In the Shadows of Globalization: Civilizational Crisis, the ‘Global Modern’ and ‘Islamic Nihilism’

M. K. Pasha

DOI:10.1080/14747731003593463

Corpus ID: 144581998

In the Shadows of Globalization: Civilizational Crisis, the ‘Global Modern’ and ‘Islamic Nihilism’

@article{Pasha2010InTS,
  title={In the Shadows of Globalization: Civilizational Crisis, the ‘Global Modern’ and ‘Islamic Nihilism’},
  author={M. K. Pasha},
  journal={Globalizations},
  year={2010},
  volume={7},
  pages={173 - 185}
}

M. K. Pasha
Published 2010
Sociology
Globalizations

This article explores points of contact between neojihadist violence and globalization as part of a strategy to provincialize the inherently presentist character of extant discussions of the current financial crisis. It seeks a broadening of the cultural field in which neojihadist projects, specifically of destruction or self-annihilation, become intelligible. Implicit in this exercise is the nagging suspicion that a focus on civilizational aspects of the general crisis offers greater access to… Expand

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