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Posts Tagged ‘orientalism’

Atlantic Orientalism: How Language in Jefferson’s America Defeated the Barbary Pirates

by Angela Sutton • 20 Dec 09
Journal: Issues | Pirates and Piracy [5]

“In this work, I have most attempted a full description of the many hellish torments and punishments those piratical sea-rovers invent and inflict on the unfortunate Christians who may by chance unhappily fall into their hands…”[1] wrote John Foss, an…


Mapping Fashion, Cities, Identities and the World Fashion Conquest

by Wessie Ling and Christian Huck • 26 Oct 08
Journal: Interviews

In her first solo show, WESSIELING presented ‘Mapping Motifs: An exploratory journey through fashion, cities and identities’ at the AVA Gallery in London. The work comprised six Chinese dresses (qipao); otherwise identical, each dress had the fashionable streets of different fashion metropolises printed on the textile.


What did you expect old boy? This is the Tate Britain!

by Ali Nobil Ahmad • 7 Jul 08
Journal: Reviews | events

William Allan, The Slave Market, Constantinople, 1838, National Gallery of Scotland

Around about the time when digital torture porn from Abu Ghraib established racialised sadism and hardcore sexual violence as the aesthetic co-ordinates of contemporary western imperialism, someone…


Queerness as Europeanness: Immigration, Orientialist Visions and Racialized Encounters in Israel/Palestine

by Adi Kuntsman • 2 May 08
Journal: Issues | Postcolonial Sexuality [3]

Over the last 15 years more than a million people have immigrated to Israel from the former Soviet Union, welcomed by the Israeli ‘Law of Return’ that grants immediate citizenship and financial support to all Jews and their family members.…