Neoliberalism and neo-jihadism: Propaganda and finance in Al Qaeda and Islamic State
Imogen Richards, "Neoliberalism and neo-jihadism: Propaganda and finance in Al Qaeda and Islamic State"
English | 2020 | pages: 270 | ISBN: 1526171902, 1526143208 | PDF | 10,7 mb
English | 2020 | pages: 270 | ISBN: 1526171902, 1526143208 | PDF | 10,7 mb
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.
Richards reveals interactions between neoliberalism and neo-jihadism characterised by surface-level contradiction, and structural connections that are both dialectical and mutually reinforcing. Neoliberalism here constitutes an underlying ‘status quo’, while neo-jihadism, as an evolving form of political organisation, is perpetuated as part of this situation.
Representing unique and exclusive examples of the (r)evolutionary phenomenon of neo-jihadism, Al Qaeda and Islamic State have reconstituted the dominant political-economic paradigm of neoliberalism they mobilised in response to.
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