Theoretical formulations are constitutively stained by the particular examples they arise from.

Evidence

Such a perfunctory approach to theory is inadequate, Butler argues, be .. cause theoretical formulations often ensue from particular examples and are therefore constitutively stained by that particularity. In order to make a particular theoretical formulation travel across cultural and historical speci.. fi , one needs to rethink the structure of assumptions that underlies a the.. oretical formulation and perform the diffi task of translation and reformu.. lation. — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 1110

Categorization

• XREF: Directly parallels Spivak on epistemic frames and Ahmad’s critique of Western theoretical categories being applied unreflexively to non-Western realities; also speaks to the vault’s strategic-essentialism cluster.