{"product_id":"jihadism-in-europe-european-youth-and-the-new-caliphate-9780197564967","title":"Jihadism in Europe: European Youth and the New Caliphate","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Farhad Khosrokhavar\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Discrimination \u0026amp; Racism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEuropean jihadism is a multi-faceted social phenomenon. It is not only linked to the extremist behavior of a limited group, but also to a much more global crisis, including the lack of a utopian vision and a loss of meaning among the middle classes, and the humiliation and denial of citizenship among disaffiliated young people in poor districts all over Western Europe. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book explores how European jihadism is fundamentally grounded in an unbridled and modern imagination, in an uneasy relationship with social, cultural, and economic reality. That imagination emerges among: young women and their longing for another family model; adolescents and their desire to become adults and to overcome the family crisis; people with mental problems for whom jihad is a catharsis; and young converts who seek contrast with a disenchanted secular Europe. The family and its crisis, in many ways, plays a role in promoting jihadism, particularly in families of immigrant origin whose relationship to patriarchy is different from that of the mainstream society in Europe. Exclusion from mainstream society is also a factor: at the urban level, a large proportion of jihadists come from poor, stigmatized, and ethnically segregated districts. But jihadism is also an expression of the loss of hope in the future in a globalized world among middle class and lower-class youth.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47889075372183,"sku":"9780197564967","price":10626.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780197564967.webp?v=1781174058","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/jihadism-in-europe-european-youth-and-the-new-caliphate-9780197564967","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}