This book analyses the factors and processes behind radicalization of both native and self-identified Muslim youths. It argues that European youth respond differently to the challenges posed by contemporary flows of globalization such as deindustrialization, socio-economic, political, spatial and psychological forms of deprivation, humiliation, and structural exclusion.
The book revisits social, economic, political, and psychological drivers of radicalization, and challenges contemporary uses of the term ‘radicalism’. It argues that neoliberal forms of governance are often responsible for associating radicalism with extremism, terrorism, fundamentalism, and violence. It will appeal to students and scholars of migration, minority studies, nationalisms, European studies, sociology, political science, and psychology.
Author(s): Ayhan Kaya, Ayşenur Benevento, Metin Koca
Series: Routledge Research in Race and Ethnicity, 45
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 280
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction: Nativist and Islamist Radicalism: Anger and Anxiety
PART I: Spatial Deprivation and Local Contexts
1. Please, Don’t Blame Us: It Is Possible to Be Both Muslim and a Good Citizen in a Catholic Country
2. Alternative für Deutschland’s Appeal to Native Youth in Dresden: Heritage Populism
3. The Interplay of Psychological Stress, Aggression, Identity, and Implicit Knowledge: Findings from a Qualitative Study of Disengagement and Deradicalisation Processes Involving Former Right-Wing Extremists
PART II: Mental Processes of Radicalisation
4. Islamophobia and Radicalisation: When Attitudes of Both Mainstream Society and Immigrant-Origin Muslims Become Extreme
5. Radicalisation, Extremism, or a Third Position?: How French Muslim Women Engage with the Challenges of Assimilation and Difference
6. Is It Radical for a Woman to Become a Stay-at-Home Mother or Wear a Headscarf?
PART III: Critical Analyses of Islamist Radicalisation
7. Risking Muslims: Counter-Radicalisation Policies and Responses of Dutch Muslims to the Racialisation of Danger
8. The Radicalisation of Morrocan-Origin Youth in Europe: The Case of France
9. Religiosities in a Globalised Market: Migrant-Origin Muslim Europeans’ Self-Positioning Beyond the Sending and Receiving States’ Politics of Religion
10. Commentary: Why Extremism?
Epilogue
Index
