Epistemic disobedience means to delink from the illusion of the zero point epistemology. It is the beginning of any epistemic decolonial de-linking with all its historical, political and ethical consequences.

The term ‘Eurocentrism’ denotes a world-view which, implicitly or explicitly, posits European history and values as “normal” and superior to others, thereby helping to produce and justify Europe’s dominant position within the global capitalist world system.

Decoloniality, according to Quijano (2007, p. … Hence, there is a need for decoloniality, since it seeks to unmask, unveil and reveal coloniality as an underside of modernity. It seeks to disclose rhetoric on progress, equality, fraternity and liberty (Ndlovu-Gatsheni, 2015) .

When he coined the term “coloniality of power” in 2000 Peruvian sociologist Anibal Quijano did not really invent anything new but came up with a fresh way of understanding a colonial and imperial problem that had haunted thinkers and leaders of the Global South for centuries.

The Palestinian American cultural critic Edward Said was a major figure of postcolonial thought, and his book Orientalism is often credited as its founding text.

Orientalism is a 1978 book by Edward W. Said argues that Orientalism, in the sense of the Western scholarship about the Eastern World, is inextricably tied to the imperialist societies who produced it, which makes much Orientalist work inherently political and servile to power.

Said used the term Orientalism in three interdependent senses: 1) Orientalism as an academic field (while we now have Middle Eastern or China Studies, the term Orientalism was once a similar institutional designation); 2) Orientalism as a style of thought based upon distinctions made between “the Orient” and “the …

Orientalism assumes that Western imperialism, Western psychological projection, “and its harmful political consequences are something that only the West does to the East rather than something all societies do to one another.” Landow also finds Orientalism’s political focus harmful to students of literature since it has …

The Orient is a term for the East, traditionally comprising anything that belongs to the Eastern world, in relation to Europe. It is the antonym of Occident, the Western World. The term oriental is often used to describe objects from the Orient.

The terms Orientalism and Orientalist first took on a markedly political meaning when they were used to refer to those English scholars, bureaucrats, and politicians who, in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, opposed changes in British colonial policy in India that had been brought by the “Anglicists,” who argued ….

Orientalism is a hegemonic discourse for Said: these essentialist assumptions of Western superiority over Eastern cultures serve the ruling world powers and are manifested throughout all forms of discourse including literature, research and conversation both due to, and in order to, perpetuate the power of these …

Rooted in a post-structuralist approach partly inspired by the work of French philosopher Michel Foucault (1926–84), Said coined the notion of Orientalism as a term comprising the whole of European (and later US) ideas, thoughts, cultural depictions, military reports, and claims to superiority over the Middle East, in …

1 or Oriental : of, relating to, or situated in the orient. 2 or Oriental : of, relating to, or coming from Asia and especially eastern Asia oriental food oriental art —now usually considered offensive when used to describe a person.