A request for a moratorium on the alteration of our natural campus environment was made to the President at his press conference February 16,1970. "Everything in nature is related," said Edward Shaw, author of the statement. Such things as the wanton destruction of trees and underbrush in the campus lake area can upset the ecology. It is important that we work with nature and not against it, be...

The Western fascination with Persia, intensified though it was by the nineteenth century obsession with Indo-European languages, extends back into the classical origins of European culture. As Edward Said notes, Aeschylus' The Persians demonstrates how deeply embedded in the European mind is the belief in Persia's quintessential status as an Oriental society. For many Orientalists Persia demons...

The concept of dispossession has become ubiquitous in contemporary critical theory, including analyses settler colonialism and Indigenous scholarship. It suggests that addition to being colonised, peoples have been deprived their lands the territorial foundations societies. Critics, however, allege theories arguments are inconsistent, arguing did not conceptions land as property or possession. ...

Many independent nations with strong tourism economies have colonial pasts. In parts of Africa and Asia, former colonial powers have left post-colonial legacies of language, buildings, trade and diplomatic links, and government bureaucratic structures (Ashcroft, Griffiths, & Tiffin, 2007; Sharp, 2009; Zein-Alabdin, 2009). There are also strong postcolonial influences on tourism (Carrigan, 2011;...

Partindo do princípio da historicidade produção e recepção de obras ficcionais, este artigo recupera a figura escritor Albert Camus, por meio romance O Estrangeiro, tecendo considerações sobre maneira como o crítico Edward Said trata obra autor no interior debate cultura imperialismo. É importante perceber que base interpretativa Said, ao incluir Camus nas discussões imperialismo, é distinta da...