Mustapha Kamal Pasha
Biographic Data
| ID | 386434 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mustapha Kamal Pasha |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mustapha Kamal |
| FAMILY NAME | Pasha |
| SIGNATURE | PASHA M K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aberystwyth University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 135 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Legacies and futures for Global South research
A conversation with Dr. Ashis Nandy
Political Theology and Sovereignty: Sayyid Qutb in Our Times
After the deluge: New Universalism and Postcolonial Difference
This article probes the promises and anomalies of a new universalism proposed by Dipesh Chakrabarty as an apparent retort to the challenge of the Anthropocene. Revising established understandings of temporality and human agency imagined within modernity, the new universalism depicts a radically different horizon shaped by interconnections produced by the subsumption of human history into natural history. A key element of Chakrabarty's new univers…
How can we end poverty?
Poverty consolidates the material divide between us and them, an ideational divide. In the fast age of digital communication and connectivity, the end of poverty has become the truly 'global' public policy issue of our times, eclipsing global warming, human trafficking or illegal drugs. Moderate poverty generally refers to conditions of life in which basic needs are met, but just barely. Relative poverty is generally construed as a household inco…
Political theology and sovereignty: Sayyid Qutb in our times
Islam and International Relations: Fractured Worlds
Islam and International Relations: Fractured Worlds reframes and radically disrupts perceived understanding of the nature and location of Islamic impulses in international relations. This collection of innovative essays written by Mustapha Kamal Pasha presents an alternative reading of contestation and entanglement between Islam and modernity. Wide-ranging in scope, the volume illustrates the limits of Western political imagination, especially it…
Decolonizing The Anarchical Society
Are claims for redistributive justice reconcilable with the demands for order? This question remains as significant today as it was articulated in The Anarchical Society forty years ago. This essay explores its aporetic nature against the horizon afforded by spectrality—the ghostlike presence/absence of justice in Bull’s account of the international. In Bull’s case, it is the haunting presence/absence of coloniality (embedded in his concerns for …
Religion and the Fabrication of Race
This article questions recent critiques of Eurocentrism for silencing religion in favour of either culture or race. Quite ironically, these critiques draw from a Eurocentric spatio-temporal horizon embedded in Enlightenment thinking. International practice increasingly manifests the confluence of religion and race and the difficulty of separating the two in explaining processes of differentiation and exclusion. Without adequate recognition of rel…
Out from Underdevelopment Revisited: Changing Global Structures and the Remaking of the Third World
Nihilism and the Otherness of Islam
The ‘death of God’ remains a recognisable frame to approach Western cultural malaise captured in its nihilism. Removed from this spatio-temporal horizon, however, claims of fin de siècle appear partial, provincial, and extraneous. For worlds ‘outside’ the West, the idea of the death of God is an absurdity, excessive and irrelevant. Viewed from relativist positionality, God’s demise presents as a strictly Western problem. On the other hand, nihili…
Islam and the postsecular
The language of the ‘postsecular’ acknowledges the enduring presence of faith in politics, repudiating secularisation theses claiming diminution or privatisation of religion in social and political life. In cognitive and experiential worlds, those presumably unfettered by these conceptions (for example, the Islamic Cultural Zones or ICZs), the postsecular presents a different order of challenge and possibility. The term ICZs refers to Muslim majo…
Global Crises and the Crisis of Global Leadership
This groundbreaking collection on global leadership features innovative and critical perspectives by scholars from international relations, political economy, medicine, law and philosophy, from North and South. The book's novel theorization of global leadership is situated historically within the classics of modern political theory and sociology, relating it to the crisis of global capitalism today. Contributors reflect on the multiple political,…
Islam, nihilism and liberal secularity
Western Nihilism and Dialogue: Prelude to an Uncanny Encounter in International Relations
Recognition of other cultural mappings and sensitivities can facilitate meaningful dialogue in International Relations. On this assurance, the naturalised history of the discipline becomes more susceptible to rival accounts that materialise in other locales. Limits to dialogue, however, are internal to International Relations, a product of particular histories and settlements. This article probes some of the limits imposed by the spectres of nihi…
In the Shadows of Globalization: Civilizational Crisis, the ‘Global Modern’ and ‘Islamic Nihilism’
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 aspec…
Disciplining Foucault: Disciplining Foucault
