POLI 341 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Imagined Geographies, Democracy Promotion, Special Pleading
31 Jan 2019
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Lecture 2 / studying the middle east / january 10, 2019. The orient could be seen, it could be studied, it could be managed. Scholarly knowledge as a technology of power: for like all his learned contemporaries, [early 19th-century french orientalist] sacy considered a learned work a positive addition to an edifice that all scholars erected together. Knowledge was essentially the making visible of material, and the aim of the tableau was the construction of a sort of benthamite panopticon. Islam and western scholarly bias: isn"t it true that, following upon all sorts of advances in twentieth-century sociology, anthropology, linguistics and history, american scholars who teach the middle east and. The answer is no. (said: said contends that western scholars of the orient- orientalists- conceal their deep- seated feelings about islam with a carpet of jargon meant to appear objective.
