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Geopolitics, Culture Clash, and Gender after September 11

2005· article· en· W19016911 on OpenAlexaff
Sherene H. Razack

Bibliographic record

VenueSocial Justice A Journal of Crime Conflict & World Order · 2005
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicWhitehead's Philosophy and Applications
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBarbarismPower (physics)SociologyLawEmpireIdeologyColonialismPrestigeGender studiesPatriarchyTerrorismHistoryCriminologyCivilizationPolitical sciencePolitics

Abstract

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Culture clashes were essential to success of racial myths, for throughout history foreigner outside tribe has never been truly welcome.--George L. Mosse (1985: xxvii) ... imperialist feminist desire to emancipate woman is part of system based on disciplining and normalizing gaze of modern colonial disciplinary power.--Meyda Yegenoglu (1998:111) The modern woman is first and foremost an imperialist.--Rosemary M. George (1993-1994: 97) THE ATTACKS ON THE WORLD TRADE CENTER AND PENTAGON ON SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, have resulted in 'antiterrorism measures that have included surveillance, stigmatization, and actual incarceration of men considered Muslim looking or Arab looking. In this climate, to write about violent men guarantees royalties and prestige of being on bestseller lists. When writing is done by Western feminists, both and non-Muslim, it provides ideological justifications for War on Terror and U.S. bid for empire. The post-September 11 climate has also enabled Western feminists to use Israeli-Palestinian conflict as evidence of violence of and Arab men. In recent years, there has been steady stream of books and articles announcing that current Israeli administration is entirely justified in its treatment of Palestinians and that those who criticize Israel are simply being anti-Semitic. (1) In many of these texts, violence women endure at hands of men becomes marker of men's barbarism and reason why claims of Palestinians, who are mainly Muslims, are unacceptable. This logic is available at glance in subway posters in San Francisco in which blond woman announces that she has just been to Israel, land where women have equal rights. In this article, I argue that convergence of U.S. War on Terror and its inextricable links to U.S. support of Israel has produced particular geopolitical terrain in post-September 11 period that has enabled blatant racism to be articulated in name of feminism. As I will show, seemingly disparate strands of this political position are bound together and given coherency by notion of culture in that West, Jews included, are caught up in violent clash with Islamic world. The clash is cultural in origin: Islam is everything West is not. Furthermore, as fatally pre-modern, tribal, non-democratic, and religious, barbarism of Islam is principally evident in treatment of women in communities. Of course, this approach is not new. As Edward Said (1992: 25) pointed out long ago in The Question of Palestine, argument that turns colonial dispossession of people into story of an empty land awaiting European improvement draws on the picture of handful of European Jews hewing civilization of sweetness and light out of Black Islamic sea. Yet if notion of Black Islamic sea has long been marshaled in support of state of Israel's oppressive policies toward Palestinians, today it has gained greater currency and bodies of woman have been useful to argument. What are implications for feminists of these two geopolitical conditions, in which woman's body is constituted as simply marker of community's place in modernity? First, pervasiveness of violence against women in West is eclipsed. Additionally, saving women from excesses of their society marks Western men and women as more civilized. Observing that the declaration of an emancipated status for Western woman is contingent upon representation of Oriental woman as her devalued other, Yegenoglu (1998: 105) reminds us that women can only enter privileged space of universal through a masculine gesture. Just as men claim universal for themselves by confining women outside of it as non-rational subjects, so Western woman requires culturally different body to make her own claim of universality. …

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.158
Threshold uncertainty score0.529

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0020.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0000.002
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.1580.053

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.023
GPT teacher head0.297
Teacher spread0.274 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

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machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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