| This PhD project focuses on how youth of the intermediate classes creatively construct solidarities, affiliations, and aspirations with respect to several important sociological dimensions, notably religion, gender, and ethnicity in the provincial capital of Ternate, North Maluku. A crucial aspect of the project is to identify and investigate the range of contexts where gendered youth solidarities are constructed from the more institutionalized contexts of religious and ethnic organizations to recreational forms of association like sports or competitions that test everything from marching to Koran recitation. Besides institionalized settings, the project explores non-institutionalized settings where young people informally gather and hang out. The project homes in on the sociological dimensions of religion, gender, and ethnicity across a selection of different youth settings from the more formal and institutional to the less regulated and ad hoc with the aim of ascertaining which among these have priority and how they figure within the construction of youth solidarities. |
