Neoliberalism and Neo-Jihadism: Propaganda and Finance in Al Qaeda and Islamic State

By Imogen Richards

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526171902
• ISBN13: 9781526171900
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"