From Revolutionaries to Muslims: Liminal Becomings across Palestinian Generations in Denmark

作者: Anja Kublitz

DOI: 10.1017/S0020743815001476

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摘要: Exploring generational changes and continuities among Palestinian families in Denmark, this article investigates why the children of fidāᵓīn (fighters) many themselves have turned their backs on secular politics embraced Islam. The Palestinians who arrived Denmark from Lebanon wake Lebanese Civil War were members Liberation Organization known as generation revolution ( jīl al-thawra ). Extending Karl Mannheim's approach to generations, I argue that order explain transition revolutionaries Muslims we can rely neither genealogy nor historical context alone, but need pay equal attention structural crosscut generations. suggest rather than conceive oppositions, should think them substitutions, liminal becomings are actualized across