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Globalization, God and Galloway

The Islamisization of Bangladeshi Communities in London

Delwar Hussain: E–mail: dh368{at}cam.ac.uk.

In this article I want to investigate the strategic values of ethnicity, class, religion, global, local and transnational processes as resources for political mobilization, struggle and resistance in the global city. Though some of my argument can be applied to many global cities, I will do this by exploring it in the context of the Islamisization of Bangladeshi communities in the global city par excellance, London. This will be an attempt to analytically link actual state policies, capitalism, transnational and global networks to forms of cultural reproduction, inventiveness and possibilities. This analysis can in turn provide us with an understanding of the role played by migrant communities in the context of a contemporary multicultural Britain. This study is timely. Not only due to the subject matter of the global rise of religious movements, but also because local case studies—not local in the sense of fixed and bounded communities, but as sites from which mobility as well as fixity can be empirically observed—are vitally necessary for elaborating the nature of the contemporary world. This article is aiming to contribute to a conversation, partly public and partly taking place within the political sciences.

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