Entangled histories of place and reconfigurations of diasporic home: Al‐Andalus history and the Moroccan diaspora in Granada, Spain

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Social geography III: Emotions and affective spatialities

“…A body of research has focused on how emotional representations of nationhood are used by states or representatives of the state to invoke political belonging and pride toward the nation (e.g. Finlay, 2021; Yarwood et al, 2021; Sysiö, 2022), thereby enacting territorial or extraterritorial reach (Ho, 2009). Lyons’ (2018) research on British Muslim women further demonstrates the scalar connections tying the cultural symbolism of the headscarf with the home spaces in which the women can freely express their religious and diasporic identities, compared to their feelings of non-belonging in Britain.…”