ABSTRACT
The field of veiling studies has grown exponentially over the last few decades, encompassing forms of analyses from a broad range of disciplinary perspectives. Scholars of veiling would find many useful concepts, ideas and analytical orientations within the realm of globalization analyses. A crucial step for veiling studies is to avoid simplification and reification of some terms, precisely the point raised by historical sociologists and others when they address the broader social sciences. Veiling also has much to do with social and political dynamics that both transcend the borders erected through processes of state and nation creation, and also sometimes involve counter-movements that seek to challenge or disrupt the state and nation-building activities of elites. National projects have unintentionally led to and fostered the creation of transnational counter-projects, most spectacular case of radical Islamism. Veiling exists at the intersection between these two great sets of processes, each of which encompasses particular ideologies, affectivities and calls to mobilize millions of people.
