Edward Said: The Myth of "The Clash of Civilizations” (1998)

Overview

In this important lecture delivered at the University of Massachusetts, Edward Said takes aim at one of the central tenets of recent foreign policy thinking -- that conflicts between different and "clashing civilizations" (Western, Islamic, Confucian) characterize the contemporary world. "The real question is whether in the end we want to work for civilizations that are separate, or whether we should be taking the more integrative, but perhaps more difficult path, which is to see them as making one vast whole, whose exact contours are impossible for any person to grasp, but whose certain existence we can intuit and feel and study." - Edward Said

Year 1998

Studio Media Education Foundation

Director Sut Jhally

Crew Sut Jhally (Director), Steven MacCarthy (Sound), Sanjay Talreja (Editor), Thom Monahan (Sound Post Production Coordinator), Jason Fields (Production Assistant), Magnolia Laurie (Production Assistant)

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Language English