Colonial administrator attitudes toward the Orient formed a shared consensus

Evidence

Said’s Orientalism is not a book about the Orient per se. It is a book that analyzes Western discourse about the Orient, including Islam and Arab peoples, and how this discourse relates to Western domination over the Orient in light of the colonial projects of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 206 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Western scholarly discourse about the Orient was entangled with colonial domination — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 206; Shared intellectual authority over the Orient unified otherwise divergent national Orientalisms

Related

• Western scholarly discourse about the Orient was entangled with colonial domination (similarity 0.91)
• Shared intellectual authority over the Orient unified otherwise divergent national Orientalisms (similarity 0.90)
• Western scholars controlled the academic study of the Orient even as late as 1927. (similarity 0.90)
• British control of the Orient depended on constantly refined knowledge of it (similarity 0.88)
• For imperial discourse, knowledge of the Orient constitutes power over it (similarity 0.87)
• The Westerner’s intimate estrangement from the Orient reinforces the Orientalist discourse built on it. (similarity 0.87)
• Western cultural discourse about the Orient is a formidable structure of domination. (similarity 0.87)
• Orient studies served Europe’s needs, not Asia’s reality (similarity 0.86)
• Orientalism fixes the Orient as passive reactor to the West’s self-assigned agency (similarity 0.86)
• Europeans claimed to possess the Orient’s souls beyond territorial power (similarity 0.86)
• All Western writers treated the Orient as fixed, feminine, and needing redemption (similarity 0.86)
• Colonial interests saturated nearly all Western texts on the Orient (similarity 0.86)
• British Oriental imagination was constrained by actual colonial possession (similarity 0.85)
• Colonization was not Islam-specific but Orientalism shaped its distinct form (similarity 0.85)
• Orientalist scholarship supplied the knowledge base that justified colonial rule (similarity 0.85)

Broader Connections

• Western scholarly discourse about the Orient was entangled with colonial domination #corroborates (0.90) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 206
• Shared intellectual authority over the Orient unified otherwise divergent national Orientalisms #expands (0.90)