Killing “Hajis” in “Indian Country”

Neoliberal Crisis, the Iraq War and the Affective Wages of Anti-Muslim Racism

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11660995
AutoresYousef K Baker (autor de correspondencia)
Año2020
Volumen42
Número1-2
Fecha de publicación2020-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaArab Studies Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0271-3519 • E-ISSN: 2043-6920
EditorialPluto Journals (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.13169/arabstudquar.42.1-2.0046
OpenAlexW3017385893
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas20

Starting in the 1970s neoliberalism began to undermine and chisel away at liberalism, taking aim at the social wage. By the twenty-first century this had resulted in a structural crisis of overaccumulation and a political crisis of legitimacy as social dislocation and precarity became prevalent. The war in Iraq created through war and reconstruction new spaces for accumulation. The invasion and occupation were premised on and worked to maintain anti-Muslim racism in order to scaffold legitimacy for a neoliberal state that is hollowed out of its previous liberal promises. No longer offering a social wage, this becomes the affective wages of neoliberalism, premised on the reification of ontological difference between a civilized, humane and rational West, and a fundamentally illiberal Muslim other. At the same time that liberalism is eroded by neoliberalism, the latter draws from and reinforces the liberal logic of deflection manifest in frontier logics

Legitimacy · Liberalism · Militant · Neoliberalism (international relations · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Precarity · Racism · Sociology · Gender Studies · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Political Economy and Marxism · Race, History, and American Society