Thinking from an ex-centric position to Europe shapes how theory gets deployed.

Evidence

I don’t feel that anymore. I feel that these things which have largely occupied my mind in a very different context because … The context hasn’t been, of course, all that different because I have been thinking those things as an outsider over there. So I have not been thinking them inside a European … I have been polemicizing the Eurocentric frontier. So although I have not done that from a specifically Caribbean position, it is the position of those who are ex-centric to the Eurocentric system. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 1032

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to postcolonial theory’s insistence that critique comes from the ex-centric/outside position — the heuristic stance the Islamophobia readings inherit from Hall.
• DEFINE: Offers a working definition of the ‘constitutive outside’ as an intellectual positioning, not just a logical term.