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Nurturing Curiosity Beyond Identity Labels to Find the Radical: Notes on What Encouraged Radical Youth to Participate in Transnational Qualitative Research
(Springer, 2023-06) Benevento, Ayşenur
Researchers interested in expanding our understanding about individuals, who are silenced by majority societies or those who willingly position themselves close to condemned standpoints, need to also think about ways of approaching and encouraging potential research participants. The current paper frames that need as an act of curiosity and an ethical responsibility. With that framing in hand, the paper explains the process of overcoming difficulties related to recruiting radicalized subpopulations of youngsters (154 self-identified Muslim youth with migration backgrounds and 153 native youth who support movements labeled as far right) in a transnational qualitative research conducted in four different countries (Germany, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands) in 2020–2022. Because both groups are subject to the labels imposed on them by the majority societies (e.g., Muslim, Salafi, conservative, fascist, right wing, etc.), the researchers felt the need to be flexible in the ways they address and approach each participant. In the field, the purposeful efforts of recruitment wording for each individual appeared very useful in encouraging this by nature skeptical group of people. The current paper documents the development of this flexible strategy, which I hope will be useful to many qualitative researchers to facilitate their data collection efforts to identify and reach youth that is on the path of radicalization. We would like to encourage academics to stay curious about these two subpopulations of youth and other marginalized, singled out, and stigmatized groups, and consider interviewing as many individuals as possible in order to discover the radicals. © 2023, The Author(s).
Juxtaposing violent extremism and critical radicalism in Europe: the role of reflexive awareness in pursuit of religious purity and cultural essence
(Routledge, 2023-07) Koca, Metin
Employing an approach that focuses on three goals of ideology-making (i.e. resolving grievances, seeking status, socialization), this study explores the reflexive boundaries between (1) 68 individual representations of violent 'Jihadi' and 'right-wing' extremism in Europe, and (2) 130 young adult European citizens who pursue religious purity or cultural essence. Having identified the latter as a pool of 'critical radicalism' in the current political context, the study juxtaposes violent and non-violent radicalizations by challenging two interrelated assumptions. The first is the sameness assumption: those who use a similar repertoire are unified by their similarity. The second is the continuum assumption: radicalism will eventually lead to violence, given that 'radicalization' discursively implies a shift towards promoting or carrying out violent behaviour. Drawing on comparisons between interview and media narratives, I argue that violent extremism and critical radicalism part ways while developing reflective methods to evaluate grievances, reclaim agency in response to status losses, and align social bonds with the ideology. The conceptual divergence indicates several fault lines between ideological simplicity and completeness and relates to individuals' self-awareness in (re)making the ideology rather than a given ideology. This concluding remark has implications for the value of reflexive awareness in democracies.
Networked social movements and radicalisation: yellow vests' cross-ideological horizon for underrepresented groups
(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, 2023-02) Koca, Metin
This paper questions the opportunities that Yellow Vests as a Networked Social Movement (NETSM) created for politically underrepresented groups. Without a clear authority structure and a formal organisation, NETSMs challenge traditional leadership understandings. Nonetheless, their ability to determine precision in setting goals, demands, and strategies is disputed in the NETSM literature. Considering both aspects, the paper evaluates Yellow Vests' success in bridging two underrepresented groups inclined to radicalisation. The study rests on 77 interviews with young-adult French citizens who support Radical Right movements (n=40) or self-identify as Muslim in the public sphere of Paris and Lyon (n=37). I argue that Yellow Vests' baseline arguments (e.g., against the pension reform and tax hikes) were precise enough to be shared by our interlocutors. Meanwhile, our interlocutors left the group boundaries sufficiently imprecise so that the movement could reach beyond their parochial identities. Bringing the two features together, the movement opened up new (e.g., class-based) radicalisation possibilities other than those relying on the Islamist and nativist vocabularies. After analysing this combination of precision and imprecision in the context of several unresolved problems, I conclude that the movement's vulnerability emanates from its failure to refine the combination that initially symbolised a shared future imagination.
In search of an appropriate channel for voicing political concerns: political participation among radicalised youth in Europe
(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, 2023-02-20) Benevento, Ayşenur
This research aims to identify values related to political and civic participation methods among the two groups of radicalised youngsters: native youth who support movements labelled as far-right (N= 122) and migrant-origin self-identified Muslim youth with strong organisational ties with religious communities (N=109) in Germany, Belgium, France, and the Netherlands. The study posits that these these radically aligned youngsters position themselves against politically moderate European citizens, who are less intuitive when making judgements on political affairs comparing to them. Diverging from the unifying European values and hypersensitivities, these youngsters' political reactions are often radical and loud in their safe-to-speak, segregated movements. By using the narrations of the range of mainstream modes of political participation, the current qualitative research asks what appears valuable for the two groups of young people to express their political discontent. Findings revealed that both groups highlighted similar values regarding voting. Self-identified Muslim youth stressed the importance of volunteering and street protests (despite not having participated in one). Many native youths, on the other hand, stressed the function of unlawful behaviour in street protests to pursue political objectives. The findings such as these are discussed considering the group differences.
Türkiye’den Avrupa’ya gençlik araştırmaları: işsizlik, göç, dijitalleşme ve aktivizm
(İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2023-05-20) Balatlıoğulları, Didem
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Beyond the continuum: contrasting images from violent and non violent radicalization
(İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi, 2022-11) Koca, Metin
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The Renaissance of Remote Places: MATILDE Manifesto
(Routledge, 2022-06-13) Membretti, Andrea; Dax, Thomas; Krasteva, Anna
With a particular attention to remote places and marginalised territories, this book provides a conceptualisation of the role of internal and international migration to the local development and resilience of the rural and mountain regions of Europe. The book is a collective effort produced by the international and multi-disciplinary network of the Horizon 2020 project MATILDE. In declaring a public and trans-regional position – in the form of a Manifesto for the renaissance of remote places - the book contributes to a new narrative about migration and rural/mountain territories for the future of the entire continent. Mobilizing new data and scientific-based information, the book calls for putting remote regions and their inhabitants at the core of innovative policies at local, regional, national and EU levels. An important resource for researchers, students and policymakers in human and population geography, rural studies, migration studies, social and political sciences.
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(İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi, 2021) Kaya, Ayhan; Onursal Beşgül, Özge
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(İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi, 2020) Kaya, Ayhan; Onursal Beşgül, Özge
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(İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi, 2019) Kaya, Ayhan; Onursal Beşgül, Özge
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(İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi, 2018) Kaya, Ayhan; Atamer, Yeşim M.
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(İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi, 2017) Kaya, Ayhan; Atamer, Yeşim M.
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(İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi, 2016) Atamer, Yeşim M.; Onursal Beşgül, Özge
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(İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi, 2015) Kaya, Ayhan; Atamer, Yeşim M.
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(İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi, 2014) Kaya, Ayhan; Özdemir, Durmuş; Atamer, Yeşim M.
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(İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi, 2013) Kaya, Ayhan; Özdemir, Durmuş; Atamer, Yeşim M.
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(İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi, 2012) Kaya, Ayhan; Özdemir, Durmuş; Atamer, Yeşim M.
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(İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi, 2011) Kaya, Ayhan; Özdemir, Durmuş; Atamer, Yeşim M.
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(İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi, 2010) Kaya, Ayhan; Özdemir, Durmuş; Atamer, Yeşim M.
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(İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi, 2009) Kaya, Ayhan; Özdemir, Durmuş; Atamer, Yeşim M.
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