Domesticating Youth : : Youth Bulges and their Socio-political Implications in Tajikistan / / Sophie Roche.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Roche, Sophie,
• MitwirkendeR: Schlee, Günther,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Integration and Conflict Studies ; 8
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (292 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Figures and Tables --; Foreword --; Acknowledgements --; Notes on Transliteration and Usage --; Introduction: Youth (Bulges) and Conflict --; 1 Placing the Field Sites in Their Context: A Demographic History --; 2 ‘Why Didn’t You Take a Side?’: The Emergence of Youth Categories, Institutions and Groups --; 3 ‘Siblings Are as Different as the Five Fingers of a Hand’: The Developmental Cycle of Domestic Groups and Siblingship --; 4 ‘The Gift of Youth’: Workers, Religious Actors and Migrants --; 5 ‘The Only Thing in Life that Makes You Feel Like a King’: Marriage as an Indicator of Social and Demographic Change --; 6 ‘Youth Are Our Future’: Categories, Groups and the State --; Conclusion: The Dynamics of Youth Bulges as a Question of Domestication --; Appendix --; Glossary --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781782382638; 9783110998238
• DOI: 10.1515/9781782382638
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Sophie Roche.

Most of the Muslim societies of the world have entered a demographic transition from high to low fertility, and this process is accompanied by an increase in youth vis-à-vis other age groups. Political scientists and historians have debated whether such a “youth bulge” increases the potential for conflict or whether it represents a chance to accumulate wealth and push forward social and technological developments. This book introduces the discussion about youth bulge into social anthropology using Tajikistan, a post-Soviet country that experienced civil war in the 1990s, which is in the middle of such a demographic transition. Sophie Roche develops a social anthropological approach to analyze demographic and political dynamics, and suggests a new way of thinking about social change in youth bulge societies.