Oriental knowledge is an instrument of control by divination
Evidence
The acquired foreign language is therefore made part of a subtle assault upon populations, just as the study of a foreign region like the Orient is turned into a program for control by divination. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 742
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- XREF: ‘Control by divination’ is a compressible phrase that could recur in the Islamophobia readings as shorthand for epistemic domination.
Related
- Language learning and area study function as covert instruments of population control (similarity 0.91)
- Orientalization results from power and domination, not merely imaginative necessity (similarity 0.86)
- British control of the Orient depended on constantly refined knowledge of it (similarity 0.85)
- Imperial control depended on constantly refined knowledge of the Orient. (similarity 0.85)
- Centuries of Orientalist scholarship have functioned as domination and violence (similarity 0.84)
- Orientalism is a political doctrine arising from Western dominance (similarity 0.84)
- Orientalism turned scattered testimony into a domesticated, categorical simulacrum of the Orient (similarity 0.84)
- Orientalism functions as a self-enclosed Western text rather than knowledge of an actual Orient. (similarity 0.84)
- Western cultural discourse about the Orient is a formidable structure of domination. (similarity 0.84)
- Islamic Orientalists turned alienation into superiority rather than self-understanding (similarity 0.84)
- Orientalist knowledge served to deepen European suzerainty over Asia (similarity 0.84)
- Orientalist training typically converted initial fascination into a debunking project (similarity 0.84)
- Orientalism is studied via its internal consistency, not its correspondence to a real Orient (similarity 0.83)
- Early Orientalists codified and domesticated the Orient into a European province of learning. (similarity 0.83)
- Orientalist scholarship supplied the knowledge base that justified colonial rule (similarity 0.83)