Idea of the West

Culture, Politics and History

Häftad, Engelska, 2004

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Beskrivning

The West is on everyone's lips: it is defended, celebrated, hated. But how and why did it emerge? And whose idea is it? This book is about representations of the West. Drawing on sources from across the world - from Russia to Japan, Iran to Britain - it argues that the West is not merely a Western idea but something that many people around the world have long been creating and stereotyping. The Idea of the West looks at how the great political and ethnic forces of the last century defined themselves in relation to the West, addresses how Soviet communism, 'Asian spirituality', 'Asian values' and radical Islamism used and deployed images of the West. Both topical and wide-ranging, it offers an accessible but provocative portrait of a fascinating subject and it charts the complex relationship between whiteness and the West.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2004-08-26
Mått:155 x 235 x 12 mm
Vikt:254 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:201
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781403900357

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ALASTAIR BONNETT is Professor of Social Geography at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He is author of four books, including Anti-Racism (Routledge, 2000) and White Identities: Historical and International Perspectives (Pearson Education 2000). He has contributed papers to Ethnic and Racial Studies, Journal of Historical Sociology, Sociology, New Community and many other leading journals. He has also written for History Today, The New Internationalist, The Scotsman, the Observer and New Statesman.

Innehållsförteckning

INTRODUCTIONThe West: Ancient and ModernKnowing the WestGeography and the WorldChapters in a Global HistoryFROM WHITE TO WESTERN: 'RACIAL DECLINE' AND THE IDEA OF THE WEST IN BRITAIN, 1890-1930IntroductionWhite DecayThe West's West: BeginningsThe Western Path Out of White CrisisConclusionsCOMMUNISTS LIKE US: THE IDEA OF THE WEST IN THE SOVIET UNIONIntroductionThe West Versus CommunismRussia's WestThe Revolutionary WestThe Western EnemyThe 'Kidnapped West' and Russia's 'Return'ConclusionsGOOD-BYE ASIA: THE WESTERNISERS WEST, FUKUZAWA AND GOKALPIntroductionThe Uses of the WestFukuzawa Yukichi: Occidentalism and Nationalism in JapanZiya Gokalp: Finding Turkey, Inventing the WestConclusionsSOULLESS OCCIDENTSPIRITUAL ASIA: TAGORE'S WESTIntroductionAsia is One: The West as Spiritual VoidWho Wants to be Asian?: The Failure of Tagore's Mission to the EastAsian Spirituality: Transcending the WestConclusions: Tagore and ModernityFROM SOULLESS TO SLACKER: THE IDEA OF THE WEST FROM PAN-ASIANISM TO ASIAN VALUESIntroduction: Forget TagorePan-Asianism: Eastern Redemption, Western NationalismThe Slacker West and Asian ValuesConclusionsOCCIDENTAL UTOPIA:THE NEO-LIBERAL WESTIntroductionSocial Democracy: The Unproclaimed WestWesternisation: Victory in DefeatNeo-liberal Democracy: Western Triumph and Western Blue-printConclusions: The Vulnerability of the Neo-liberal ModelWESTERN DYSTOPIA: RADICAL ISLAMISM AND ANTI-WESTERNISMIntroductionThe Clash of Utopias?The Islamisation of Anti-WesternismConclusions: Islamism and Neo-liberal GlobalisationConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex.