Orientalization results from power and domination, not merely imaginative necessity

Evidence

To believe that the Orient was created—or, as I call it, “Orientalized”—and to believe that such things happen simply as a necessity of the imagination, is to be disingenuous. The relationship between Occident and Orient is a relationship of power, of domination, of varying degrees of a complex hegemony, and is quite accurately indicated in the title of K. M. Panikkar’s classic Asia and Western Dominance. The Orient was Orientalized not only because it was discovered to be “Oriental” in all those ways considered commonplace by an average nineteenth-century European, but also because it could be—that is, submitted to being—made Oriental. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 60

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines Orientalization as the process by which the West’s power over the Orient makes it ‘Oriental’ — a production, not a discovery.
• XREF: Connects directly to the Islamophobia module’s core vocabulary: this is the foundational claim that representation is always a power relationship.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 60