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Publication date: 1 October 1982

Yakup Paker

Information technology, a recently coined term, remains susceptible to varying interpretations by different people. The intention, clearly, is to emphasize the emergence of a new…

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Information technology, a recently coined term, remains susceptible to varying interpretations by different people. The intention, clearly, is to emphasize the emergence of a new technological era which manifests itself in so many unrelated disciplines and activities. The French have the tendency of inventing new words for emergent concepts such as ‘informatique’ which is computer science and technology, applications and wider social and economic implications. More recently, they have introduced the term ‘telematique’ to describe the convergence of computers and communications and ‘burotique’ for office automation. The English language seems to have a resistance to invented words. For example, informatics (the equivalent of informatique) has found only limited acceptance. The Council for National Academic Awards (CNAA) has a committee entitled ‘Computing and Informatics’ where the word computing has been retained, presumably, to help those who wonder at the meaning of informatics. The suggested equivalent of ‘télématique’ by some American authors ‘teleputer’ has not caught on, therefore, we have Information Technology instead.

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Aslib Proceedings, vol. 34 no. 10
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0001-253X

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Publication date: 1 April 1982

VINE is produced at least four times a year with the object of providing up‐to‐date news of work being done in the automation of library housekeeping processes, principally in the…

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VINE is produced at least four times a year with the object of providing up‐to‐date news of work being done in the automation of library housekeeping processes, principally in the UK. It is edited and substantially written by the Information Officer for Library Automation based in Southampton University Library and supported by a grant from the British Library Research and Development Dept. Copyright for VINE articles rests with the British Library Board, but opinions expressed in VINE do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the British Library. The subscription for 1982 for VINE is £20 for UK subscribers and £23 for overseas subscribers — the subscription year runs from January to December. The 1983 subscription will be £22 for UK and £25 for overseas — VINE is available in either paper copy or microfiche and all back issues are available on microfiche.

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VINE, vol. 12 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0305-5728

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Publication date: 7 August 2013

Fatma MÜge Göçek

The traditional postcolonial focus on the modern and the European, and pre-modern and non-European empires has marginalized the study of empires like the Ottoman Empire whose…

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The traditional postcolonial focus on the modern and the European, and pre-modern and non-European empires has marginalized the study of empires like the Ottoman Empire whose temporal reign traversed the modern and pre-modern eras, and its geographical land mass covered parts of Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Asia Minor, the Arabian Peninsula, and North Africa. Here, I first place the three postcolonial corollaries of the prioritization of contemporary inequality, the determination of its historical origins, and the target of its eventual elimination in conversation with the Ottoman Empire. I then discuss and articulate the two ensuing criticisms concerning the role of Islam and the fluidity of identities in states and societies. I argue that epistemologically, postcolonial studies criticize the European representations of Islam, but do not take the next step of generating alternate knowledge by engaging in empirical studies of Islamic empires like the Ottoman Empire. Ontologically, postcolonial studies draw strict official and unofficial lines between the European colonizer and the non-European colonized, yet such a clear-cut divide does not hold in the case of the Ottoman Empire where the lines were much more nuanced and identities much more fluid. Still, I argue that contemporary studies on the Ottoman Empire productively intersect with the postcolonial approach in three research areas: the exploration of the agency of imperial subjects; the deconstruction of the imperial center; and the articulation of bases of imperial domination other than the conventional European “rule of colonial difference” strictly predicated on race. I conclude with a call for an analysis of Ottoman postcoloniality in comparison to others such as the German, Austro-Hungarian, Russian, Persian, Chinese, Mughal, and Japanese that negotiated modernity in a similar manner with the explicit intent to generate knowledge not influenced by the Western European historical experience.

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Decentering Social Theory
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ISBN: 978-1-78190-727-6

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