Negotiating Absence and Presence: Rural Muslims and ‘Subterranean’ Sacred Spaces

Jones, Rhys

doi:10.1080/13562576.2012.733572

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“…People and things can fail to have an interpersonal impact, for instance, despite their corporeal presence. Geographers have detected this phenomenon in prison visiting (Moran & Disney, 2019), Muslims' (in)visibility in Wales (Jones, 2012), and migrants' political agency in Sweden (Sigvardsdotter, 2013), showing how functional absence is possible despite physical, visible presence via mechanisms of silencing, side-lining, overlooking, and underestimating.…”

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What’s missing from legal geography and materialist studies of law? Absence and the assembling of asylum appeal hearings in Europe

Gill

Allsopp

Burridge

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Trans Inst British Geog

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There is an absence of absence in legal geography and materialist studies of the law. Drawing on a multi-sited ethnography of European asylum appeal hearings, this paper illustrates the importance of absences for a fully-fledged materiality of legal events. We show how absent materials impact hearings, that non-attending participants profoundly influence them, and that even when participants are physically present, they are often simultaneously absent in other, psychological registers. In so doing we demonstrate the importance and productivity of thinking not only about law's omnipresence but also the absences that shape the way law is experienced and practised. We show that attending to the distribution of absence and presence at legal hearings is a way to critically engage with legal performance.

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What’s missing from legal geography and materialist studies of law? Absence and the assembling of asylum appeal hearings in Europe

Gill

Allsopp

Burridge

et al. 2020

Trans Inst British Geog

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“…Despite evident connections with space, power and inequalities, hiding is still little explored by human geographers. Geographic research has been conducted on the exclusion, absence and invisibility of marginalised groups, such as religious minorities (Jones, 2012;Jones et al 2012), prisoners (Drozdzewski, 2012) and missing people (Parr & Fyfe, 2012;Parr et al 2015;Stevenson et al 2016). These geographies are useful in approaching hiding: their focus on 'embodied absence' and their attention to the 'spatial politics that […] absence produces and is produced by' (Parr & Fyfe, 2012, p. 634) opens up doors for investigation.…”

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Geographies of hiding: power, vulnerability and agency in secret spaces

Gavard‐Suaire

2020

Geography Compass

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This article explores situations of forced hiding that affect migrants and sex workerstwo groups regularly pushed out of site or out of sight. It argues that hiding is an important angle through which geographies of exclusion and abandonment can be approached. The first part of the paper uncovers the governance of hiding patterns, showing how stigmatised groups can be pushed to hide. The paper reveals that it is their right to appear as political actors that is under attack, not their mere visibility or physical presence. The second part focuses on the agentic potential that survives while people are hiding, highlighting how they negotiate the conditions of their truncated presence. Both sections show that hiding needs to be addressed distinctly from other forms of invisibility and absence, and underline the importance of uncovering geographies of hiding to understand how power is inconspicuously negotiated at different scales.

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University Challenges: Negotiating Secularism and Religiosity in Higher Education Institutions

Jones

2014

Environ Plan A

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While geographers' examinations of religion and secularism have emphasized identity politics of faith in everyday life, little attention has been paid to intuitional politics and historical approaches to religious accommodation. Such historical approaches are critical to understanding contemporary religious service provision outside metropolitan areas, where minority faiths typically depend on the 'goodwill' of institutions. This paper examines campaigns to establish a mosque at a secular British university in the 1980s and 1990s, highlighting the different visions for the project: a sacred space for communal worship and a resource to attract lucrative international students. It highlights how notions of hospitality towards international students were emphasized to circumvent concerns that the university's secular status would be damaged by such a development. The paper concludes by considering questions on the role of hospitality in accommodating diversity.

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Negotiating Absence and Presence: Rural Muslims and ‘Subterranean’ Sacred Spaces

Cited by 11 publications

References 41 publications

What’s missing from legal geography and materialist studies of law? Absence and the assembling of asylum appeal hearings in Europe

What’s missing from legal geography and materialist studies of law? Absence and the assembling of asylum appeal hearings in Europe

Geographies of hiding: power, vulnerability and agency in secret spaces

University Challenges: Negotiating Secularism and Religiosity in Higher Education Institutions

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