Islamist politics

Antisystemic or post-modern movements

Bibliographic Data

ID3948129
AuthorsAnna Secor (0000-0003-1506-4552, University of Kentucky, corresponding author)
Year2001
Volume6
Issue3
Pages117-134
Publication date2001-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueGeopolitics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1465-0045 • E-ISSN: 1557-3028
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14650040108407731
OpenAlexW1964646147
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited36

Islamist Politics have been cast as a geopolitical threat to ‘the West’, as antisystemic movements, and as part of the cacophony of post‐modern identity politics. This article takes a critical approach to the geopolitics of Islamism and the representational practices that have defined religio‐politics in relation to these various analytical categories. I argue that Islamist movements cannot be fruitfully analysed as primarily oppositional mobilisations. Such movements are not antisystemic as this term is usually understood, although they do pose a challenge to secularist categories. Furthermore, the scripting of social and new social movements works to close down spaces for religious politics, despite the apparent openings created by the post‐modern turn. Finally, I argue that the ways in which knowledge about Islamist politics has been constructed reflects the historical institutionalisation of secularist power in the post‐Enlightenment era. Through this discussion, my aim is to point towards an approach to Islamist politics that draws on the insights of critical geopolitics

Aesthetics · Enlightenment · Epistemology · Geopolitics · Identity politics · Institutionalisation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social movement · Sociology · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence

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