{"product_id":"radicalized-loyalties-becoming-muslim-in-the-west-hardback-9781509519347","title":"Radicalized Loyalties; Becoming Muslim in the West (Hardback) 9781509519347","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRadicalized Loyalties\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eBecoming Muslim in the West\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eFabien Truong (Author), Seth Ackerman (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509519347, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 11 May 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e220 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.1 x 15.8 x 2 cm, 0.431 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eDavid Lehmann, University of Cambridge, UK\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Truong take 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.'\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eLoïc Wacquant, University of California, Berkeley\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eScott Atran, CNRS, Paris, and University of Oxford\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"... an excellent ethnography of Muslim masculinity.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTimes Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"... a thoughtful, well-crafted ethnography that humanizes the faceless, amorphous 'Muslim youth' of the French banlieues.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eRadicalized Loyalties\u003c\/i\u003e is an outstanding study of the social worlds of immigrant young men living in the urban periphery of Paris.... The book will be of great interest to scholars within the cross-disciplinary field of (counter)terrorism studies as well as to social scientists and anthropologists interested in state-margin relationships, Islam, the secular state, and the administration of the urban periphery in the West.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEthnos\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThere is widespread concern today about the “radicalization” of young muslim men, and the deprived areas of Western cities are believed to have become breeding grounds of home-grown extremism. But how do young Muslims growing up in the cities of the West really live? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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 \u003ci\u003eCharlie Hebdo\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBecoming 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eNote to the Reader\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: The call of the ground\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFriday the 13th\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBehind absurdity, the social world\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe magic of \"radicalization\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA bad religion for \"bad seeds\"?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFinding Allah at street-level\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 1: Common histories\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMaking a home in public housing: a French history\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Boys will be boys\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConflicting loyalties, recognition of debts\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A white fence-post in a dark forest\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRebels without a cause, or a cause without rebels?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 2: On the margins of the city\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eImprints of school\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe incompleteness of le business\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommon criminals\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMasculine machines\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePolice, death, and hatred: a political trinity\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 3: Reconversions\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBeing or becoming Muslim? The \"community\" illusion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Koran: reading and sharing\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn the here and now: getting better\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBeyond the here and now: being the best\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe value of reconversion and the reconversion of values\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 4: War and Peace\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTurning thirty: the verdict\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eToward a sociology of inner peace\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKif-kif\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDesires for Syria: going off to war, over there\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"I am Amédy\": at war, over here\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpilogue\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Sociology%20\u0026amp;%20anthropology%20%5BJH%5D%22\"\u003eJH\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52441786777880,"sku":"9781509519347","price":45.78,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509519347.jpg?v=1785025049","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/radicalized-loyalties-becoming-muslim-in-the-west-hardback-9781509519347","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}