muslim geographies: current trends and future directions
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Muslim Geographies: current trends and future directions. Peter Hopkins School of Geography, Politics and Sociology Newcastle University UK NE17RU [email protected]. Residential segregation …. Cultural geographies of the city. Gender relations and identities. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Muslim Geographies: current trends and future
directions
Peter Hopkins
School of Geography, Politics and SociologyNewcastle University UK [email protected]
Residential segregation …
Cultural geographies of the city
Gender relations and identities
Critical geopolitics and everyday lives
Households, families and relationships
• What about the economic and cultural management of Muslim homespaces?
• What about Islamic intergenerational relations, Muslim lifecourses and Muslim parenting?
• What are the emotional geographies of Muslim family life?
Nations, regions and territories
• What about connections between different territories in terms of religious identities, experiences of migration, and accounts of resettlement.
• What about national or regional variations in the practice of Islam and the experiences of Muslims?
• Influence of national/regional government policy and processes of normalisation?
Intersections, interactions and inequalities
• What about the intersectionality of Muslim identities with other social identities?
• What might a geography of inter-faith studies look like?
• What are the geographical inequalities experienced by Muslims in different places at different times?
Researching Muslim Geographies
• What about the possibilities offered by mixed methods (particularly involving quantitative and qualitative work)?
• What might participatory action research approaches and methods (Kindon, Pain and Kesby, 2007) add to Muslim Geographies?
• What are the ethics of doing Muslim Geographies?
Muslim Geographies: current trends and future
directions
Peter Hopkins
School of Geography, Politics and SociologyNewcastle University UK [email protected]