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Revista De Estudios Internacionales Mediterráneos Nº 21 nº Revista de Estudios Internacionales Mediterráneos Taller de Estudios Internacionales Mediterráneos ISSN: 1887-4460 La Revista de Estudios Internacionales Mediterráneos (REIM) (ISSN: 1887-4460) es una publicación digital de acceso abierto dedicada a dar difusión a las últimas investigaciones sobre el mundo arabo-islámico con un enfoque multidisciplinar encuadrado dentro de las Ciencias Sociales Directora Ana Isabel Planet Contreras, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Secretario de redacción Miguel Hernando de Larramendi, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha Comité científico Bernabé López García, Catedrático emérito de Historia del Islam, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Mohamed Berriane, Université Mohamed V-Rabat-Agdal; Richard Gillespie, University of Liverpool; Alejandro Lorca Corrons, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Olivier Roy, European University Institute of Florence; Mohamed Tozy, Ecole de Gouvernance et d’Economie de Rabat; Juan Bautista Vilar, Universidad de Murcia; Laura Feliu Martínez, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona; María Angustias Parejo Fernández, Universidad de Granada; Nilüfer Göle, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, París; Karima Dirèche, Institut de Recherche sur le Maghreb Contemporain, Túnez; Catherine Miller, Institut de Recherche sur le Monde arabe et musulman, Aix-en-Provence; Abdallah Saaf, Université Mohamed V, Rabat; Mohand Tilmatine, Universidad de Cádiz, Alemania; Maria Cardeira da Silva, Universidade Nova de Lisboa; Charles Hirschkind, Universidad de Berkeley; Mokhtar el Harras, Université Mohamed V-Rabat-Agdal; Hayat Zirari, Université Hassan II. Mohammadia; Camila María de Pastor y Campos, Centro de Investigación y Docencia económicas, México; Eva Evers Rossander, Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, Suecia Consejo Editorial Ignacio Álvarez Ossorio, Universidad de Alicante, España; Ferrán Izquierdo Brichs, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona; Paola Gandolfi, Universidad de Bérgamo; Raquel Ojeda, Universidad de Granada; Mouna Abid, Universidad de Túnez-Cartago; Irene Fernández Molina, Universidad de Exeter, Reino Unido; Laura Mijares, Universidad Complutense de Madrid; Mercedes Jiménez, Universidade de Faro REIM Nº 20 (Julio 2016) ISSN: 1887-4460 Índice Revista de Estudios Internacionales Mediterráneos, nº 21 Monográfico Orientalismos periféricos http://dx.doi.org/10.15366/reim2016.21 Editor: María Cardeira da Silva, “Southern insights into Orient and Western Orientalisms” http://dx.doi.org/10.15366/reim2016.21.001 pp. 1-11 Eva-Maria von KEMNITZ, “Em Portugal – O Orientalismo em fragmentos” http://dx.doi.org/10.15366/reim2016.21.002 Orientalism in Portugal: A fragmented field of study pp. 13-25 Joana LUCAS, “À la périphérie de l'Empire: Constructions et représentations de la Mauritanie sous administration coloniale française” http://dx.doi.org/10.15366/reim2016.21.003 On the periphery of the Empire: Constructions and Representations of Mauritania under French Colonial administration pp. 27-45 Paulo Gabriel HILU DA ROCHA PINTO, “Labirinto de Espelhos: Orientalismos, Imigração e Discursos sobre a Nação no Brasil” http://dx.doi.org/10.15366/reim2016.21.004 A Labyrinth of Mirrors: Orientalisms, Immigration and Discourses about the Nation in Brazil pp. 47-57 Juan José VAGNI, “Escenarios periféricos y perspectivas que se reflejan: España, el mundo árabe y América Latina en la mirada de Rodolfo Gil Benumeya” http://dx.doi.org/10.15366/reim2016.21.005 Reflected Peripheral Scenarios and Perspectives: Spain, the Arab World and Latin America in the Worldview of Rodolfo Gil Benumeya pp. 59-72 Alberto LÓPEZ BARGADOS “La amenaza yihadista en España: viejos y nuevos orientalismos” http://dx.doi.org/10.15366/reim2016.21.006 The Jihadist menace in Spain: old and new Orientalisms pp. 73-00 Francisco FREIRE, “Poder e cultura nos iniciais encontros luso-saarianos: apontamentos etnográficos do sudoeste da Mauritânia (Trarza) http://dx.doi.org/10.15366/reim2016.21.007 Power and Culture in Early Luso-Saharan Encounters: Ethnographic Notes from Southwestern Mauritania (Trarza)” pp. 81-91 Leonor LOSA, “Where is our South? Locating New Imaginative Geographies in Creative Alliances between Musicians from Portugal and the Arab World “ http://dx.doi.org/10.15366/reim2016.21.008 pp. 93-106 REIM Nº 20 (Julio 2016) ISSN: 1887-4460 Bernabé LÓPEZ GARCÍA, “Los arabistas españoles ‘extramuros’ del orientalismo europeo (1820-1936) http://dx.doi.org/10.15366/reim2016.21.009 ‘Extramuros’: Spanish Arabism and European Orientalism pp. 107-117 Miscelánea Ornela FABANI, “El devenir de las relaciones entre Argentina, Emiratos Árabes Unidos y Qatar durante los gobiernos de Cristina Fernández (2007-2015): vínculos modestos en evolución” http://dx.doi.org/10.15366/reim2016.21.010 The Evolution of Relations between Argentina and the United Arab Emirates and Qatar during the Fernandez Administrations (2007-2015): Developing Modest Ties pp. 119-140 Gi Yeon KOO, “To be Myself and have My Stealthy Freedom: The Iranian Women’s Engagement with Social Media” http://dx.doi.org/10.15366/reim2016.21.011 pp. 141-157 Ruth FERRERO, “Europa sin rumbo. El fracaso de la UE en la gestión de la crisis de refugiados” http://dx.doi.org/10.15366/reim2016.21.012 Rudderless Europe: The EU’s Failure in Managing the Refugee Crisis pp. 159-176 Reseñas/Reviews GASQUET, Axel (2015), El llamado de Oriente. Historia cultural del orientalismo argentino (1900-1950), Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Eudeba, reseñado por Fernando RODRÍGUEZ MEDIANO. pp. 177-80 BADENES MARTÍN, Miguel Ángel (2016), Pascual Meneu y Meneu. Personalitat, personatge, persona, Ajuntament de Betxi, Betxi reseñado por Bernabé LÓPEZ GARCÍA. pp. 181-184 FERNÁNDEZ-MOLINA (2016), Moroccan foreign policy under Mohammed VI, 1999– 2014. London: Routledge, reseñado por Beatriz TOMÉ ALONSO. pp. 185-188 GARDUÑO GARCÍA, Moisés (2016), Dinámicas de poder y prácticas de resistencia en las revoluciones árabes, México, Casa Chata, reseñado por Ana GONZÁLEZ NAVARRO. pp. 189-192 AHERDAN, ⴰⴰⴰⴰⴰⴰⴰ (2013-2014), Mémoires, Editions du Regard, París (Tres volúmenes : 1942-1961, 1961-1975 y 1975-1991) reseñado por Bernabé LÓPEZ GARCÍA. pp. 193-199 BARREÑADA, Isaías y OJEDA, Raquel (eds.) (2016): Sahara Occidental 40 años después, Madrid: Los Libros de La Catarata reseñado por Nasera CABRERA ABU. pp. 201-205 Foto Portada: Nuno Soares, 2016 REIM Nº 20 (Julio 2016) ISSN: 1887-4460 REIM Nº 20 (Julio 2016) ISSN: 1887-4460 Southern insights on the Orient and Western Orientalisms1 María CARDEIRA DA SILVA [email protected] CRIA (Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia) Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa Recibido 27/11/2016. Revisado y aprobado para publicación 18/12/2016. Para citar este artículo: María Cardeita da Silva (2016), “Southern insights on the Orient and Western Orientalisms” en Revista de estudios internacionales mediterráneos, 21, 1-11. Para acceder a este artículo: http://dx.doi.org/10.15366/reim2016.21.001 Orientalism? This is not another critique of Edward Said’s Orientalism. We know that there is still some space for further discussion on this matter and that there are still people wanting to engage with it, but this is not our concern here. Nevertheless, the term has become inescapable for people like us, researching into and teaching on Arab and Islamic contexts and topics – and even more so when our strategic location is constantly under surveillance in times of Islamophobia and Islamophilia, wary eyes asking if we are with Muslims or against them, or, in a more sophisticated way, with good Muslims or their evil twins, bad Muslims (Mamdani 2004). Strangely, and dangerously, our position regarding Islam – as a monolithic and petrified religion – is presumed to be part of our own academic identity. Said’s book or – as he wrote among other, very insightful things – his metabook – is timeless, both for good and for the wrong reasons. Here, however, we will be using the word ‘Orientalism’ in a narrow sense, referring to the production of humanities and social and cultural sciences on Arab and Islamic contexts and topics and, simply, discarding the nihilistic upshot of some post-Orientalist debates, assuming the political dimension of our researches and outputs. After all, and as Mitchell, appropriately out, Said’s main (and often misunderstood) simple question addressed in Orientalism was ‘How does one know the things that exist?’ and ‘To what extent are the “things that exist” constituted by the knower?’ (Mitchell 2003, referring to 1 This article was funded by FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia within the scope of the Project UID/ANT/04038/2013 REIM Nº 21 (Diciembre 2016) ISSN: 1887-4460 Said, 1978: 5). And even if he was neither the first to address this nor, for sure, the last, we need to state it for the sake of transparency and, ultimately and paradoxically, for the sake of science. Once we acknowledge the political dimension of our production, we may just keep it tamed, inside academy’s walls, or rather, evaluate its potential power. Indeed, this was the conversation topic that inspired what was at first a small group of researchers and subsequently a network instigated by the rise of Islamophobia in southern Europe and then spread to other, more peripheral ones, especially in Latin America. More than debate on Gramsci’s (1971), Bourdieu’s (1984) or Said’s (1996) critiques on intellectuals, our special concern was the prevention of global representations of Islam and political measures tailored and customised elsewhere – that is to say, in traditional,
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