Journal Article Disciplining Foucault Get access Mustapha Kamal Pasha Mustapha Kamal Pasha University of Aberdeen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Political Sociology, Volume 4, Issue 2, June 2010, Pages 213–215, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-5687.2010.00100_8.x Published: 07 June 2010
Collateral Damage: Afghanistan
Imperial wars rarely follow linear passages to termination. The expectation that unwarrantable cost, fatigue, defeat, or futility would write their epilogue is readily overpowered by new imagined perils elsewhere. Wars to civilize the barbarian are interminable; there is no dearth of places resisting love of humanity, earthly salvation, democracy, or freedom. The war in Afghanistan has been advertised as an imperial crusade—legitimate, moral, and…
Global exception and Islamic exceptionalism
Islam, ‘Soft’ Orientalism and Hegemony: A Gramscian Rereading
The neo‐Gramscian framework offers one of the more innovative contributions to a discipline long embedded in the self‐same verities of behaviouralism, positivism and neo‐Realism. As with conventional wisdom, however, neo‐Gramscians reproduce either assumptions of liberal neutrality or cultural thickness in relation to the ‘peripheral zones’ of the global political economy. These tendencies produce a variant that can be likened to ‘soft Orientalis…
Gods, Guns, and Globalization: Religious Radicalism and International Political Economy
Is it accurate to equate "fundamentalism" with antimodernism? What explains the growing importance of religious activists in world politics? Guns, Gods, and Globalization explores the multifaceted phenomenon of religious resurgence, ranging from the Christian right in the U.S. to ethnonationalist movements across North Africa and Asia. The authors' focus on the complex relationship between religious revivalism and globalization results in a nuanc…
Fractured Worlds: Islam, Identity, and International Relations
Knowledge/Power/Inequality
Journal Article Knowledge/Power/Inequality Get access Mustapha Kamal Pasha, Mustapha Kamal Pasha American University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Craig N. Murphy Craig N. Murphy Wellesley College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Review, Volume 4, Issue 2, Summer 2002, Pages 1–6, https://doi.org/10.1111/1521-9488.00251 Published: 13 February 2…
Predatory Globalization and Democracy in the Islamic World
The rise of Islamic activism worldwide, including the appearance of illiberal politics in Islamic cultural areas (ICAs), is usually seen as a reaction to globalizing modernization. Based on the assumption of an elective affinity between Western cultural assets and liberal democracy, most analysts neglect to see globalization, particularly, in its predatory form, as a constitutive condition of Islamism. Accentuating the cultural divide within ICAs…
Globalization, Islam and Resistance
The ascendancy of hyperliberalism on a world scale with emphases on post-Fordist strategies of flexible accumulation, the retrenchment of the state in the social economy, and the marginalization of large populations in the global political economy, gives the present phase of capitalism a distinct flavour as the apotheosis of a unified materialist order. Imbued with mysterious and unbounded powers, homogenizing in scope and content, and with scant…
Civil society and democracy in the third world: Ambiguities and historical possibilities
Elusive Paradise: The Promise and Peril of Global Civil Society
The field of international relations has become turbulent,1 at least as measured by the proliferation of post-Cold War, perhaps post-Westphalian, reimaginings of global political space. One stream of such imaginings promises the rise of a new architecture of global politics shaped by a growing worldwide consciousness. The sources and compulsions of these global visions diverge radically across a fairly wide spectrum. At the risk of simplifying, p…
Security as Hegemony
Predatory Globalization and Democracy in the Islamic World
The rise of Islamic activism worldwide, including the appearance of illiberal politics in Islamic cultural areas (ICAs), is usually seen as a reaction to globalizing modernization. Based on the assumption of an elective affinity between Western cultural assets and liberal democracy, most analysts neglect to see globalization, particularly, in its predatory form, as a constitutive condition of Islamism. Accentuating the cultural divide within ICAs…
Western Nihilism and Dialogue: Prelude to an Uncanny Encounter in International Relations
Recognition of other cultural mappings and sensitivities can facilitate meaningful dialogue in International Relations. On this assurance, the naturalised history of the discipline becomes more susceptible to rival accounts that materialise in other locales. Limits to dialogue, however, are internal to International Relations, a product of particular histories and settlements. This article probes some of the limits imposed by the spectres of nihi…
Religion and the Fabrication of Race
This article questions recent critiques of Eurocentrism for silencing religion in favour of either culture or race. Quite ironically, these critiques draw from a Eurocentric spatio-temporal horizon embedded in Enlightenment thinking. International practice increasingly manifests the confluence of religion and race and the difficulty of separating the two in explaining processes of differentiation and exclusion. Without adequate recognition of rel…
Fractured Worlds: Islam, Identity, and International Relations
Islam, ‘Soft’ Orientalism and Hegemony: A Gramscian Rereading
