Radicalized Loyalties
Polity Press (Verlag)
978-1-5095-1934-7 (ISBN)
This book takes us beyond the rhetoric and into the housing estates on the outskirts of Paris to meet Adama, Radouane, Hassan, Tarik, Marley, and a shadowy figure whose name suddenly and brutally became known to the world at the time of the Charlie Hebdo shootings: Amédy Coulibaly. Seeing Amédy through the eyes of close friends and other young Muslim men in the neighbourhoods where they grew up, Fabien Truong uncovers a network of competing loyalties and maps the road these youths take to resolve the conflicts they face: becoming Muslim. For these young men, Islam stands, often alone, as a resource, a gateway – as if it were the last route to “escape” without betrayal and to “fight” in a meaningful and noble way.
Becoming Muslim does not necessarily lead to the radicalized “other”. It is more like a long-distance race, a powerful reconversion of the self that allows for introspection and change. But it can also lead to a belligerent presentation of the self that transforms a dead-end into a call to arms.
Fabien Truong is lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Paris-8.
Note to the Reader
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The call of the ground
Friday the 13th
Behind absurdity, the social world
The magic of "radicalization"
A bad religion for "bad seeds"?
Finding Allah at street-level
Chapter 1: Common histories
Making a home in public housing: a French history
"Boys will be boys"
Conflicting loyalties, recognition of debts
"A white fence-post in a dark forest"
Rebels without a cause, or a cause without rebels?
Chapter 2: On the margins of the city
Imprints of school
The incompleteness of le business
Common criminals
Masculine machines
Police, death, and hatred: a political trinity
Chapter 3: Reconversions
Being or becoming Muslim? The "community" illusion
The Koran: reading and sharing
In the here and now: getting better
Beyond the here and now: being the best
The value of reconversion and the reconversion of values
Chapter 4: War and Peace
Turning thirty: the verdict
Toward a sociology of inner peace
Kif-kif
Desires for Syria: going off to war, over there
"I am Amédy": at war, over here
Epilogue
Notes
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 13.05.2018 |
|---|---|
| Übersetzer | Seth Ackerman |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 158 x 231 mm |
| Gewicht | 431 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5095-1934-3 / 1509519343 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5095-1934-7 / 9781509519347 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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