Political Science · Comparative Political Analysis
Edward Said is famous for his theory of:
AOrientalism ✓ Correct
BDependency theory
CWorld System theory
DRealist theory
Correct answer: (A) Orientalism — Edward Said is famous for his theory of Orientalism, so the answer is Orientalism.
Explanation
★Edward Said is famous for his theory of Orientalism, so the answer is Orientalism.
★In his 1978 book Orientalism he studied how the West imagined the East.
★He argued that Western scholarship constructed a distorted image of the Orient.
★The East was portrayed as exotic, backward and in need of Western rule.
★This knowledge served and justified colonial domination.
★So Orientalism is Said's most influential theory.
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