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1st Edition

Nativist and Islamist Radicalism Anger and Anxiety

Edited By Ayhan Kaya, Ayşenur Benevento, Metin Koca Copyright 2023

262 Pages

by Routledge

262 Pages

by Routledge

Description

This book analyses the factors and processes behind radicalisation of both native and self-identified Muslim youths. It argues that European youth responds differently to the challenges posed by contemporary flows of globalisation such as deindustrialisation, socio-economic, political, spatial, and psychological forms of deprivation, humiliation, and structural exclusion. The book revisits... Read more

Table of Contents

Introduction

Ayhan Kaya, Metin Koca, and Ayşenur Benevento

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

Roberta Ricucci

2. Alternative für Deutschland's Appeal to Native Youth in Dresden: Heritage Populism

Ayhan Kaya

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

Denis van de Wetering and Tobias Hecker

Part II: Mental Processes of Radicalisation

4. Islamophobia and Radicalisation: When Attitudes of Both Mainstream Society and Immigrant-Origin Muslims Become Extreme

Constantina Badea

5. Radicalisation, Extremism, or A Third Position?: How French Muslim Women Engage with the Challenges of Assimilation and Difference

Catarina Kinnvall, Tereza Capelos, and Poppy Laurens

6. Is It Radical for a Woman to Become a Stay-at-Home Mother or Wear a Headscarf?

Ayşenur Benevento

Part III: Critical Analyses of Islamist Radicalisation

7. Risking Muslims: Counter-Radicalisation Policies and Responses of Dutch Muslims to the Racialization of Danger

Martijn de Koning

8. The Radicalisation of Moroccan-Origin Youth in Europe: The Case of France

Mehdi Lahlou

9. Religiosities in a Globalised Market: Migrant-Origin Muslim Europeans' Self-Positioning Beyond Sending and Receiving the States’ Politics of Religion

Metin Koca

10. Commentary: Why Extremism?

Olivier Roy

Epilogue

Ayhan Kaya, Metin Koca, and Ayşenur Benevento

Editor(s)

Biography

Ayhan Kaya is Professor of Politics and Jean Monnet Chair of European Politics of Interculturalism in the Department of International Relations, Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey.

Ayşenur Benevento works as a postdoctoral researcher in the European Research Council advanced grant project, PRIME Youth, conducted at Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey.

Metin Koca works as a postdoctoral researcher in the European Research Council advanced grant project, PRIME Youth, conducted at Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey.

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