Orientalist ideas can circulate without imperial power structures

Evidence

As a judge of the Orient, the modern Orientalist does not, as he believes and even says, stand apart from it objectively. His human detachment, whose sign is the absence of sympathy covered by professional knowledge, is weighted heavily with all the orthodox attitudes, perspectives, and moods of Orientalism that I have been describing. His Orient is not the Orient as it is, but the Orient as it has been Orientalized. An unbroken arc of knowledge and power connects the European or Western statesman and the Western Orientalists; it forms the rim of the stage containing the Orient. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 292 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

This false position hides historical change. Even more important, from my standpoint, it hides the interests of the Orientalist. Those, despite attempts to draw subtle distinctions between Orientalism as an innocent scholarly endeavor and Orientalism as an accomplice to empire, can never unilaterally be detached from the general imperial context that begins its modern global phase with Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt in 1798. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 840 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Orientalist scholarship cannot be detached from its imperial context — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 840; Orientalism’s paradigms confirm rather than contest imperial domination; Orientalism is a discourse, not a mirror of imperial political power — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 72 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Orientalist scholarship cannot be detached from its imperial context #contradicts (0.95) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 840
• Orientalist scholarship is inseparable from imperial power and its orthodox attitudes #contradicts (0.95) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 292
• Orientalism’s paradigms confirm rather than contest imperial domination #contradicts (0.90)
• Orientalism is a discourse, not a mirror of imperial political power #corroborates (0.88) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 72
• Generalizing knowledge-power critique would erase Orientalism’s special status #qualifies (0.85) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 325
• Key Orientalist scholarship shows no detectable political agenda even unconscious #corroborates (0.80) — Robert Irwin, For Lust of Knowing, 545