Colonial scholarship masks imperial agendas behind a veneer of objectivity.

Evidence

It might not be trite to observe how the French Orientalists went about their mission, since their story is merely a crude microcosm of the entire Orientalist project, which at times seems so complex, involved, and serpentine that the underlying forces behind the political, colonialist, and imperialist agenda are masked by a thick “scholarly” cloud, an essential feature of discursive formations. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 238

Categorization

• XREF: Directly echoes Said’s Orientalism thesis and Foucault’s discourse concept — the ‘scholarly cloud’ as a discursive formation.