Prof. SALMAN SAYYID is a Reader in Postcolonialism and Racism Studies and Director of the Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies in the School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds, UK (click here to visit the page). Here, a Amazon search of his publications. Here, Prof. Sayyid in the Lecture List (“Mirror, Mirror: Western democrats, oriental despots?”). Sayyid and Barnor Heese’s article “A war against politics?”, published at OpenDemocracy.net in 2001 here.
Sayyid started remembering us of the X-Files Affirmation: “The truth is out there”. As it may sound funny, he calls our attention to the truth that is supposed not to be based in our common sense of what is the Orient, the Islam, the Other. Below, some of his slides.
“The Scandal of Islam
How can we explain the appearance in the Modern World of something which is pre-Modern?
The disclosure of ‘Islam’ is experienced politically, since the political is sign of disruption of what is considered to be natural or conventional.”
The development of the world is just one: the Western model.
The enemy is the one that prevents you from being yourself.”
“Politics
A politics without difference is not possible, but differences are not permanent.
A politics without decisions are not possible, but all decisions are provisional.
Politics is about formation of identities
All identities are about exclusion and inclusion”
“Geopolitical Challenge
‘War Against Terror’ as grammar of international relations
Internal Security and Surveillance of ethnically marked”
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