TY - JOUR
T1 - ‘I grew a beard and my dad flipped out!’
T2 - co-option of British Muslim parents in countering ‘extremism’ within their families in Bradford and Leeds
AU - Abbas, Madeline Sophie
PY - 2018/4/27
Y1 - 2018/4/27
N2 - Research on the effects of counter-terrorism has argued that Muslims are constructed as a ‘suspect community’. However, there remains a paucity of research exploring divisive effects membership to a ‘suspect community’ has on relations within Muslim families. Drawing from interviews conducted in 2010–2011 with British Muslims living in Bradford or Leeds, I address this gap by examining how co-option of Muslim parents to counter extremism fractures relations within Muslim families. I show that internalising fears of their children being radicalised or indeed radicalising others, means parents judge young Muslims’ religious practices through a restrictive moderate/extremist binary. I advance the category of ‘internal suspect body’ which is materialised through two intersecting conditions: the suspected Muslim extremist to lookout for and young Muslims at risk of radicalisation. I delineate the reproductive effects of terrors of counter-terrorism on Muslims’ experiences as they traverse state, intra-group and individual levels.
AB - Research on the effects of counter-terrorism has argued that Muslims are constructed as a ‘suspect community’. However, there remains a paucity of research exploring divisive effects membership to a ‘suspect community’ has on relations within Muslim families. Drawing from interviews conducted in 2010–2011 with British Muslims living in Bradford or Leeds, I address this gap by examining how co-option of Muslim parents to counter extremism fractures relations within Muslim families. I show that internalising fears of their children being radicalised or indeed radicalising others, means parents judge young Muslims’ religious practices through a restrictive moderate/extremist binary. I advance the category of ‘internal suspect body’ which is materialised through two intersecting conditions: the suspected Muslim extremist to lookout for and young Muslims at risk of radicalisation. I delineate the reproductive effects of terrors of counter-terrorism on Muslims’ experiences as they traverse state, intra-group and individual levels.
KW - Counter-terrorism
KW - extremism
KW - Muslim
KW - radicalisation
KW - suspect
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85046035026&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/1369183X.2018.1466694
DO - 10.1080/1369183X.2018.1466694
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85046035026
SN - 1369-183X
VL - 45
SP - 1458
EP - 1476
JO - Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
JF - Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
IS - 9
ER -