Even neutral scholarship operates within enabling institutions and agencies

Evidence

I suppose that one can imagine at the limit that a specialist in Ottoman or Fatimid archives is an Orientalist in Hourani’s sense, but we are still required to ask where, how, and with what supporting institutions and agencies such studies take place today? Many who wrote after my book appeared asked exactly those questions of even the most recondite and otherworldly scholars, with sometimes devastating results. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 858

Categorization

• XREF: The institutional-conditions question prefigures later biopolitics and bureaucratic-rationality readings on how knowledge production is scaffolded by power. — connects to: Industry groups rent university prestige to launder paid advocacy as academic scholarship — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 573; Financialization scholarship assumes it is a universal, uniform process — Natascha van der Zwan, Making Sense of Financialization, 90; Philanthropic funders controlled the political composition of academic advisory committees — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 756
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 858