Neoliberalism and Neo-Jihadism: Propaganda and Finance in Al Qaeda and Islamic State (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781526171900)

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.

Author: Imogen Richards
ISBN-10: 1526171902
ISBN-13: 9781526171900
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/27/2023
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.57d