Orientalism expanded from scholarly practice to signify imperialist ideology
Evidence
During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the Orientalists became a more serious quantity, because by then the reaches of imaginative and actual geography had shrunk, because the Oriental-European relationship was determined by an unstoppable European expansion in search of markets, resources, and colonies, and finally, because Orientalism had accomplished its self-metamorphosis from a scholarly discourse to an imperial institution. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 265 (
#expands, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Said defined Orientalism as scholarship tied to governing the Middle East; Orientalism metamorphosed from scholarly discourse into an imperial institution — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 265; Postwar postcolonial critiques transformed Orientalism’s meaning from scholarship into ideology of empire (+10 more)
Broader Connections
- Postwar postcolonial critiques transformed Orientalism’s meaning from scholarship into ideology of empire
#expands(0.95) - Post-1945 critics transformed Orientalism from scholarship into a concept of imperial institution
#expands(0.95) - Orientalism metamorphosed from scholarly discourse into an imperial institution
#expands(0.90) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 265 - Orientalism’s paradigms confirm rather than contest imperial domination
#corroborates(0.85) - Orientalism functioned to produce the West rather than describe the East
#expands(0.80) - Orientalist scholarship is inseparable from imperial power and its orthodox attitudes
#corroborates(0.80) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 292 - Modern Orientalism expanded representational range after the late eighteenth century
#responds-to(0.75) - Orientalism evolved from personal observation into institutional and governmental management
#expands(0.75) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 501 - Orientalism operates as both an academic discipline and a repository of cultural images
#expands(0.75) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 192 - Philology founded Orientalism as a science driven by European imperial acquisition
#corroborates(0.70) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 272