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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 respect for cultural difference, this order, understood as ‘globalization’, takes on the appearance of inevitability. Though challenges to its singular compulsion and logic assume diverse forms, they are received either as a rejection of modernity,1 that is, particularistic responses to a universal civilization with its centre in the West, or reversionary exercises of a dying order.2 Globalization represents the high drama of world politics; opposition to globalization recedes into the background. Focusing on the Islamic cultural areas, this chapter proposes an alternative to hyperliberal notions of globalization and offers new understandings of resistance to economic globalization.
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Pasha, M.K. (2000). Globalization, Islam and Resistance. In: Gills, B.K. (eds) Globalization and the Politics of Resistance. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230519176_15
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