Knowledge of colonized peoples produces power to control them

Evidence

With imperial growth and academic enquiry functioning in close collaboration, so new understandings about Islam and the Muslim world began to emerge that were not only premised and established as being rationalised and scholarly, but endorsed by power too. emerging out of understandings that had for centuries considered Islam and Muslims as an enemy and rival, so newly emergent meanings began to be perceived from a more dominant position, one where Europe was becoming increasingly powerful: a power that was inextricably linked to the processes of colonisation and all that this afforded. — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 187 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

I am talking about millions of men in whom fear has been cunningly instilled, who have been taught to have an inferiority complex, to tremble, kneel, despair, and behave like flunkeys. — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 59 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial power endowed scholarly knowledge about Islam with authority — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 187; Colonial rule systematically instills an inferiority complex in the colonized — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 59; Imperial control operates through refined understanding more than force (+6 more)

Related

• Colonial power endowed scholarly knowledge about Islam with authority (similarity 0.87)
• Colonial rule systematically instills an inferiority complex in the colonized (similarity 0.82)
• Imperial growth and academic study of Islam collaborated to legitimise power (similarity 0.82)
• The colonized also wield knowledge-as-power discourses against those they colonize (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial powers justified intervention by portraying colonized subjects as incapable of self-understanding (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial scholarship displaced natives’ own self-understanding with the colonizer’s vision (similarity 0.80)
• Western scholarship on Islam grew from positions of colonial dominance. (similarity 0.79)
• Power asymmetry between colonizer and colonized shapes what the colonizer sees. (similarity 0.79)
• The belief that Muslims had different needs enabled colonial indifference. (similarity 0.79)
• Balfour’s 1910 speech exemplifies the knowledge-power nexus of British empire (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial powers sought to control rather than eradicate Islam (similarity 0.79)
• Imperial knowledge about Islam was colored by administrative anxieties and Christian concerns (similarity 0.79)
• The colonized colonizer outlook emerged fully by the 1870s (similarity 0.78)
• Colonial expansion made alien cultures interpretable in the first place (similarity 0.78)
• Colonisation was not specific to Islam or the Muslim world (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Colonial power endowed scholarly knowledge about Islam with authority #exemplifies (0.85) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 187
• Colonial rule systematically instills an inferiority complex in the colonized #expands (0.78) — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 59