Learning to become a good Muslim: transformative mo(ve)ments beyond gang engagement and radicalization

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Abstract

This chapter explores the process of learning to become a good Muslim, analyzing the boundary community and relations that enabled a former gang leader, X, to move beyond gang engagement and religious radicalization. The chapter is based on collective, participatory practice research, utilizing mo(ve)ment methodology to grasp pivotal points of transformation in X’s life. We follow X’s movements beyond the brotherhood with his (former) fellow street gang members and explore the changes emerging through his engagement in Islam and a Muslim community. The dialectics of boundary community relations and transformative movements, analyzed over time, extend across a forensic psychiatric ward, a high security prison, Danish political agendas, our research collaboration and the Muslim community, X is part of. The analysis of the differentiated and transformative process of learning in X’s movement beyond radicalization and gang engagement challenges dominating Danish political discourses on ‘cross-over’ from gang engagement to radicalized Islamic practice – especially the common belief that Islam has a potentially negative and radicalizing influence on formerly criminalized youth.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
Titel New Spaces of Difference (working title) : Critical Studies of Learning Practices
RedaktørerMarina França, Ana Gomes, Dorte kousholt, Jean Lave, Line Lerche Mørck
Antal sider26
ForlagCambridge: Cambridge University Press
StatusAfsendt - 31 aug. 2023

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  • Radikalisering
  • Fællesskab

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