip impacted their work. On the other han...
This thesis provides an analysis of how the Danish media represented the Syrian refugees between the years 2015-2022. This is achieved by doing comparative research by analyzing 27 different articles about the refugee groups from four major Danish newspapers. A Multimodal Discourse Analysis is applied, where the images and word phrasing of the arti...
My dissertation develops a cultural history of techno-Orientalist discourse through a close reading of the long history of androids, robots, and other embodied AI in science fiction, what I term, the AI imaginary. While scholars have examined how the dehumanization of Asians in techno-Orientalism relies on analogy to technology, I consider that the...
In the 1910s, an Indian prince and a white American socialite made history by falling in love, and eventually eloping and marrying each other. The romantic relationship of Inayat Khan, an elite and famous musician from Baroda in India, and Ora Ray Baker, an upper-class woman born in New Mexico in America, is a unique case in the context of early-20...
