The language of neofeudal corporatism and the war on Iraq
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23740083 |
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| Authors | Penelope Graham (0000-0001-5701-5922, University of Waterloo), Allan Luke (Nanyang Technological University) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Pages | 11-37 |
| Publication date | 2007-06-05 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | The Soft Power of War (Benjamins Current Topics) (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/bct.3.03gra |
| OpenAlex | W2603973861 |
| ISBN | 9789027222336 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
Beginning from recent critical work on globalisation, many critical scholars have extended the analytic vocabulary of ‘advanced’, ‘fast’ and ‘postmodern’ capitalism to explain the geopolitics of the Iraq War. This article offers a counterclaim: that current geopolitical economy can be more usefully characterised as a form of neofeudal corporatism. Using examples drawn from a 300,000 word corpus of public utterances by three political leaders — George W. Bush, Tony Blair, and John Howard — we identify and explicate defining characteristics of this system and how they are manifest in political language about the invasion of Iraq.
Capitalism · Corporatism · Economic history · Epistemology · Geopolitics · Globalization · Linguistics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Postmodernism · Sociology · Vocabulary · History · Law · Philosophy · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East
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| Highly cited | No |
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