L'Occidente e gli altri: Storia di una supremazia

by Sophie Bessis, Ada Cinato (translator)

Sophie Bessis book gives a thorough history of colonial and developmentalist thought. Bessis tells the story of the West's relationship with those parts of the rest of the world it came to dominate. Bessis follows this trajectory, from the conquest of the Americas, through the slave trade and the scramble for Africa, the White Man's burden, Manifest Destiny and the growth of "scientific" racism, on to decolonization, the ideology of development, and structural adjustment.

Genres: Nonfiction

361 pages, Paperback

First published March 22, 2001

About the author

Sophie Bessis (Arabic: صوفي بسيس‎) is a Tunisian-born French historian, journalist, researcher, and feminist author. She has written numerous works in French, Spanish, and English on development in the Maghreb and the Arab world, as well as the situation of women. A history scholar and former editor-in-chief of the weekly magazine Jeune Afrique, she is currently a research associate at the Institute for International and Strategic Relations (IRIS) in Paris and Deputy Secretary General of the International Federation of Rights Leagues (FIDH). She has taught the political economy of development at the Department of Political Science at the Sorbonne and in the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO). She is a consultant for UNESCO and UNICEF, has carried out numerous missions in Africa.

Reviews

[Haidar means Lion · Rating 3 out of 5]

Al ser un ensayo, requiere una lectura atenta y lenta para entender todos los puntos que la autora expone a lo largo del libro. Para ser una lectura obligatoria de la asignatura de Historia del mundo árabe e islámico 2, ha captado mi interés y te hace cuestionarte muchos aspectos acerca de los actos cometidos por Occidente sobre "los otros" (África y Asia principalmente) y sus posteriores consecuencias.
La lectura es rápida, ligera y ayuda mucho a completar la lectura. Sin duda lo recomiendo aunque no sea el tipo de lecturas que me atraen.

[Teresa Gómez · Rating 3 out of 5]

un poco denso pero muy esclarecedor

[Under_rubble · Rating 2 out of 5]

Do all zed books suck or just the ones I got on discount? Standard feminist critique of eurocentrism and third-worldism. Originally written in French by a Tunisian Jewish woman, so examples from the french and arabic speaking worlds that I'm less familiar with, but zero analysis of Capital.