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Family and Jihadism: A Socio-Anthropological Approach to the French Experience book cover

1st Edition

Family and Jihadism A Socio-Anthropological Approach to the French Experience

Edited By Jérôme Ferret, Farhad Khosrokhavar Copyright 2022
272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge
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This volume explores the paramount importance of family to jihadism in France, Spain and in Europe more generally. In France, special focus is given to the Mohammed Merah paradigmatic case study in the Toulouse region. In Spain, attention is given to the North and to Catalonia. With attention to both the concrete family - often in crisis - and the imaginary family invented by radicalized youth to... Read more

Series Editor’s Introduction

1. French Jihadism and the Family: Hypothesis and Presentation of the Fields Studied

Jérôme Ferret, Farhad Khosrokhavar and Bruno Domingo

2. The ‘Merah Clan’. Family Trajectories and Transformation of the Economy of Violence

Bruno Domingo

3. Artigat or the Imaginary Neo-Umma

Farhad Khosrokhavar

4. Charisma of Action, Mystical Charisma, Neo-Umma Source of European Jihadism: The Example of Toulouse and its Region

Abderrahim El Janati

5. New Fraternal Scenes and Jihadist Violence. Ripoll (Catalonia, North Spain)

Jérôme Ferret

6. Rise and Fall of a Jihadist Neo Family: The Cannes-Torcy Cell

Bartolomeo Conti

7. The Jihadist Commitment as a Solution to the Impasses of Family Transmissions

Sonia Harrati and David Vavassori

8. Jihadism and the Family: A Heuristic Model Questioned, Energized and Augmented

Jérôme Ferret, Farhad Khosrokhavar and Bruno Domingo

Appendix: Biographical Presentation of the Main Actors Studied

Biography

Jérôme Ferret is Associate Professor of Sociology (HDR) at University of Toulouse Capitole (Idetcom) and Co-Director of the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société de Toulouse, (MSHS T, UAR 3414, CNRS, France). He is the author of Crisis social, movimientos y sociedad en España hoy: Ensayo sobre el proceso Conflicto, Violencia y Subjetivación.

Farhad Khosrokhavar is Professor of Sociology at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, France. He is the author of Suicide Bombers: Allah’s New Martyrs and Inside Jihadism: Understanding Jihadi Movements Worldwide.

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