Abstract
The ascendancy of market fundamentalism1 on a world scale and Islamic religious resurgence2 appear to follow opposite structural trajectories informed by competing logics of openness and closure. On this popular construction, unabashedly drawn from earlier modernization claims, globalization is future directed, promising a brave new world of freedom and wealth, of porous boundaries and inclusiveness. Fulfilling the evolutionary, teleological promise of progress and the Enlightenment, globalization underscores the last phase of the unfinished project of modernity (Beck 2000), an irreversible march towards a universal civilization, the world-wide embrace of liberal economic and political rationality (Fukuyama 1992), and the emergence of a ‘flat’ world (Friedman 2005). By contrast, Islamic resurgence is backward looking, a retrograde ideological obstacle to emancipatory movement, more in the nature of a social pathology than a self-subsistent social phenomenon (Lewis 2001), a reaction to Western modernity and its global diffusion (Lewis 1976).
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Pasha, M.K. (2006). Globalization, Cultural Conflicts, and Islamic Resurgence. In: Ghosh, B.N., Guven, H.M. (eds) Globalization and the Third World. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230502567_3
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