Native informers have internalized Orientalist discourse, making expert knowledge unnecessary.

Evidence

What we are witnessing, as a result, is a whole new mode of knowledge production about the Orient (basically, the entire world beyond Western Europe and North America)—a form of knowledge produced under duress. In classical European Orientalism, a whole language, discourse, and ideology were crafted by the imperialists themselves to maintain their domination as natural and inevitable. The native informers have digested and internalized this language and now speak it with the authority of natives. There is no longer any need for “expert knowledge” when you can hear the facts from the horse’s mouth. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 105

Categorization

• XREF: Directly extends Edward Said’s Orientalism—the informer speaking with native authority replaces the Western expert.

Related

• Native informer intellectuals have replaced Orientalists in serving imperial capital (similarity 0.82)
• Said’s Orientalism overshadowed the sociology-of-knowledge tradition it drew on (similarity 0.82)
• The Orientalist expert becomes the representative Oriental himself (similarity 0.82)
• Orientalism functions as a self-enclosed Western text rather than knowledge of an actual Orient. (similarity 0.82)
• Orientalist expertise turns the contemporary Orient from narrative into a sphere of managed complexity (similarity 0.82)
• Oriental knowledge is an instrument of control by divination (similarity 0.81)
• Orientalism is only the visible tip of a larger modern structure. (similarity 0.81)
• Orientalism as colonial knowledge has been replaced by new propaganda (similarity 0.81)
• Early Orientalists codified and domesticated the Orient into a European province of learning. (similarity 0.81)
• Orientalism persists by being internalized by the Orient itself and by new imperialism (similarity 0.80)
• British control of the Orient depended on constantly refined knowledge of it (similarity 0.80)
• For imperial discourse, knowledge of the Orient constitutes power over it (similarity 0.80)
• Orientalism turned scattered testimony into a domesticated, categorical simulacrum of the Orient (similarity 0.80)
• Orientalist self-fashioning turns the traveler into a privileged interpreter of the Orient (similarity 0.80)
• Orientalism’s power lies in its practitioners’ ignorance of what they are doing. (similarity 0.80)