Orientalism’s meaning shifted after post-war deconolization critiques

Evidence

In the two decades after World War II, several intellectuals launched searing critiques. The key figures were Abdel-Malek in his essay “Orientalism in Crisis” (1963), historian A. L. Tibawi in several essays, Edward Said in essays and in Orientalism (1978), and the sociologist Bryan Turner in Marx and the End of Orientalism (1978). As a result of these interventions, Orientalism came to mean not only the work of the orientalist and a character, style or quality associated with Eastern nations, but also a corporate institution, designed for dealing with the orient, a partial view of Islam, an instrument of Western imperialism, a style of thought, based on an ontological and epistemological distinction between orient and occident, and even an ideology, justifying and accounting for the subjugation of blacks, Palestinian Arabs, women and many other other[s]. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 177 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

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• Postwar postcolonial critiques transformed Orientalism’s meaning from scholarship into ideology of empire (similarity 0.90)
• Post-1945 critics transformed Orientalism from scholarship into a concept of imperial institution (similarity 0.88)
• Orientalism adapted to decolonization by rebranding itself as interdisciplinary area studies (similarity 0.85)
• Decolonization confronted Orientalism with a politically armed Orient it could not recognize (similarity 0.85)
• Oriental studies were reframed as instruments of national postwar policy, not scholarship (similarity 0.84)
• Orientalist ideology preceded material anti-Muslim oppression until post-WWII empire enabled it. (similarity 0.84)
• European Orientalism was normalized into a coherent US scholarly consensus (similarity 0.84)
• Institutional Orientalism, not all Orientalist scholarship, served colonial power (similarity 0.84)
• Orientalism is a corporate discourse that produces the Orient (similarity 0.83)
• Said defined Orientalism as scholarship tied to governing the Middle East (similarity 0.83)
• Orientalism expanded from scholarly practice to signify imperialist ideology (similarity 0.83)
• Postcolonial Orientalism preserved colonialist residues under altered forms of power. (similarity 0.83)
• Orientalism operates as a discourse with material institutional support (similarity 0.83)
• Interwar decolonization struggles made the Orient a challenge to Western spirit and imperium (similarity 0.83)
• Orientalism’s essentialism hides both historical change and the Orientalist’s interests (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• Postwar postcolonial critiques transformed Orientalism’s meaning from scholarship into ideology of empire #corroborates (0.95) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 177
• Post-1945 critics transformed Orientalism from scholarship into a concept of imperial institution #corroborates (0.93)