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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 language | English |
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Title of host publication | Ruptures : Anthropologies of Discontinuity in Times of Turmoil |
Editors | Martin Holbraad, Bruce Kapferer, Julia Sauma |
Number of pages | 19 |
Place of Publication | London |
Publisher | UCL Press |
Publication date | 2019 |
Pages | 174-192 |
Chapter | 8 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781787356207 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781787356238 |
Publication status | Published - 2019 |
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Affective Events: An Anthropological Study of Danish Foreign Fighters
Kublitz, A. (PI)
01/11/2016 → 31/10/2021
Project: Research
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Escalations: A Comparative Study of Accelerating Change
Kublitz, A. (Project Participant)
01/09/2014 → 01/09/2019
Project: Research
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From Revolutions to Miracles
Kublitz, A. (Lecturer)
4 Nov 2019Activity: Talks and presentations › Conference presentations
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Rupture
Kublitz, A. (Participant)
13 Feb 2017 → 15 Feb 2017Activity: Attending an event › Conference organisation or participation