The neo‐Gramscian framework offers one of the more innovative contributions to a discipline long embedded in the self‐same verities of behaviouralism, positivism and neo‐Realism. As with conventional wisdom, however, neo‐Gramscians reproduce either assumptions of liberal neutrality or cultural thickness in relation to the ‘peripheral zones’ of the global political economy. These tendencies produce a variant that can be likened to ‘soft Orientalis…
Nihilism and the Otherness of Islam
The ‘death of God’ remains a recognisable frame to approach Western cultural malaise captured in its nihilism. Removed from this spatio-temporal horizon, however, claims of fin de siècle appear partial, provincial, and extraneous. For worlds ‘outside’ the West, the idea of the death of God is an absurdity, excessive and irrelevant. Viewed from relativist positionality, God’s demise presents as a strictly Western problem. On the other hand, nihili…
Global exception and Islamic exceptionalism
After the deluge: New Universalism and Postcolonial Difference
This article probes the promises and anomalies of a new universalism proposed by Dipesh Chakrabarty as an apparent retort to the challenge of the Anthropocene. Revising established understandings of temporality and human agency imagined within modernity, the new universalism depicts a radically different horizon shaped by interconnections produced by the subsumption of human history into natural history. A key element of Chakrabarty's new univers…
Islam, nihilism and liberal secularity
Globalisation and Poverty in South Asia
Political theology and sovereignty: Sayyid Qutb in our times
In the Shadows of Globalization: Civilizational Crisis, the ‘Global Modern’ and ‘Islamic Nihilism’
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 aspec…
Disciplining Foucault: Disciplining Foucault
Journal Article Disciplining Foucault Get access Mustapha Kamal Pasha Mustapha Kamal Pasha University of Aberdeen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Political Sociology, Volume 4, Issue 2, June 2010, Pages 213–215, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-5687.2010.00100_8.x Published: 07 June 2010
Legacies and futures for Global South research
Islam and the postsecular
The language of the ‘postsecular’ acknowledges the enduring presence of faith in politics, repudiating secularisation theses claiming diminution or privatisation of religion in social and political life. In cognitive and experiential worlds, those presumably unfettered by these conceptions (for example, the Islamic Cultural Zones or ICZs), the postsecular presents a different order of challenge and possibility. The term ICZs refers to Muslim majo…
Liberalization, State Patronage, and the "New Inequality" in South Asia
This article sketches some of the more discernible effects of neoliberalism on South Asia's political economy with an emphasis especially on the ambivalent status of neoliberalism in the context of state patronage. The first part of the article examines the rise of a new convergence amongst state managers and social groups over the desirability of neoliberal reforms. Following this analysis of the emerging convergence around neoliberal reforms an…
Civil society and democracy in the third world: Ambiguities and historical possibilities
What Future for the NIC Model? Globalisation and the Remaking of the Third World
Globalisation and Poverty in South Asia
Security as Hegemony
Out from Underdevelopment Revisited
Development may be best understood in terms of the interplay among capital accumulation, the state, and class. Subject to globalizing structures, classes, in turn, are examined in light of their inter
Sources of Received Ideas about the Third World
The Acholi, a Nilotic people in northern Uganda, are wedged in a stretch between Zaire, Sudan and Kenya. The standard maps do not identify their locale as Acholi-land. I (JHM) first encountered them when a fellow student invited me to his home, a mud-thatched hut, one among many surrounded by a makeshift thicket fence erected to keep out intruders, human or otherwise. Afterwards I discovered that the plight of the Acholi is told in a moving tale,…
Innovation and Transformation in International Studies
This book explores the nature of, and conditions for, theoretical innovation in international studies. Highlighting classic and new research problems, this collection of critically minded, original essays pushes international relations scholarship in uncharted directions. Bridging social theory and international relations theory, it searches for sources of intellectual innovation in the everyday lives of ordinary people. The seventeen contributor…
Ibn Khaldun and world order
The world of the things that come into being as the result of action, materialises through thinking.(Ibn Khaldun, 1958, II: 413)
Elusive Paradise: The Promise and Peril of Global Civil Society
The field of international relations has become turbulent,1 at least as measured by the proliferation of post-Cold War, perhaps post-Westphalian, reimaginings of global political space. One stream of such imaginings promises the rise of a new architecture of global politics shaped by a growing worldwide consciousness. The sources and compulsions of these global visions diverge radically across a fairly wide spectrum. At the risk of simplifying, p…
Globalization, Islam and Resistance
The ascendancy of hyperliberalism on a world scale with emphases on post-Fordist strategies of flexible accumulation, the retrenchment of the state in the social economy, and the marginalization of large populations in the global political economy, gives the present phase of capitalism a distinct flavour as the apotheosis of a unified materialist order. Imbued with mysterious and unbounded powers, homogenizing in scope and content, and with scant…
