Orientalism in the Mirror

The Sexual Politics of Anti-Westernism

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2352166
AutoresMelinda Cooper (0000-0002-1798-4320, Department of Sociology at the University of Sydney, Australia, Centre for Biomedicine and Society at Kings College, London)
Año2008
Volumen25
Número6
Páginas25-49
Fecha de publicación2008-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaTheory Culture & Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0263-2764 • E-ISSN: 1460-3616
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0263276408095543
OpenAlexW2149052571
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas20

This article reflects on the convergence of revolutionary anti-capitalism and moral fundamentalism in the contemporary Islamic revival. It is concerned more generally with the recurrent appeal to fundamental value - of a sexual, genealogical or economic kind - in the history of anti-imperial and anti-capitalist movements. Exploring the tradition of Islamist philosophies of finance, the article suggests that Islamic political theology is unique in its ability to separate absolute law from territory ( pace Schmitt). Transgressing the boundaries of nation-state postcolonialism, it thereby relocates absolute value, and hence absolute prohibition, in the realm of the sexual and the divine

Absolute (philosophy · Appeal · Capitalism · Epistemology · Fundamentalism · Islam · Islamic fundamentalism · Muslim world · Orientalism · Political science · Political theology · Politics · Postcolonialism (international relations · Realm · Sociology · State (computer science · Theology · Value (mathematics · Gender Studies · Islamic Finance and Banking Studies · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Marriage and Sexual Relationships · Philosophy