Radicalized Loyalties

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Becoming Muslim in the West

By Fabien Truong

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Radicalized Loyalties explores the lives of young Muslim men growing up in the housing estates around Paris, delving beyond common perceptions of 'radicalization.' Fabien Truong introduces readers to individuals like Adama, Radouane, and Amédy Coulibaly, revealing their competing loyalties and the paths they take through faith and identity. The book portrays becoming Muslim as a profound personal transformation that can lead to positive change or a militant stance, reflecting complex struggles within deprived Western urban areas.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in sociology, contemporary Islam in Europe, urban studies, and the complexities of identity formation among Muslim youth in Western contexts. It is well suited for students, academics, and those seeking a nuanced understanding of radicalisation beyond common stereotypes.

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There is widespread concern today about the “radicalisation” 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?

Radicalized Loyalties 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 Charlie Hebdo 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.

Becoming Muslim does not necessarily lead to the radicalised “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.

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"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." — David Lehmann, University of Cambridge, UK

"Truong takes 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.'" — Loïc Wacquant, University of California, Berkeley

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781509519354

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 11 May 2018

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Polity Press

Contributors:

Translated by Seth Ackerman

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 150.0mm

Height: 226.0mm

Weight: 318g

Pages: 220

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About the Author

Fabien Truong is lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Paris-8.