The West’s formation cannot be explained without reference to the Rest

Evidence

This chapter reminds us that this formation was also a “global” process. It had crucial “externalist” features—aspects which could not be explained without taking into account the rest of the world, where these processes were not at work and where these kinds of society did not emerge. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 686

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘externalist’ thesis — that Western identity depends on constituting an outside — directly structures Orientalism’s argument and later Islamophobia frameworks.