Globalization’s economic machinery and military empire function together to reshape Afghanistan

Evidence

Just as Burnt Shadows is alert to those fragile human connections so easily shattered by the raucous insistence of group and national affiliations, so, too, it represents the confluence of economic and military globalization in its depiction of the operations of the private contractor Arkwright and Glenn. Harry and Raza end up working for this company, which runs a camp in Afghanistan serving U.S. military needs. The company’s presence is consistent with the expedient view of Afghanistan as a site of corporate interests. … However, just as globalization in effect often leads to divergence and conflict rather than to convergence, so in Burnt Shadows Hiroko comes to recognize that difference and discrimination are as important as connection and uniformity. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 424

Categorization

• XREF: The fusion of private military contractors into corporate-state power echoes the militarized corporate structure in Morey’s account and connects to how The Reluctant Fundamentalist shows Jim’s valuation of Changez inside a corporate-military empire. — connects to: US financial-military hegemony structured the postwar Fordist world economy — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 825; US post-war hegemony repurposed Orientalism and modernization theory to justify empire. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 28; The novel links private military contracting to the exploitation of Afghanistan’s reconstruction (+6 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: US financial-military hegemony structured the postwar Fordist world economy — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 825; US post-war hegemony repurposed Orientalism and modernization theory to justify empire. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 28; The novel links private military contracting to the exploitation of Afghanistan’s reconstruction (+6 more)