Thu, 9 April 2009, 3pm to 4.30pm | English

AS1, National University of Singapore

NUS Sociology Department

Associate Professor Gabriele Marranci

Lectures

Associate Professor Gabriele Marranci, from a comparative approach, will discuss the experiences of young Muslims in the UK and Singapore who are seeking their own identities.

Although the UK and Singapore have very different Muslim populations, with the majority of young Muslims in the UK being of South Asian origin while the majority in Singapore are Malay, his research has highlighted interesting similarities. This is particularly true in the case of the generation gap and what he refers to as ‘global perils', some of which are common to all young people today, but others that are very specific to the Muslim population in a post 9/11 context.

Location: Sociology Seminar Room (AS1 #02-12)

About the Speaker:
Gabriele Marranci is an anthropologist by training, working on religion with a specialisation in Muslim societies. His main research interests concern identity, Muslim migration/immigration, urban sociology, globalization, fundamentalism, political Islam, secularisation processes, criminology and anthropology of music. He has widely published in these subjects. He is Visiting Senior Research Fellow at ARI, and the co-founder of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Muslim Societies at University of Western Sydney. A/P Marranci is the founding editor of the Springer journal Contemporary Islam: Dynamics of Muslim Life, as well the book series Muslims in Global Societies (Springer). His research has been published both in leading international peer-reviewed journals and edited books and he is also the author of four monographs, among which The Anthropology of Islam (Berg) and Faith, Ideology and Fear: Muslim Identities within and Beyond Prisons (Continuum).

AS1, National University of Singapore