Said’s survey concentrated on British and French varieties of Orientalism that supported the British and French Empires as commercial enterprises constructed from colonialism.
Evidence
Orientalism (book) (Wikipedia)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: American Orientalism is the living root system that drives Islamophobia. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 168; Edward Said’s Orientalism is considered one of the foundational texts for the study of Islamophobia, describing how Western imperial projects crafted a dehumanizing representation of ‘the Arab’. — Islamophobia in the United States: A Reading Resource Pack; US post-war hegemony repurposed Orientalism and modernization theory to justify empire. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 28 (+4 more)
Related
- Edward Said’s Orientalism is considered one of the foundational texts for the study of Islamophobia, describing how Western imperial projects crafted a dehumanizing representation of ‘the Arab’. (similarity 0.94)
- Said’s Orientalism changed the meaning of ‘Orientalism’ from benevolent human interest in the East to an apparatus of knowledge and writing aligned with western imperial power. (similarity 0.93)
- Orientalism is chiefly a British and French enterprise, later American. (similarity 0.88)
- Said’s Orientalism critique has done more harm than good, delegitimizing the search for knowledge, ignoring Muslim scholars’ positive contributions, and denigrating real threats like Islamist… (similarity 0.88)
- Islamophobia is rooted in imperialism and Orientalism; Western conceptions of Muslims as inferior beings arose when European nations were positioned to dominate once-powerful Muslim empires. (similarity 0.87)
- European Orientalism was normalized into a coherent US scholarly consensus (similarity 0.86)
- Orientalist writings assumed the Orient was inferior and childlike (similarity 0.86)
- Orientalism is a differentiated analysis, not a blanket attack on the West (similarity 0.86)
- Western scholarship constructed the East as savage to justify imperial conquest. (similarity 0.86)
- Said’s Orientalism targets the Middle East, not the Far East. (similarity 0.86)
- Said held that Orientalism cannot be corrected by factual research because it is power. (similarity 0.86)
- Orientalism remains a distinctly racial project anchored in imperial white supremacy (similarity 0.86)
- Orient studies served Europe’s needs, not Asia’s reality (similarity 0.85)
- Even sympathetic Orientalists denied the Orient modernity by casting it as ancient and Semitic. (similarity 0.85)
- Orientalism operates as a racial project serving white supremacist empire. (similarity 0.85)
Broader Connections
- US post-war hegemony repurposed Orientalism and modernization theory to justify empire.
#expands(0.82) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 28 - Nineteenth-century Orientalism essentialized Muslims as intrinsically inferior during colonial expansion.
#expands(0.80) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 201 - Nineteenth-century Orientalism portrayed Islam as a monolithic, fixed, inferior essence.
#expands(0.78) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 194 - Nineteenth-century Orientalism traded Enlightenment universalism for a hierarchy of civilizations.
#expands(0.75) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 193