This essay provides an in-depth analysis of E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India through the lens of postcolonial criticism, with a specific focus on Edward Said’s theory of Orientalism. It explores the complexities of colonial relationships in India during the British Raj, examining themes of power dynamics, cultural dominance, and racial discriminat...
Travel agencies provide exciting opportunities for tourists to gain new experiences, allowing them to learn more about foreign countries. However, travel agencies also have a role in creating and maintaining problematic aspects of the tourism industry. Thailand is a country with one of the most prominent tourism industries in the world, which has a...
This study focuses on the portrayal of Zen buddhism according to the counterculture icon Alan Watts; to see how he distinguishes the relationship between east and west, what differences Zen has in its character compared to other schools of buddhism, and how Zen could be of use for the western world. To acquire relevant and important information the...
The article concerns the memoirs and letters of Michał Czajkowski, one of the main representatives of the Polish community in the Ottoman Empire and the author of interesting, synthetic historiosophical concepts. Article focuses on the issue of Czajkowski’s palimpsest identity (Polish, Cossack, Turkish and Eastern in general) and his views on the d...
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...
[EN] Orientalism, as a variant of exoticism in the Romantic period, adopted a series of topics linked to distant countries and oriental cultures, including Spanish lands, especially Andalusian. This phenomenon was especially prolific in the world of the arts around the Alhambra, «doubly romantic for its medieval and oriental origin» (Raquejo, 1989)...
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 ...
This study proposes to define the involvement of French Catholics under the pontificate of Pius 12th (r. 1939-1958), with a focus on their discourse on Islam and the Muslims within the Mediterranean realm. In a demographic context in which Muslim growth was superior to the average global increase, some rejected political change or sought to delay i...
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...
