orientalism
June 23, 2009
- As an "eastern" woman who has lived nearly half her life in the "west," I can admit to a personal interests in debates that tackle issues of gender, race, colonialist history and sex. After all it is an immensely rich vein to mine for political, social, emotional narratives. So I was obviously intrigued by a book review emailed to me about Richard Bernstein's The East, The ...
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November 9, 2008
- In an earlier post, I talked about why I thought it was important to defend The Jewel of Medina. I wrote the post at the beginning of the Jewel scandal, before the book’s publication, when any argument about the work was necessarily abstract. The Jewel of Medina scandal, at its heart, had nothing to do with The Jewel of Medina: it was about manufactured outrage, authorial rights, religion, and ...
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October 9, 2008
- Here begins the plunder blog. Where the law is considered illegal; where the dominantwisdom is chalenged; where we begin planning for the aftermath of the collaps of corporate capitalism.Here is what a student that recently attended a seminar on Plunder wrote me: Hi Prof. Mattei, I am a student in both your Comparative Law course and Political Economy of the Law seminar. I just wanted to thank ...
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