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Zusatztext Among the impressive features of ^ Informationen zum Autor Linda Herrera, Senior Lecturer in International Development Studies, is Convenor of the Children and Youth Studies M.A. specialization at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam.Asef Bayat, Professor of Sociology and Middle East Studies, holds the chair of Society and Culture of the Middle East and Leiden University, The Netherlands. He is the author of Making Islam Democratic: Social Movements and the Post-Islamist Turn (2007) and Life as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East (2010). Klappentext This volume explores the ways in which the young, both in Muslim majority societies and Muslim communities in the West, negotiate their Muslim identity in relation to their youthful desires - their individuality, the search for autonomy and security for the future. The cultural behavior of Muslim youths, the authors argue, must be understood as located in the political realm and representing a new arena of contestation for power. The essays in this volume look at the strategies Muslim youths deploy to realize their interests and aspirations, including music and fashion, party politics, collective violence, gang activities, religious radicalism and other forms of expression. Zusammenfassung "This is an excellent collection of essays on youth in a number of Muslim majority (and minority) societies in the context of globalization and modernity. A particular strength of this volume is its ability to highlight the multiple and contested roles of religion and personal faith in the fashioning of contemporary youthful Muslim identities. Such insights often challenge secular Western master narratives of modernity and suggest credible reconceptualizations of what it means to be young and modern in a broad swath of the world today."-- Asma Afsaruddin, Professor of Islamic Studies, Indiana UniversityIn recent years, there has been a proliferation of interest in youth issues and Muslim youth in particular. Young Muslims have been thrust into the global spotlight in relation to questions about security and extremism, work and migration, and rights and citizenship. This book interrogates the cultures and politics of Muslim youth in the global South and North to understand their trajectories, conditions, and choices. Drawing on wide-ranging research from Indonesia to Iran and Germany to the U.S., it shows that while the majority of young Muslims share many common social, political, and economic challenges, they exhibit remarkably diverse responses to them. Far from being "exceptional," young Muslims often have as much in common with their non-Muslim global generational counterparts as they share among themselves. As they migrate, forge networks, innovate in the arts, master the tools of new media, and assert themselves in the public sphere, Muslim youth have emerged as important cultural and political actors on a world stage. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction: Being Young and Muslim in Neoliberal Times Asef Bayat and Linda Herrera Politics of Dissent Muslim Youth and the Claim of Youthfulness Asef Bayat The Drama of Jihad: The Emergence of Salafi Youth in Indonesia Noorhaidi Hasan Moroccan Youth and Political Islam Mounia Bennani-Chraïbi Rebels without a Cause? A Politics of Deviance in Saudi Arabia Abdullah al-Otaibi and Pascal Ménoret The Battle of the Ages: Contests for Religious Authority in The Gambia Marloes Janson Cyber Resistance: Palestinian Youth and Emerging Internet Culture Makram Khoury-Machool Livelihoods and Lifestyles Young Egyptians' Quest for Jobs and Justice Linda Herrera Reaching a Larger World: Muslim Youth and Expanding Circuitries of Operation AbdouMaliq Simone Being Young, Muslim and American in Brooklyn
