The Paradox of Islamist Politics

The Bourgeois and The islamisT, or, The oTher suBjecTs of PoliTics

There is much theoretical work already underway on the many facets of Badiou’s theory of political subjectivation. however, little attention has been directed hitherto to those figures of the subject which cannot be easily identifiable with a universalist or generic orientation. Beginning with Badiou’s struggles with the subjectivity of the bourgeois in the seminars that make up his Theorie du ...

The Jihad Paradox S . Paul Kapur and Sumit Ganguly Pakistan and Islamist Militancy in South Asia

in Pakistan have repeatedly been involved in major terrorist incidents throughout the world, such as the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington and the 2005 London subway bombings.1 They regularly strike government, coalition, and civilian targets in Afghanistan, hampering efforts to stabilize the country. Also, they frequently target India, threatening to incite an Indo-Pakista...

Poison Gas Proliferation: Paradox, Politics, and Law

Islamist women's Politics and Gender Activism A Case Study from Sudan

This study is about al-Akhwat al-Muslimat— the Islamist women’s group formed by the Sudanese Islamist movement to counter among other things the communist influence among Sudanese women’s associations. This study seeks both to evaluate al-Akhwat political and gender activism and deconstruct the stereotype of Islamist/Muslim women as passive, without agency and perpetuating women’s subordination...

The Paradox of Health Policy: Revealing the True Colours of This ‘Chameleon Concept’; Comment on “The Politics and Analytics of Health Policy”

Health policy has been termed a ‘chameleon concept’, referring to its ability to take on different forms of disciplinarity as well as different roles and functions. This paper extends Paton’s analysis by exploring the paradox of health policy as a field of academic inquiry—sitting across many of the boundaries of social science but also marginalised by them. It situates contemporary approaches ...