Edward Said On Orientalism

By on    Civilisation and philosophy, Conflict - violence and war, CULTURE, Palestine and Israel, Psychology - war and peace, Sociology, US Empire decline  

Edward Said On Orientalism

  By Edward Said Edward Said’s book “Orientalism” has been profoundly influential in a diverse range of disciplines since its publication in 1978. In this engaging (and lavishly illustrated) interview he talks about the context within which the book was conceived, its main themes and how its original thesis relates to the contemporary understanding of […]

Culture

By on    CULTURE, Essays - broadly, Peace Culture, Peace education, Peace philosophy, TFF BLOG, TFF global posts 2018, TFF global posts 2019, TFF global posts 2020, TFF global posts 2021  

Culture is as difficult to define as peace. It has many connotations – ways of living and thinking, cultural production, social cosmology, habits and mores, civilisation etc. We’re not too keen on strict classifications. Here we publish materials that fall in a few categories – all in some way related to what it would take […]