Youth movements and transformations of the political: Bangladesh and Senegal in transregional comparison

自2000年代中期以来，可以观察到国际抗议活动的蓬勃发展，这些抗议活动利用了新的政治形式。在全球南方的社会中，青年运动是这些抗议活动的最重要的主角，这些抗议活动往往与最近的经济和政治发展有关，但有时并不具体提出自己的要求，而是强调民间社会行为者的多元化。正如在阿拉伯起义中所看到的那样，很难用一个单一的公式来描述各个国家既定的社会秩序和政治文化的后果。现有的研究对青年运动抗议活动所导致的政治文化转型仍然很缺乏。拟议的项目试图纠正这一缺陷，解决两个穆斯林国家（孟加拉国和塞内加尔）的青年运动如何重组现有政治文化以及它们对这些文化的转变有何影响的问题。拟议的项目旨在通过经验阐明两国青年运动如何使用伊斯兰教和世俗主义以及传统性和现代性的提法，以及他们在多大程度上明确提出赞成和反对的立场。在抗议的背景下，对政治的重新定义与新媒体的使用有关，这也将受到审查。从理论上讲，该项目借鉴了社会学对社会运动以及文化，媒体和发展社会学的研究。对两个不同穆斯林社会的两个青年运动进行比较，将有助于确定南方政治变革的总体结构，也有助于更好地了解该地区青年移徙的动机。

Since the mid-2000s, an international boom of protest can observed that has made use of new forms of the political. In the societies of the Global South, youth movements are the most important protagonists of these protests, which are often related to recent economic and political developments, yet sometimes do not specifically formulate their demands, but rather highlight the plurality of civil society actors. As could be seen in the Arab Uprisings, the consequences for the established social orders and political cultures of the respective countries can hardly be captured in a single formula. Existing research on the transformation of political culture resulting from youth movement protests is still scarce. The proposed project attempts at rectifying this deficiency by addressing the question of how youth movements in two Muslim countries (Bangladesh and Senegal) restructure the existing political cultures and what effects they have on their transformation. The proposed project intends to clarify empirically how youth movements in the two countries use references to Islam and secularism as well as traditionality and modernity, and to what extent they formulate clear for and against positions. The redefinition of the political in the context of the protest is connected to the use of new media that will equally be examined. Theoretically, the project draws on sociological research on social movements as well as on cultural, media, and developmental sociology. The comparison of two youth movements in two different Muslim societies will allow the identification of general structures of political transformation in the South, which also leads to a better understanding of the motives for migration of the youth from this region.