{"id":45,"date":"2010-02-27T14:48:47","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T19:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog279\/2010\/02\/27\/tradition-tradition\/"},"modified":"2010-02-27T14:52:57","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T19:52:57","slug":"tradition-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog279\/2010\/02\/27\/tradition-tradition\/","title":{"rendered":"Tradition! &#8230; tradition?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his recent text, <strong>&#8220;The Modern Middle East&#8221;,<\/strong> Mehran Kamrava states:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;It is often suggested in the Western press that Middle Easterners either must side with the forces of growth and progress (rashly equated with westernization) or remain in the clutches of the dead hand of tradition.\u00a0 This view is based on a notion of non-Western cultures as static and unreflective, stifled by authoritarian doctrines and unchanging consensus on social, moral, and intellectual issues.\u00a0 The hand of tradition, however, turns out to be more animated (and more manipulated) than one might suppose.\u00a0 Even in the most stable societies, cultural consensus is partially offset by ambiguities within the traditions and by diverse strategies of interpretation.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What examples can you think of (from readings, film, or class discussions) that break down notions of tradition?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his recent text, &#8220;The Modern Middle East&#8221;, Mehran Kamrava states: &#8220;It is often suggested in the Western press that Middle Easterners either must side with the forces of growth and progress (rashly equated with westernization) or remain in the clutches of the dead hand of tradition.\u00a0 This view is based on a notion of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog279\/2010\/02\/27\/tradition-tradition\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tradition! &#8230; tradition?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-required-response-questions"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog279\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog279\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog279\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog279\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog279\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog279\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog279\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog279\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog279\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}