Mediated Muslim Cosmopolitanism

Mohamad examines the day-to-day experience of virtual and non-tangible mobilities of young Bruneian Malay Muslim and Malaysians, as enabled by popular culture and digital media. Scholars in geography, sociology, and youth studies will find this book invaluable for its insights into cosmopolitanism and contemporary Southeast Asia.

Siti Mazidah Mohamad is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) at Universiti Brunei Darussalam. She researched Muslim youth culture and engagements with popular culture and new media in Southeast Asia focusing on mobilities, everyday sociöspatial affective engagements, practices, and realities of young people reflected through various new social media platforms. She has published in numerous prestigious academic journals.

Preface 1. Introduction 2. Framing Mediated Muslim Cosmopolitanism 3. Exploring Mediated Muslim Cosmopolitanism: Analytical Tools and Youth Digital Engagements 4. Muslim Youths' Cosmopolitan Sensibilities and Performance 5. Everyday Lived Islam, Religiosities, and Hijab Practices 6. Cosmopolitan Consciousness, Civic Imagination and Digital Activism in Brunei 7. Mediated Muslim Cosmopolitanism and Muslim Youth Culture References, Index