The Universal Enemy

Li, Darryl

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“…The quest for Africa's unity draws inspiration from the well-established history of contemporary regionalism underpinned by neoliberal economic ideology and its success in Western Europe (Wikan, 2015). The reconstruction of Europe in the post-World War II era into a prosperous European Union-with shared cultural ideas and values, free movement without internal frontiers, and binding institutional security, legal, and economic setups (European Union, 2006;Li, 2020)-is viewed as a key inspiration.…”

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Region‐centric infrastructure policies and the regional politics surrounding Chinese railway projects: Insights from the East Africa region

Otele,

Guguyu

2023

Politics & Policy

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The African Union and regional economic communities have identified infrastructure development, not least the enhancement of railway systems, as a key priority to advance regional and continental integration policy. The keen interest of Chinese actors in Africa's railway sector is largely welcomed as conducive to increasing infrastructural connectivity within and between Africa's sub‐regions. This article argues that regional railway projects must be assessed against regional political contexts, which crucially co‐determine the degree of coordination and cooperation in the context of region‐centric infrastructure policies. Competing national political agendas, exacerbated mostly by China's bilateral engagement with East African Community member states, has intensified East Africa's infrastructure race. This has resulted in a poorly coordinated standard‐gauge railway project along the East African Northern Corridor; consequently, its economic viability is in doubt.Related ArticlesIkeanyibe, Okechukwu Marcellus. 2018. “Bureaucratic Politics and the Implementation of Liberalization Reforms in Nigeria: A Study of the Unbundling and Reorganization of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation.” Politics & Policy 46(2): 263–94. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12249.Iwuoha, Victor Chidubem, Nneka Ifeoma Okafor, and Emmanuel Ifeadike. 2022. “State Regulation of Nigeria's Maritime Ports: Exploring the Impact of Port Concession on Both the Regulator and the Operators.” Politics & Policy 50(5): 1032–52. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12495.McNamara, Madeleine W., John C. Morris, and Martin Mayer. 2014. “Expanding the Universe of Multi‐Organizational Arrangements: Contingent Coordination and the Deepwater Horizon Transportation Challenges.” Politics & Policy 42(3): 346–68. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12073.

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Region‐centric infrastructure policies and the regional politics surrounding Chinese railway projects: Insights from the East Africa region

Otele,

Guguyu

2023

Politics & Policy

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“…16 Nātiq-Nūrī, Khāṭirāt-i, 189-90; Ākhūndī, "Khāṭirātī-i"; E. Lob, Iran's Reconstruction, 59. 17 E. Lob,Iran's Reconstruction,[81][82][83][84][85][86][87][88][89][90][91] Khalq or FEK), and the MEK. 18 Though part of the same revolutionary coalition that had overthrown the Shāh, the Tūdih Party, the FEK, and the MEK were excluded from the provisional government by the FMI and the IRP -both of which opposed communism, Marxism, and radical leftism.…”

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“…The fragmentation of CJ members and volunteers revealed the challenges of managing and maintaining jihād-based solidarity between individuals of different regions, ethnicities, classes, competencies, orientations, and ideologies. 86 This fragmentation also revolved around a binary between the members and volunteers who had participated in the organization out of sincere and pure intentions for the sake of divine commandments, spiritual rewards, and eternal salvation ("holy struggle"), versus the individuals who did so only for public goals (defeating the enemy and conquering territory) and worldly pursuits such as glory, plunder, and power ("holy war") -however mythological, polemical, arbitrary or unfair the distinction may have been. 87…”

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Mobilizing and Framing Construction Jihād and Islamic Development in Revolutionary Iran

Lob

2022

The Muslim World

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Based on extensive fieldwork and original research in Iran, this article examines the establishment and evolution of the Islamic Republic's rural reconstruction and development organization, Construction Jihād (CJ), during the Iranian Revolution and the Iran‐Iraq War. By invoking populist and pious concepts, newly ascendant religiopolitical elites facilitated CJ's mobilization and expansion to gain support from rural residents and to consolidate power against political opponents. As CJ transitioned from a revolutionary organization to a government ministry, some of its members underwent a motivational and existential transformation that complicated and contradicted their initially anti‐bureaucratic and anti‐materialistic ethos and worldview – a trajectory that paralleled that of other revolutionary and wartime activists and volunteers. This article makes a scholarly contribution by exploring a significant yet understudied Iranian institution, its multifaceted interpretation and conceptualization of non‐military jihād and faith‐based development, and the potential of religion to be a force for both cohesion and contention.

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“…Terror. I argue that college student encounters with US empire in the US and Pakistan are premised on the imperial racialization of the "Muslim" subject as the "universal enemy" in the Global War on Terror (Li 2019).…”

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“…For students in NYC and Lahore, their educational pathways—or the pathways through which they tried to access education in each respective context—were organized into systems of stratified difference through US empire’s policies and programs designed to support the Global War on Terror. I argue that college student encounters with US empire in the US and Pakistan are premised on the imperial racialization of the “Muslim” subject as the “universal enemy” in the Global War on Terror (Li 2019).…”

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The Imperial Optic: Mapping the Impact of the Global War on Terror on Higher Education in the US and Pakistan

Durrani

2022

Transforming Anthropology

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In this article, I offer the "imperial optic" as an ethnographic approach to observe and analyze the ongoing impact of US empire on Pakistani-origin youth. Drawing from twenty-four months of ethnographic fieldwork in Lahore, New York City, and online with two groups of participants-(1) Pakistani Diaspora Muslim students at a public college in the United States and (2) Pakistani Pashtun Muslim scholarship students at a private university in Pakistan-I analyze how US war policies shaped student access and mobility within each respective institution of higher education. Although I worked primarily on two urban college campusesfar from the typically imagined "theaters of war"my findings demonstrate how US imperialism was a definitive feature shaping college life in both settings. I show how students encountered US regimes of imperial racialization as part of their educational pathways and argue that localized systems of stratified difference in Lahore and NYC are incorporated into the Global War on Terror and its attendant policies. These global processes of imperial racialization between two otherwise seemingly diffuse educational contexts become observable when deploying the "imperial optic" approach to multisited ethnography. [racialization, Global War on Terror, higher education, Muslims, Pakistan] 66

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The Universal Enemy

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Region‐centric infrastructure policies and the regional politics surrounding Chinese railway projects: Insights from the East Africa region

Region‐centric infrastructure policies and the regional politics surrounding Chinese railway projects: Insights from the East Africa region

Mobilizing and Framing Construction Jihād and Islamic Development in Revolutionary Iran

The Imperial Optic: Mapping the Impact of the Global War on Terror on Higher Education in the US and Pakistan

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