Political Science · Political Theory
What is the term, coined by Edward Said, for a structured set of concepts, assumptions and discursive practices used by Western colonizers to produce, interpret and evaluate knowledge about non-European peoples?
AOrientalism ✓ Correct
BOccidentalism
CImperialism
DHegemony
Correct answer: (A) Orientalism — The term coined by Edward Said for this is Orientalism.
Explanation
★The term coined by Edward Said for this is Orientalism.
★Said published Orientalism in 1978, a founding text of post-colonial studies.
★It describes how the West constructed the East as exotic, backward and inferior.
★This constructed knowledge served and justified colonial domination.
★Occidentalism is the reverse, the way the East stereotypes the West.
★Imperialism is the broader policy of extending control over other lands.
★Hegemony, from Gramsci, is rule through consent and cultural leadership rather than force.
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