Orientalist academic disciplines and the colonial corporation share one structure of thought

Evidence

The point I am trying to make is that there exists a direct structural link between these academic disciplines and the corporation, a largely colonialist entity that has been well known to engage in the exploitation of foreign (= “Oriental”) labor, modern economic forms of human enslavement nearly everywhere, the virtual control of the host country’s laws and public policies, and, no less important, the destruction of natural habitats. All of these forms of abuse as well as many others belong to the same structure of thought and the same general ethos and worldview that produced science with its destructive effects. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 367

Categorization

• XREF: Resonates with Said’s core thesis in Orientalism about knowledge and power sharing a genealogy, and with the reviewer’s prior reading on how institutions encode worldviews. — connects to: Cultural Orientalism was admiring and varied, unlike institutional Orientalism that served colonialism.