Radicalized Loyalties: Becoming Muslim in the West

ISBN-13: 9781509519347 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 220 str.

Fabien Truong

Opis

In the wake of the Syrian conflict and the terrorist attacks in France, the UK and elsewhere, there has been a growing concern about the 'radicalization' of young Muslims. Deprived areas of Western cities are believed to have become breeding grounds of home-grown extremism.

Recenzje

Truong takes us deep inside the personal world of six immigrant young men from France s disreputable urban periphery. He shows how they navigate the promises and demands of the school, the street economy, the prison and the police, and why they are attracted (or not) by Islam as a floating political imaginary. An insightful and urgent contribution to the analysis of the social fabrication of terrorists that punctures the sonorous but empty notion of radicalization.
Loïc Wacquant, University of California, Berkeley

"It is not a clash of civilizations that Fabien Truong vividly describes but a collapse of communities, as young men in transitional stages of their life search for significance in the West′s Muslim diaspora. If you want to understand how most overcome feelings of rootlessness and despair and how a few become jihadis, read this book."
Scott Atran, CNRS, Paris, and University of Oxford

"Truong vividly describes the lives of young men from immigrant backgrounds in the Paris banlieue, charting their trajectories from dropping out of school towards crime and then prison. This is an extremely valuable book, rich in ethnographic detail and very well written: I was irresistibly drawn in to this world of kickbacks, payoffs and unsettlingly deep resentment against the whole of French society."
David Lehmann, University of Cambridge, UK

"an excellent ethnography of Muslim masculinity "
Times Higher Education

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Fabien Truong is lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Paris–8.