Ephemeral utopia

Aesthetics of the self and the community on the Syrian journey

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ID2230401
AuthorsH Esmili (0009-0003-8001-2959, KU Leuven), Montassir Sakhi (0000-0002-3128-7732, KU Leuven)
Year2024
Volume14
Issue3
Pages702-718
Publication date2024-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHau Journal of Ethnographic Theory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2049-1115 • E-ISSN: 2575-1433
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/733024
OpenAlexW4404368000
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited24

This article examines the flux and reflux of commitment to jihad among immigrants to Syria. Contrary to a linear and often teleological view of commitment to jihad-radical individuals joining the most radical contemporary organization-migration to Syria involved much uncertainty, including both the circumstances for leaving and the phases that punctuated the migration. By studying this form of commitment to jihad through the double prism of its founding ideals and their historical outcomes, the successive and sometimes concurrent thematizations of jihad can be examined for those who attributed an existential meaning to it. Adopting a viewpoint based on the sociology of knowledge, we aim to show that commitment to jihad is a utopian surge, in Karl Mannheim's sense of the expression, and a realization in the here and now of moral tendencies underlying the emigrants' social ethos

Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Computer security · Ephemeral key · Utopia · Computer Science · Middle East Politics and Society

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