Lila Abu LughodThinkers

Discourse is the situated social practices of people speaking, singing, orating, or writing to and about each other.

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An Ethnography of the particular is a mode of writing about 'people going through life agonizing over decisions, making mistakes, trying to make themselves look good, enduring tragedies and personal losses, enjoying others, and finding moments of happiness.

Feminism is projects involving the remaking of women.

The Honor of the weak is Honor of the weak.

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The Muslim woman is engaged in projects for women's rights in terms we may not recognize, and from a vantage whereby they do not see their lives as deficient in terms of rights.

Resistance is a multi-scale form whereby resisting at one level may catch people up at other levels.

Reverse orientalism is an attempt to reverse the power relationship by valorizing the devalued other that, however well-intentioned, leave in place the divide that structured the oppression.

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