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Contesting Fundamentalisms

Edited by Carol Schick, JoAnn Jaffe & Ailsa M. Watkinson
Categories: Social Science
Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
Paperback : 9781552661277, 186 pages, September 2004
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Table of contents

  • : Considering Fundamentalism
  • : Cultural and Ethnic Fundamentalism: Identity, Liberation and Oppression
  • : Real Indians: Cultural Revitalization and Fundamentalism in Aboriginal Education
  • : The Makings of a Post-Zionist Discourse: Jewish Fundamentalisms and a Critical Politics of Identity
  • : More Than a Pejorative Epithet: Islamic Fundamentalism(s)
  • : Sifting Islam from Fundamentalism: Muslim Feminists Struggle
  • : Lean and Mean: Hegemonic Masculinity and Fundamentalism
  • : With Us or With the Terrorists: American Hyperpatriotism as Fundamentalism
  • : The Market will Make it Right: Neoliberalism as Market Fundamentalism
  • : Religious Fundamentalism Meets the Charter: Equality Rights and Re-Privatized Public Services
  • : Slippery and Unstable: School and Human Rights

Description

A multidimensional understanding of the nature of fundamentalism is presented in this exploration of fundamentalism’s manifestations in economics, nationalism, ethnic relations, gender politics, and religious practice. While religious fundamentalism has been a particularly potent cultural force in contemporary times, other spheres have been affected by this revival of extreme positions. How fundamentalism is used by the powerful to retain privileged positions and how it can be attractive to subordinate groups as a strategy for resisting oppression are among the issues discussed in this incisive examination.