The 2001 Convention Theme and Call for Proposals
Liberalization, State Patronage, and the "New Inequality" in South Asia
This article sketches some of the more discernible effects of neoliberalism on South Asia's political economy with an emphasis especially on the ambivalent status of neoliberalism in the context of state patronage. The first part of the article examines the rise of a new convergence amongst state managers and social groups over the desirability of neoliberal reforms. Following this analysis of the emerging convergence around neoliberal reforms an…
Knowledge/Power/Inequality
Journal Article Knowledge/Power/Inequality Get access Mustapha Kamal Pasha, Mustapha Kamal Pasha American University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Craig N. Murphy Craig N. Murphy Wellesley College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Review, Volume 4, Issue 2, Summer 2002, Pages 1–6, https://doi.org/10.1111/1521-9488.00251 Published: 13 February 2…
Predatory Globalization and Democracy in the Islamic World
The rise of Islamic activism worldwide, including the appearance of illiberal politics in Islamic cultural areas (ICAs), is usually seen as a reaction to globalizing modernization. Based on the assumption of an elective affinity between Western cultural assets and liberal democracy, most analysts neglect to see globalization, particularly, in its predatory form, as a constitutive condition of Islamism. Accentuating the cultural divide within ICAs…
Fractured Worlds: Islam, Identity, and International Relations
Gods, Guns, and Globalization: Religious Radicalism and International Political Economy
Is it accurate to equate "fundamentalism" with antimodernism? What explains the growing importance of religious activists in world politics? Guns, Gods, and Globalization explores the multifaceted phenomenon of religious resurgence, ranging from the Christian right in the U.S. to ethnonationalist movements across North Africa and Asia. The authors' focus on the complex relationship between religious revivalism and globalization results in a nuanc…
Islam, ‘Soft’ Orientalism and Hegemony: A Gramscian Rereading
The neo‐Gramscian framework offers one of the more innovative contributions to a discipline long embedded in the self‐same verities of behaviouralism, positivism and neo‐Realism. As with conventional wisdom, however, neo‐Gramscians reproduce either assumptions of liberal neutrality or cultural thickness in relation to the ‘peripheral zones’ of the global political economy. These tendencies produce a variant that can be likened to ‘soft Orientalis…
Collateral Damage: Afghanistan
Imperial wars rarely follow linear passages to termination. The expectation that unwarrantable cost, fatigue, defeat, or futility would write their epilogue is readily overpowered by new imagined perils elsewhere. Wars to civilize the barbarian are interminable; there is no dearth of places resisting love of humanity, earthly salvation, democracy, or freedom. The war in Afghanistan has been advertised as an imperial crusade—legitimate, moral, and…
Global exception and Islamic exceptionalism
In the Shadows of Globalization: Civilizational Crisis, the ‘Global Modern’ and ‘Islamic Nihilism’
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 aspec…
Disciplining Foucault: Disciplining Foucault
Journal Article Disciplining Foucault Get access Mustapha Kamal Pasha Mustapha Kamal Pasha University of Aberdeen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Political Sociology, Volume 4, Issue 2, June 2010, Pages 213–215, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-5687.2010.00100_8.x Published: 07 June 2010
Global Crises and the Crisis of Global Leadership
This groundbreaking collection on global leadership features innovative and critical perspectives by scholars from international relations, political economy, medicine, law and philosophy, from North and South. The book's novel theorization of global leadership is situated historically within the classics of modern political theory and sociology, relating it to the crisis of global capitalism today. Contributors reflect on the multiple political,…
Islam, nihilism and liberal secularity
Western Nihilism and Dialogue: Prelude to an Uncanny Encounter in International Relations
Recognition of other cultural mappings and sensitivities can facilitate meaningful dialogue in International Relations. On this assurance, the naturalised history of the discipline becomes more susceptible to rival accounts that materialise in other locales. Limits to dialogue, however, are internal to International Relations, a product of particular histories and settlements. This article probes some of the limits imposed by the spectres of nihi…
Islam and the postsecular
The language of the ‘postsecular’ acknowledges the enduring presence of faith in politics, repudiating secularisation theses claiming diminution or privatisation of religion in social and political life. In cognitive and experiential worlds, those presumably unfettered by these conceptions (for example, the Islamic Cultural Zones or ICZs), the postsecular presents a different order of challenge and possibility. The term ICZs refers to Muslim majo…
Political science (30 works) · Law (24 works) · Sociology (24 works) · Politics (19 works) · Philosophy (17 works) · Law (15 works) · Economics (13 works) · Islamic Studies and History (12 works) · Epistemology (10 works) · Philosophy (10 works)