Domesticating Youth

Youth Bulges and their Socio-political Implications in Tajikistan
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-78238-262-1
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 292 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 582 g

Reihe: Integration and Conflict Studies

Most of the Muslim societies of the world have entered a demographic transition from high to low fertility, and this process is accompanied by an increase in youth vis-à-vis other age groups. Political scientists and historians have debated whether such a “youth bulge” increases the potential for conflict or whether it represents a chance to accumulate wealth and push forward social and technological developments. This book introduces the discussion about youth bulge into social anthropology using Tajikistan, a post-Soviet country that experienced civil war in the 1990s, which is in the middle of such a demographic transition. Sophie Roche develops a social anthropological approach to analyze demographic and political dynamics, and suggests a new way of thinking about social change in youth bulge societies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Roche, Sophie

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Globalisierung, Transformationsprozesse
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Soziologie und Psychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Demographie, Demoskopie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Kinder- und Jugendsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Maps, Figures and Tables

Foreword: The Construction of Life Phases and Some Facts of Life

Günther Schlee

Acknowledgements

Notes on Transliteration and Usage

Introduction: Youth (Bulge) and Conflict

Chapter 1. Placing the Field Sites in Their Context – A Demographic History

Chapter 2. ‘Why Didn’t You Take a Side?’ –The Emergence of Youth Categories, Institutions and Groups

Chapter 3. ‘Siblings are as Different as the Five Fingers of a Hand’ – Developmental Cycle of Domestic Groups and Siblingship

Chapter 4. ‘The Gift of Youth’ – Workers, Religious Actors and Migrants

Chapter 5. ‘The only Thing in Life that Makes you Feel like a King’ – Marriage as an Indicator of Social and Demographic Changes

Chapter 6. ‘Youth are our Future’ – The State’s Youth Categories Challenged by Youth

Conclusion: The Dynamics of Youth Bulge as a Question of Domestication

Appendix

Glossary of Selected Terms

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Roche, Sophie
Sophie Roche is currently leading the junior research group “The Demographic Turn in the Junction of Cultures” at the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context” at the University of Heidelberg. She worked at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Germany and received her PhD from this University Halle-Wittenberg. She then joined the Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin in 2010 with a project on jihad in text and context, an ethnographic approach. She has extensive ethnographic experiences in Tajikistan and in Russia among Migrants for Central Asia.