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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
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 Sociology
Newcastle University UK NE17RU
[email protected]