Modern colonialism and genocide are structurally linked through knowledge

Evidence

Having offered a general typology of academia in terms of central and peripheral domains, I will argue that the academic units of the central domain are connected, however unconsciously, in structural and structured ways to the colonialist project of Western modernity (now proliferating to the rest of the world). I then contend that there exists an equally structured relationship between modern colonialism and genocide, an argument that, in the final analysis, amounts to an explication of the relationship between knowledge, including its paramount academic variety, and genocide. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 50

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to earlier chapters on epistemic violence in the soundscape/colonial literature, and broadly to scholarship linking knowledge production to mass violence. — connects to: Colonialism produced knowledge and truth, not just ideology, to subjugate. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 886
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 50