Orientalism in the Mirror
The Sexual Politics of Anti-Westernism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2352166 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Melinda Cooper (0000-0002-1798-4320, Department of Sociology at the University of Sydney, Australia, Centre for Biomedicine and Society at Kings College, London) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 25-49 |
| Publication date | 2008-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theory Culture & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-2764 • E-ISSN: 1460-3616 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0263276408095543 |
| OpenAlex | W2149052571 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 20 |
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
Mapping the concept of fundamentalism
Family Debilitation
Children's agency and Islam
Children's projected political preference
Disenchanting secularism (or the cultivation of soul) as pedagogy in resistance to populist racism and colonial structures in the academy
Children's religious agency
The Politics of Postsecular Feminism
Saba Mahmood and Anthropological Feminism After Virtue
Islam and the Moral Economy
Sayyid Quṭb and Islamic Activism
Regulating Aversion
An Interview with Mahfoud Bennoune
Capitalism and Christianity, American Style
Foucault and the Iranian Revolution
Politics of Piety
Genealogies of Religion
Enemy in the Mirror
Appropriation/Distribution/Production
Sayyid Qutb and Islamic Activism. A Translation and Critical Analysis of Social Justice in Islam
Poetics of relation
Algerian Women in the Liberation Struggle and the Civil War
Frontlines and Interstices in the Global War on Terror
God's Country
Genealogies of Religion
Mutual Life, Limited
Embracing death
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,53 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2024 (14) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |