The Rhythm of Rupture: Attunement among Danish Jihadists

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    Abstract

    Among my interlocutors, the Arab Spring of 2011 was received as a miracle that cut through the existing political order and called upon them to radically change their lives. From one day to the next, they gave up on their criminal careers, turned towards God and decided to travel to the Middle East to take up arms. The majority of young Danish jihadists have grown up in the context of Danish housing projects and in the shadow of their parents’ failed revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa. Based on long-term fieldwork among immigrants in Denmark, this chapter explores how my interlocutors attune to the recursive ruptures that always are new again. I argue that sometimes people’s lives are so marked by ruptures that any continuity has collapsed; sometimes ruptures only come as rhythms: as continuous repetition of potential radical change.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationRuptures : Anthropologies of Discontinuity in Times of Turmoil
    EditorsMartin Holbraad, Bruce Kapferer, Julia Sauma
    Number of pages19
    Place of PublicationLondon
    PublisherUCL Press
    Publication date2019
    Pages174-192
    Chapter8
    ISBN (Print)9781787356207
    ISBN (Electronic)9781787356238
    Publication statusPublished - 2019

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