Dissertation: Monetary Economics as State Building - Non-State Actors Challenging Traditional Norms of Statehood
Exploring the historical context of statehood is useful for understanding the definitional progression of states, economics, and sovereignty, as well as the evolving bond between these three concepts. Over time, states have come together to consolidate, distribute, and protect wealth within fixed territories. Monetary economics, by definition, involve the creation and management of money within states. International monetary systems set rules to facilitate international trade and relocation of capital between states. While distribution and administration of wealth is integral to the definition of state, this relationship becomes more complex when sovereignty is in question. Modern conceptualizations of the state encompass war-making, protecting, distributing, and administering, as well as recognition and legitimacy.
My primary area of research address how the social constructions of monetary economics in the media campaigns of violent extremist organizations work to disrupt the existing international order. It also examines how violent extremist organizations manipulate institutions and resources such as monetary economics for state building purposes.
To this end, my research asks:
My dissertation contributes to three burgeoning areas of scholarship territorial sovereignty and digital world, rebel governance, and constitutive rhetoric. It builds on the framework of rebel governance in ungoverned spaces, in this case though expanding from territorial limitations into the digital world. This work expands rebel governance typology into the digital world, arguing the territorial institutionalization could be constructed online targeting outside of the boundaries of territory to the global audience (Mampilly, 2011; Mampilly & Stewart, 2020). The centralization and control of ISIS propaganda further illustrates the argument Benedict Anderson (2016) makes about print capitalism paving the way to nation states; although in this case the message is online and virtual yet is has the same effect of bringing together a diverse community to believe that they are unified. Lastly, as Scott (2008) examines the process of social engineering in transforming into modern nation-states, ISIS’s use of markets in their visual propaganda ascertains their objective to be seen as a state. In answering questions about the constructions of identify and state-ness my work contributes to theoretical arguments about traditional norms of statehood and rebel governance.
Exploring the historical context of statehood is useful for understanding the definitional progression of states, economics, and sovereignty, as well as the evolving bond between these three concepts. Over time, states have come together to consolidate, distribute, and protect wealth within fixed territories. Monetary economics, by definition, involve the creation and management of money within states. International monetary systems set rules to facilitate international trade and relocation of capital between states. While distribution and administration of wealth is integral to the definition of state, this relationship becomes more complex when sovereignty is in question. Modern conceptualizations of the state encompass war-making, protecting, distributing, and administering, as well as recognition and legitimacy.
My primary area of research address how the social constructions of monetary economics in the media campaigns of violent extremist organizations work to disrupt the existing international order. It also examines how violent extremist organizations manipulate institutions and resources such as monetary economics for state building purposes.
To this end, my research asks:
- how does monetary economic messaging content relate to territorial sovereignty?
- How does rhetoric of economics of non-state actors in the online environment help form new collectives?
- How do economic emblems such as coins function as objects of constitutive discourse?
My dissertation contributes to three burgeoning areas of scholarship territorial sovereignty and digital world, rebel governance, and constitutive rhetoric. It builds on the framework of rebel governance in ungoverned spaces, in this case though expanding from territorial limitations into the digital world. This work expands rebel governance typology into the digital world, arguing the territorial institutionalization could be constructed online targeting outside of the boundaries of territory to the global audience (Mampilly, 2011; Mampilly & Stewart, 2020). The centralization and control of ISIS propaganda further illustrates the argument Benedict Anderson (2016) makes about print capitalism paving the way to nation states; although in this case the message is online and virtual yet is has the same effect of bringing together a diverse community to believe that they are unified. Lastly, as Scott (2008) examines the process of social engineering in transforming into modern nation-states, ISIS’s use of markets in their visual propaganda ascertains their objective to be seen as a state. In answering questions about the constructions of identify and state-ness my work contributes to theoretical arguments about traditional norms of statehood and rebel governance.
Islamic State Coins
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Coins as transhistorical artifacts & ideographs:
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‘Abd al-Malik b. Marwan Islamic gold coinage in 77h from Lot 5 in Morton & Eden Ltd. Important Coins of the Islamic World. London, UK: Sotheby’s, 2020. https://www.mortonandeden.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/web107.pdf.
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Related publications
Lokmanoglu, Ayse. “Coin as Imagined Sovereignty: A Rhetorical Analysis of Coins as a Transhistorical Artifact and an Ideograph in Islamic State’s Communication.” Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1080/1057610X.2020.1793458.
Lokmanoglu, Ayse. “Coin as Imagined Sovereignty: A Rhetorical Analysis of Coins as a Transhistorical Artifact and an Ideograph in Islamic State’s Communication.” Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1080/1057610X.2020.1793458.
