Neoliberalism and Neo-Jihadism : Propaganda and Finance in Al Qaeda and Islamic State (Manchester University Press)

Richards, Imogen

Manchester University Press（2023/06発売）

Manchester University Press（2023/06発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 272 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781526171900
• DDC分類 320.5570905

Full Description

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.

Contents

Introduction
1 Neoliberalism, Bourdieu, and neo-Marxism
2 Neoliberalism in action
3 Al Qaeda's political-economic propaganda
4 Islamic State's political-economic propaganda
5 Al Qaeda's financial practices
6 Islamic State's financial practices
Conclusion
Index