Middle East studies itself mediated the re-emergence of Orientalist frameworks

Evidence

Orientalist paradigm, which gave primacy to traditional religious (Islamic) identities. Thus, Middle East studies, which failed to recognize that the politics of difference is socially constructed, mediated, and politicized in specific historical contexts, also appears to have acted as a mediator for the re-emergence of the Orientalist paradigm (Glavanis, 1998). — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3505

Categorization

• QUESTION: This attributes causal agency to an academic field — how does a scholarly discipline ‘act as a mediator’ for ideology, and is the mechanism institutional or intellectual?
• XREF: connects to: Cold War-era editors framed emerging markets through liberal Western lenses — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 167