Studying other cultures without repression requires rethinking knowledge and power

Evidence

Perhaps the most important task of all would be to undertake studies in contemporary alternatives to Orientalism, to ask how one can study other cultures and peoples from a libertarian, or a nonrepressive and nonmanipulative, perspective. But then one would have to rethink the whole complex problem of knowledge and power. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 93

Categorization

• DEFINE: Frames the ethical program of the field: a nonrepressive study of other cultures is the open task Orientalism leaves behind.
• SEED: The question of a libertarian, nonrepressive alternative to Orientalism is precisely the program the later Islamophobia readings inherit; a useful orienting frame.
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 93
• XREF: connects to: Scholarly discipline functions as a technology of power that makes hidden material visible — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 341; Rising non-Western cultures relativized the Western episteme; Orientalist knowledge cycles into control over an Orient it activated (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Rising non-Western cultures relativized the Western episteme #complicates (0.72)
• Orientalist knowledge cycles into control over an Orient it activated #expands (0.72)
• Orientalist knowledge-making prepared the ground for territorial and human accumulation #expands (0.72)
• Coupling buried scholarship with disqualified knowledges gives critique its strength #expands (0.70) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 27