Status Updates From Ethnographic State: France ...

I'm going to have to read faster because SOMEONE RECALLED MY BOOK. Seriously bad form people. Use interlibrary loan for chrissakes.

“According to postcolonial theorists, orientalism did not have a history other than the history of power. In their view there is nothing problematic in the unfolding of orientalist representations, or in their congruence with power. But (an objection arises) if power is everywhere, then it is also nowhere, and one cannot explain the appearance of nationalism." (72)