Theoretical perspectives are applied, not transferred, to new problem-fields.

Evidence

It remains, now, to sketch some of the ways in which this Gramscian perspective could potentially be used to transform and rework some of the existing theories and paradigms in the analysis of racism and related social phenomena. Again, I emphasize that this is not a question of the immediate transfer of Gramsci’s particular ideas to these questions. Rather, it is a matter of bringing a distinctive theoretical perspective to bear on the seminal theoretical and analytic problems which define the field. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 132

Categorization

• SEED: This methodological caution — bring a perspective to bear rather than transfer ideas directly — is exactly the stance the reader should adopt when carrying Hall’s toolkit into the Islamophobia field; a useful framing for a criticism piece.