The Political Theory Workshop presents:
Farhad Khosrokhavar, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales: “Two Types of Jihadists: Europe’s Disaffected Youth versus the Young Middle Class Jihadists.”
Since 2013, a new group of middle class youth has joined the ranks of the Jihadists, mostly of lower class origin and belonging to the poor suburbs (“banlieues”). The new group has distinct characteristics that do not match those of the young people from the poor suburbs. Among them the number of young adolescent boys but also the much higher proportion of girls and converts makes the phenomenon the more striking in the French and beyond that, the European cultural landscape. The comparison between the two groups, their social background and their cultural construction of their commitment give an insight into the problems faced by the European societies.
Farhad Khosrokhavar is a professor at Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales. He has been a Rockefeller fellow (1990), has given conferences in different European and American universities (Saint Antony’s college in Oxford Britain, Princeton, NYU, Columbia, UCLA, USC, Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Texas University at Austin…), was a Yale Visiting Scholar in 2008 and a Harvard Visiting Scholar in 2009. His most recent books include Radicalisation (Maison des Sciences de l’homme, Paris, 2014), The New Arab Revolutions that Shook the World (Paradigm Publishers, 2012), Jihadist Ideology, The Anthropological Perspective (CIR, Aarhus University, Danemark, 2011).
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