Sophie Roche 
Domesticating Youth [EPUB ebook] 
Youth Bulges and their Socio-political Implications in Tajikistan

List of Maps, Figures and Tables

Foreword: The Construction of Life Phases and Some Facts of Life
Günther Schlee

Acknowledgements
Notes on Transliteration and Usage

Introduction: Youth (Bulge) and Conflict

Chapter 1. Placing the Field Sites in Their Context – A Demographic History
Chapter 2. ‘Why Didn’t You Take a Side?’ –The Emergence of Youth Categories, Institutions and Groups
Chapter 3. ‘Siblings are as Different as the Five Fingers of a Hand’ – Developmental Cycle of Domestic Groups and Siblingship
Chapter 4. ‘The Gift of Youth’ – Workers, Religious Actors and Migrants
Chapter 5. ‘The only Thing in Life that Makes you Feel like a King’ – Marriage as an Indicator of Social and Demographic Changes
Chapter 6. ‘Youth are our Future’ – The State’s Youth Categories Challenged by Youth

Conclusion: The Dynamics of Youth Bulge as a Question of Domestication

Appendix
Glossary of Selected Terms
Bibliography
Index

Sophie Roche is currently leading the junior research group “The Demographic Turn in the Junction of Cultures” at the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context” at the University of Heidelberg. She worked at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Germany and received her Ph D from this University Halle-Wittenberg. She then joined the Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin in 2010 with a project on jihad in text and context, an ethnographic approach. She has extensive ethnographic experiences in Tajikistan and in Russia among Migrants for Central Asia.