Simone AbdouMaliq
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195369212
- eISBN:
- 9780199871179
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195369212.003.0009
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society, Islam
This chapter concerns specific practices of urban youth culture undertaken by youth who are Muslim to construct a particular horizon of youth—a temporal framework that resituates the position of ...
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This chapter concerns specific practices of urban youth culture undertaken by youth who are Muslim to construct a particular horizon of youth—a temporal framework that resituates the position of being youth away from the cultural conventions of development. In other words, a means of envisioning a future that enables youth to become something other than youth, but without relying upon the customary means for resolving this transformation, particularly as the transformation into adulthood is something increasingly problematic. The chapter quickly passes through a few different settings, Cameroon, Bangkok, and Marseilles, in the urban South. This tour is undertaken more for its allegorical possibilities than for any pretense of critical comparison, because cities—with their disparate histories, positions, economies, and styles—are comparable only in broad strokes. Similarly, the designation Muslim youth is hardly a coherent category. Accordingly, the divergent sites and popular quarters are assembled here as a means of pointing to realms of possibilities and constraints, perhaps not capable of generalization across settings, but indicative of both fading and emerging parameters of action.Less
This chapter concerns specific practices of urban youth culture undertaken by youth who are Muslim to construct a particular horizon of youth—a temporal framework that resituates the position of being youth away from the cultural conventions of development. In other words, a means of envisioning a future that enables youth to become something other than youth, but without relying upon the customary means for resolving this transformation, particularly as the transformation into adulthood is something increasingly problematic. The chapter quickly passes through a few different settings, Cameroon, Bangkok, and Marseilles, in the urban South. This tour is undertaken more for its allegorical possibilities than for any pretense of critical comparison, because cities—with their disparate histories, positions, economies, and styles—are comparable only in broad strokes. Similarly, the designation Muslim youth is hardly a coherent category. Accordingly, the divergent sites and popular quarters are assembled here as a means of pointing to realms of possibilities and constraints, perhaps not capable of generalization across settings, but indicative of both fading and emerging parameters of action.
