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Bourdieu, Said, and Inverted Orientalism – The Fire Next Time
An indictment of a soft violence that wears credentials, not uniforms. This essay maps how intellectual gatekeeping—what Bourdieu called the “racism of the intelligentsia”—polices who gets to speak and which suffering counts. It tracks a alliance with inverted Orientalism: the reflex to excuse non-Western authoritarianism as “authentic culture” or anti-imperialism, while disciplining dissidents as inauthentic or “Western.” Drawing on Said and Bourdieu, it names how petitions, panels, and performative solidarity reproduce hierarchies they claim to oppose. The result: silence marketed as care, respect weaponized as censorship, and a demand that the oppressed fit a script before their pain is admitted.
- Bourdieu, Said, and Inverted Orientalism
- Structural Violence in the Islamic Regime’s Labor System
- Rap as Rebellion: Toomaj Salehi’s Battle Against Oppression
- Dawn of the Iranian Renaissance: Critiquing the Religion
- Iran 1979: Between Anti-Imperialism and Socialism
- Middle East and The Fate of Populism: Iran, Palestine and Beyond
- Behind the Bravado: The Human Costs of Mitsotakis’ Falsehoods
- Alongside the Refugees: What Happens in Refugee Camps?
- Political-Islam vs. Palestine