Bantu ontology cannot answer a condition that is political, not ontological.

Evidence

Said understands Orientalism as a discourse in a Foucauldian manner. Orientalism is a particular system of meaning with its own rules, truth claims, and premises, derived from the power that Western nations wielded or aspired to wield over the Orient. Orientalism is part of the power and hegemony exercised by the West over the Orient. This is not to say that Orientalism is a collection of lies, falsehoods, or myths that one can eradicate by doing one’s homework on the “real” Orient. Said insists that Orientalism is too formidable to be dispelled in this way — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 205 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Said held that Orientalism cannot be corrected by factual research because it is power. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 205

Related

• Said held that Orientalism cannot be corrected by factual research because it is power. (similarity 0.90)
• Orientalism undermines the possibility of nonpolitical scholarship. (similarity 0.88)
• Orientalism is a discourse, not a mirror of imperial political power (similarity 0.83)
• Orientalism is a political doctrine arising from Western dominance (similarity 0.82)
• Said’s own Orientalism framework reduced knowledge to a balance-of-power politics (similarity 0.82)
• Orientalism is a political doctrine imposed because the Orient was weaker (similarity 0.81)
• The word ‘Oriental’ alone invoked a fixed, unchallengeable body of knowledge (similarity 0.79)
• Orientalization results from power and domination, not merely imaginative necessity (similarity 0.79)
• The Orient studied by scholars is a political system of representations, not raw reality (similarity 0.79)
• Said’s critique of Orientalism relies on the same modernist assumptions that produced it (similarity 0.79)
• Orientalism’s error is essentializing both Orient and West from above (similarity 0.79)
• Said’s twin claims about Orientalism rest on an unresolved tension. (similarity 0.79)
• Rebutting Orientalism with reverse essentialism would reproduce the same intellectual failure. (similarity 0.78)
• Said borrowed only Foucault’s schematic features, losing his subversive critique (similarity 0.78)
• Orientalist scholarship is inseparable from imperial power and its orthodox attitudes (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Said held that Orientalism cannot be corrected by factual research because it is power. #expands (0.32) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 205