Stubborn identities and the construction of socio‐spatial boundaries: ultra‐orthodox Jews living in contemporary Britain

Valins, Oliver

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“…Originally for her these identities, particularly the corporate identity, were bounded and stable (Valins, 2003). In making initial comparisons between her former position and her current situation, she did feel that the latter did not have the same type of gravitas (eg working at home as opposed to working in a corporate office) as her senior management position had.…”

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Developing an Entrepreneurial Identity

Lewis

2004

The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation

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Section: Identity Workmentioning

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Developing an Entrepreneurial Identity

Lewis

2004

The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation

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“…for people's identity, and the spatial behaviour of believers including occasional conflicts with the political administration. Religious "(cultural) landscapes" on different scales and their symbols are also being looked into by the following studies: Graham (1994Graham ( , 1998, Macdonald (2002), Nagar (1997), Naylor/Ryan (2002), Palmer (2002), Raivo (1997Raivo ( , 2002, Sahr (2001), Valins (2000Valins ( , 2003 and Vincent/Warf (2002). They all in a way follow the thoughts of Tuan (1978) which belong into the tradition of humanistic geography.…”

Section: The Place Of Religions In Geographymentioning

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Geography of Religion – Rediscovering a Subdiscipline

Henkel¹

2005

Hrv. geogr. glas.

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Review Pregledni članakIn many parts of the world, the significance of religion has increased during the last years and decades. In the sociology of religion, the secularization thesis was the dominant framework for the interpretation of developments in the realm of religion for a long time. Meanwhile, other explanation patterns have become more prominent, such as the individualization thesis and economic theories. The so-called "spatial turn" does not seem to have reached sociology of religion yet. In history of religion (religious studies), however, questions of spatiality and locality are being studied intensively.Geography of religion has been regarded a diverse and incoherent field until recently. In the past years this has changed. Two directions of research have become apparent. One of them mainly considers social geographical problems and methods while the other has been influenced by the new cultural geography approach. Both should more frequently work with the above mentioned theoretical approaches of sociology of religion. Geography of religion must not, however, lose track of its main goal: it always has to point to the fact that all religious processes take place in space and have a spatial dimension.Key words: Geography of religion, spatial turn, sociology of religion, religious science Geografija religije -ponovno otkrivanje znanstvene subdisciplinePosljednjih desetljeća u mnogim dijelovima svijeta poraslo je značenje religije. U sociologiji religije sekularizacija je dugo vremena bila dominantno okvirno načelo za tumačenje razvoja religije. U međuvremenu dolaze do izražaja i drugi obrasci tumačenja, kao što su teza o individualizaciji i ekonomske teorije. Takozvani "prostorni obrat" ("spatial turn") izgleda da još nije zahvatio sociologiju religije. Međutim, pitanja prostornosti i mjesta vrlo se intenzivno proučavaju kroz povijest religije (religijski studiji).Geografija religije donedavno se smatrala raznolikim i nepovezanim područjem. Posljednjih godina to se izmijenilo. Uočavaju se dva smjera istraživanja. Jedan se, uglavnom, bavi socijalno-geografskim problemima i metodama, dok je drugi pod utjecajem novog pristupa kulturne geografije. Oba bi češće trebala koristiti gore spomenute teorijske pristupe sociologije religije. Međutim, geografija religije ne smije izgubiti iz vidokruga svoj glavni cilj: uvijek treba ukazivati na činjenicu da se svi religijski procesi odvijaju u prostoru i imaju prostornu dimenziju.

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“…For example, Kiryat Joel, a Satmer 3 town in New York State, was established in the 1970s at a distance of 70km from the city centre, to protect the residents from 'external influences' and allow the children to grow up away from the influence of drugs and crime (Mintz, 1994). This geographical isolation created the 'shtetl type' of life, free from the immorality and profanity of urban life (Valins, 2003). Using Young's (1998) terminology of 'ideal city life', these communities actually practise the principle of 'living together as strangers', which means to live as part of modern life but as a separate group.…”

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“…In Manchester they consist of 90% of the city's Jewish community. There they express their needs for segregation and the marking of clear boundaries between themselves and the rest of the 'world' (Valins, 2003). However, this does not include control over women's clothing, but of living in homogeneous communities as an act of security.…”

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“…7 But as Valins (2003) argues, the construction of such boundaries, although not so visible, within the context of modern or post-modern urban spaces and the surrounding secular population makes the determination of such practices politically and religiously fraught. This is especially so among the secular Jews who fear that such boundaries would create a Jewish ghetto similar to those before the Second World War.…”

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Identity Issues and Local Governance: Women's Everyday Life in the City

Fenster

2005

Social Identities

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This paper universalizes a particular dilemma. It presents a localized case of the appropriation and 'privatization' of urban public spaces in ultra orthodox communities in the Mea Shearim neighbourhood of Jerusalem in the name of religious identity. The basic dilemma that this paper ponders relates to the localized case presented: whether such a situation, which denies secular women's rights to some public parts of the city, can also be accepted as an expression of the daily religious practices of a distinct community. The first reaction of feminists to such exclusionary practices in the city might be negative, but discussing such issues in depth reveals the different meanings and implications of such situations that force one to deal with the sometimes contradictory meanings of the right to the city, and the contrasts inherent between these meanings. These dilemmas become more and more apparent in multi-ethnicized, multi-sacredized and multinationalized global urban spaces and will be part of the city governance's daily occupation, as diversity becomes an increasingly important issue in new global spaces. This paper universalizes a particular dilemma. It presents a localized case of the appropriation and 'privatization' of urban public spaces in ultra orthodox communities in the Mea Shearim neighbourhood of Jerusalem in the name of religious identity. This action of secralization of the neighbourhood public spaces challenges and in fact may be seen as denying secular women's rights to use the city's spaces in that it constructs the neighbourhood as a modesty gated area. This is a localized example of universalized realities in multi-religious, multi-cultural and multi-ethnic urban spaces which have become homes for the extensive flows of trans-migrants who transform urban spaces into places of shared identity. The paper discusses a much broader reality in global urban spaces today where these multiple ethnicities, cultures and nationalities inhabit and appropriate the same public spaces sometimes in ways that other individuals and communities might find abusive. I discuss this universal phenomenon by focusing on the discourse between the individual right to

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Stubborn identities and the construction of socio‐spatial boundaries: ultra‐orthodox Jews living in contemporary Britain

Cited by 64 publications

References 31 publications

Developing an Entrepreneurial Identity

Developing an Entrepreneurial Identity

Geography of Religion – Rediscovering a Subdiscipline

Identity Issues and Local Governance: Women's Everyday Life in the City

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