Muslims in Britain (eBook, PDF)

Race, Place and Identities
Redaktion: Hopkins, Peter; Gale, Richard

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Produktbeschreibung

Following the events of 11th September 2001 in the USA, and more especially, the bombings on the London underground on 7th July 2005 and the incident at Glasgow Airport on 30th June 2007, an increasing amount of public attention has been focused upon Muslims in Britain. Against the backdrop of this debate, this book sets out a series of innovative insights into the everyday lives of Muslims living in contemporary Britain, in an attempt to move beyond prevalent stereotypes concerning what it means to be ''Muslim''.

Combining original empirical research with theoretical interventions, this collection offers a range of reflections on how Muslims in Britain negotiate their everyday lives, manage experiences of racism and exclusion, and develop local networks and global connections. The authors explore a broad range of themes including gender relations; educational and economic issues; migration and mobility; religion and politics; racism and Islamophobia; and the construction and contestation of Muslim identities. Threaded through the treatment of these themes is a unifying concern with the ways in which geography matters to how Muslims negotiate their daily experiences as well as their racialised, gendered and religious identities. Above all, attention is focused upon the role of the home and local community, the influence of the economy and the nation, and the power of transnational connections and mobilities in the everyday lives of Muslims in Britain.

Includes contributions from: Louise Archer, Yahya Birt, Sophie Bowlby, Claire Dwyer, Richard Gale, Peter Hopkins, Lily Kong, Sally Lloyd-Evans, Sean McLoughlin, Sharmina Mawani, Tariq Modood, Anjoom Mukadam, Caroline Nagel, Deborah Phillips, Bindi Shah, and Lynn Staeheli

Key Features

• Draws on theoretically-informed empirical research
• Brings together work with a focus on gender studies with research on landscapes, communities and networks
• Explores issues including gender relations, political activism, local communities, migration and the labour market
• Chapters are united by an overarching concern with the ways in which geography matters to how Muslims negotiate their daily experiences as well as their racialised, gendered and religious identities

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748631230
• Artikelnr.: 42372159

Autorenporträt

Edited by Peter Hopkins and Richard Gale

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Muslims in Britain, Peter Hopkins (University of
Lancaster) and Richard Gale (University of Birmingham); Section 1: Gender,
Place and Culture; 2. Creating Home-Spaces: Young British Muslim Women's
Identity and Conceptualisation of Home, Deborah Phillips (University of
Leeds); 3. 'You Seem Very Westernised to Me': Place, Identity and Othering
of Muslim Workers in the UK Labour Market, Sophie Bowlby and Sally
Lloyd-Evans (University of Reading); 4. Rethinking the Identities of Young
British Pakistani Muslim Women: Educational Experiences and Aspirations,
Claire Dwyer and Bindi Shah (University College London); 5. Race, 'Face'
and Masculinity: The Identities and Local Geographies of Muslim Boys,
Louise Archer (Kings College London); Section 2: Landscapes, Communities
and Networks; 6. British Arab Perspectives on Religion, Politics and 'the
Public', Caroline Nagel (University of South Carolina) and Lynn Staeheli
(University of Edinburgh); 7. The Multicultural City and the Politics of
Religious Architecture: Urban Planning, Mosques and Meaning-Making in
Birmingham, Richard Gale (University of Birmingham); 8. Holy Places,
Contested Spaces: British-Pakistani Accounts of Pilgrimage to Makkah and
Medinah, Sean McLoughlin (University of Leeds); 9. Excess Baggage or
Precious Gems? The Migration of Cultural Commodoties, Anjoom Mukadam and
Sharmina Mawani (Ismaili Studies Institute, London); Section 3: Religion,
Race and Difference; 10. Situating Muslim Geographies: Theory and Praxis,
Lily Kong (National University of Singapore); 11. Muslims and the Politics
of Difference, Tariq Modood (University of Bristol); 12. Islamophobia in
the Construction of British Muslim Identity Politics, Jonathan Birt
(Islamic Foundation, UK); Afterword, Peter Hopkins and Richard Gale.