Gendered youth transitions in local jihad in Indonesia: negotiating agency in arranged marriage

Azca, Muhammad Najib and Putri, Rani Dwi and Nilan, Pam (2023) Gendered youth transitions in local jihad in Indonesia: negotiating agency in arranged marriage. JOURNAL OF YOUTH STUDIES. ISSN 1367-6261

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Abstract

In accounts of local Islamist jihad, little attention has been directed to how young women exercise agency when they face arranged marriages with jihadi fighters. They undergo a different kind of life transition, one that has rarely been examined in youth studies. This paper reports on a study of how young female Muslims in arranged marriages with mujahidin men navigated their transitions to adulthood in Eastern Indonesia. The study employed an ethnographic approach, including live-in observation and interviews. The data was analysed using a biographical narrative approach. We found that some young local women were married off to previously unknown mujahidin men. As the Muslim-Christian conflict raged around them, they navigated their roles of wife and mother while embedded in a jihadi network justified by Islamist ideology. Later, following the arrest of their husbands, they gained some agency and asserted a more independent adulthood by actively shaping their own life trajectories. The analysis extends our broader knowledge of (female) youth transitions in civil conflict situations in the Global South.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Youth transitions, female Muslims, local jihad, Eastern Indonesia
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
Divisions: Faculty of Political and Social Sciences > Sociology
Depositing User: Sri JUNANDI
Date Deposited: 31 Oct 2024 07:29
Last Modified: 31 Oct 2024 07:29
URI: https://ir.lib.ugm.ac.id/id/eprint/10114

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