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 13676261

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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. © 2023 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: Cited by: 2
Uncontrolled Keywords: adolescent; adult; adulthood; article; conflict; female; human; human experiment; husband; ideology; Indonesia; interview; juvenile; male; marriage; married person; Muslim; narrative; negotiation; wife
Subjects: H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
Divisions: Faculty of Political and Social Sciences > Social Development and Welfare
Depositing User: Yuli Hesti Wahyuningsih
Date Deposited: 23 Sep 2024 03:50
Last Modified: 23 Sep 2024 03:50
URI: https://ir.lib.ugm.ac.id/id/eprint/7421

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