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Research Faculty Current Endeavors
12. Orientalism and Postcolonialism Postcolonialism is a principal theme in the work of Arindam Dutta and Nasser Rabbat. Dutta recently contributed a piece on labor and nineteenth century public works in a compilation entitled Constructing Colonial India, forthcoming from Oxford University Press. He has also published in the journal Grey Room an account of the 1872 assassination of the Viceroy Mayo by a Pashtun tribal, focusing on the manner in which extra-territorial considerations by elite powers might be seen to driving different forms of global governance, determining terms as mutually distant as "preservation" and tribal law as coefficients of international power. Rabbat has also worked on this topic especially in connection with his seminar on Orientalism and Representation. He recently published an essay on Hassan Fathy and the identity debate (2003) and another one on the construction of history in contemporary Arabic writing (“Le classicisme, version arabe contemporaine," Qantara, 2002).
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