Personnel rotation across military, academic, and think-tank spheres sustains the Islamophobia industry
Evidence
Moreover, these spheres are not monolithic, but consist of a plurality of visions broadly organized around liberal and conservative wings. Further, each of the domains is connected to one another as ideas and practices, and personnel from each move across these spaces. This is indicated by the arrows that connect the boxes. In terms of personnel, military generals become politicians, politicians take up positions within the academy, academics are recruited to be part of government task forces, and people in all of these spheres are part of the same think tanks. Significant numbers who inhabit these spaces also have ties to private industry, from military contractors to video game producers. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 738
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- XREF: Mirrors the revolving-door literature on the military-industrial complex and connects to Pierre Bourdieu’s field theory of how elites circulate across institutional domains.