Geographies of Muslim identities : diaspora, gender and belonging / edited by Cara Aitchison, Peter Hopkins and Mei-Po Kwan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aitchison, Cara.

Hopkins, Peter (Peter E.)

Kwan, Mei-po.

Series:

Re-materialising cultural geography

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Muslims--Non-Islamic countries.

Muslims.

Non-Islamic countries.

Ethnicity.

Islamophobia.

Women in Islam.

Physical Description:

x, 208 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2007.

Contents:

Ch. 1. Introduction : geographies of Muslim identities / Peter E. Hopkins, Mei-Po Kwan and Cara Carmichael Aitchison

Ch. 2. Beyond the mosque : Turkish immigrants and the practice and politics of islam in Duisburg-Marxloh, Germany / Patricia Ehrkamp

Ch. 3. Visible minorities : constructing and deconstructing the 'Muslim Iranian' diaspora / Cameron McAuliffe

Ch. 4. The other within the same : some aspects of Scottish-Pakistani identity in suburban Glasgow / Sadiq Mir

Ch. 5. Migration and the construction of Muslim women's identity in Northern Ireland / Gabriele Marranci

Ch. 6. Reconstructing 'Muslimness' : new bodies in urban Indonesia / Sonja van Wichelen

Ch. 7. Safe and risky spaces : gender, ethnicity and culture in the leisure lives of young South Asian women / Eileen Green and Carrie Singleton

Ch. 8. Daughters of Islam, sisters in sport / Tess Kay

Ch. 9. Cultural Muslims : the evolution of Muslim identity in Soviet and post-Soviet Central Asia / William C. Rowe

Ch. 10. Islam and national development : a cross-cultural comparison of the role of religion in the process of economic development and cultural change / Samuel Zalanga

Ch. 11. Young Muslim men's experiences of local landscapes after 11 September 2001

Peter E. Hopkins.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0754648885

9780754648888

OCLC:

78893171