RT Book
T1 Neoliberalism and neo-jihadism: propaganda and finance in Al Qaeda and Islamic State
A1 Richards, Imogen
LA English
PP Manchester
PB Manchester University Press
YR 2023
ED Paperback published
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1854261045
AB This ground-breaking book examines the political-economic characteristics of twentieth- and early twenty-first-century 'neo-jihadism'. Drawing on Bourdieusian and neo-Marxist ideas, it investigates how the neo-jihadist organisations Al Qaeda and Islamic State engage with the capitalist paradigm of neoliberalism in their anti-capitalist propaganda and quasi-capitalist financial practices. An investigation of documents and discourses reveals interactions between neoliberalism and neo-jihadism characterised by surface-level contradiction, and structural connections that are both dialectical and mutually reinforcing. Neoliberalism here is argued to constitute an underlying 'status quo', while neo-jihadism, as an evolving form of political organisation, is perpetuated as part of this situation. Representing differentiated, unique and exclusive examples of the (r)evolutionary phenomenon of neo-jihadism, Al Qaeda and Islamic State are characteristic of the mutually constitutive nature of 'power and resistance'. Just as resistance movements throughout modern history come to resemble the forms of power they sought to overthrow, so too have Al Qaeda and Islamic State reconstituted the dominant political-economic paradigm of neoliberalism they mobilised in response to.
NO Titelrückseite: "First published 2020. Paperpack published 2023."
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 206-249, Register
CN 320.5570905
SN 9781526171900
K1 Qaida (Organization)
K1 IS (Organization)
K1 Islamic fundamentalism : Economic aspects
K1 Internationaler Terrorismus
K1 Terrorist
K1 Dschihadismus
K1 Militanz
K1 Islam
K1 Propaganda
K1 Finanzierung
K1 Neoliberalismus
K1 Kapitalismus
K1 Naher Osten
K1 Mittlerer Osten
K1 Nordafrika