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ID134816
Title ProperPersian studies and the military in late imperial Russia 1863–1917
Other Title Information State power in the service of knowledge?
LanguageENG
AuthorVolkov, Denis V
Summary / Abstract (Note)
This article pursues the goal of going beyond Saidian notions of Orientalism and Said's assumption of the “complicity of knowledge with power” to reach back to Foucault's initial postulations on the role of institutions and the intellectual in the interplay of power/knowledge relations. The article concentrates on the role of Russian military Oriental studies institutions and Orientologists in the context of discourses (the promotion of Russkoe Delo, the juxtaposition of Russia with the West and the Orient, etc.) that existed in late Imperial Russia and influenced the accumulation and development of scholarly knowledge on the Orient. Therefore, the significant contribution of the military domain to Russian Oriental studies on both the institutional and individual levels are examined from the angle of intra-Russian discourses in the period from the establishment of the Asiatic Section of the General Staff in 1863 up to 1917.
`In' analytical NoteIranian Studies Vol.47, No.6; Nov.2014: p.915-932
Journal SourceIranian Studies 2014-12 47, 6
Key WordsOrientalism ;  Oriental Studies ;  Russian Military ;  Imperial Russia ;  Power-Knowledge Relations ;  Diplomatic Sevrices