The West and the Rest are mutable historical and linguistic constructs, not fixed entities.

Evidence

A word of warning must be entered here. In order to bring out the distinctiveness of this “West and the Rest” discourse, I have been obliged to be selective and to simplify my representation of the West, and you should bear this in mind as you read. Terms like “the West” and “the Rest” are historical and linguistic constructs whose meanings change over time. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 522

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes that West/Rest are discursive constructs whose meanings shift, a foundational anti-essentialist premise.
• XREF: Echoes the constructivist premise carried through all Foucauldian discourse analysis in the Islamophobia module. — connects to: Spatial categories like East and West are real yet historically constructed, not natural. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1590