The Geographies of Everyday Muslim Life in the West

Dunn, Kevin; Hopkins, Peter

doi:10.1080/00049182.2016.1191138

Cited by 24 publications

(15 citation statements)

References 14 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Johnston, Poulsen, and Forrest 2007), the spatialities of ethnic and racial identities (e.g., Ehrkamp 2008), and the significance and influence of whiteness (e.g., Kobayashi and Peake 2000;Vanderbeck 2006;Faria and Mollett 2016;Inwood and Bonds 2016). In the last couple of decades, we have witnessed an increasing interest in matters of faith among geographers who research issues of race and ethnicity, with most work here exploring the geographies of Muslim identities (e.g., Dwyer, Shah, and Sanghera 2008;Hopkins and Gale 2009;Gokariksel and Secor 2012;Mansson McGinty 2012;Dunn and Hopkins 2016). There is now some evidence of research in this area diversifying to include other minority faith groups (e.g., Mills 2012Mills , 2015Hopkins 2014).…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Encountering Misrecognition: Being Mistaken for Being Muslim

Hopkins

Botterill

Sanghera

et al. 2017

Annals of the American Association of Geographers

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Exploring both debates about misrecognition and explorations of encounters, this article focuses on the experiences of ethnic and religious minority young people who are mistaken for being Muslim in Scotland. We explore experiences of encountering misrecognition, including young people's understandings of, and responses to, such encounters. Recognizing how racism and religious discrimination operate to marginalize people-and how people manage and respond to this-is crucial in the struggle for social justice. Our focus is on young people from a diversity of ethnic and religious minority groups who are growing up in urban, suburban, and rural Scotland, 382 of whom participated in forty-five focus groups and 224 interviews. We found that young Sikhs, Hindus, and other south Asian young people as well as black and Caribbean young people were regularly mistaken for being Muslim. These encounters tended to take place at school, in taxis, at the airport, and in public spaces. Our analysis points to a dynamic set of interconnected issues shaping young people's experiences of misrecognition across a range of mediatized, geopoliticized, and educational spaces. Geopolitical events and their representation in the media, the homogenization of the south "Asian" community, and the lack of visibility offered to non-Muslim ethnic and religious minority groups all worked to construct our participants as "Muslims." Young people demonstrated agency and creativity in handling and responding to these encounters, including using humor, clarifying their religious affiliation, social withdrawal, and ignoring the situation. Redressing misrecognition requires institutional change to ensure parity of participation in society.

show abstract

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Encountering Misrecognition: Being Mistaken for Being Muslim

Hopkins

Botterill

Sanghera

et al. 2017

Annals of the American Association of Geographers

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Anti-Muslim sentiment has manifested in various ways, including distorted political discourses problematising Muslims as a threat to national security (Mythen and Walklate 2015), disproportionate forms of policing and surveillance (Nabulsi 2017) and unwarranted referral of Muslims to Prevent counter-radicalisation panels (Qurashi 2018). These problematic institutional policies have materialised alongside steep rises in racially motivated hate crimes (see Burnett 2016;Casciani 2018) and widespread reporting of routine forms of harassment, exclusion and victimisation experienced by Muslims in public spaces (Dunn and Hopkins 2016;Mythen et al 2013). Aside from documenting specific forms of prejudice against Muslims, there is a wealth of literature recording the pernicious and deleterious impacts of Islamophobia (Abbas 2020;Allen 2020;Kundnani 2015).…”

Section: Setting the Context: Exclusion Stereotyping And Islamophobiamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In as much as cherry picking and strategic adaption enable opportunities for choice and reflexive decision making, the final two processes to be excavated-ambassadorship and active resistance-correspond with the cultural climate of Islamophobia in Britain and the processes of securitisation to which young Muslims in particular have been subjected to during their formative socialisation (see Mythen et al 2013;Dunn and Hopkins 2016). In contrast to strategic adaption, a third approach to managing challenges in the public sphere discussed by participants was that of 'ambassadorship'.…”

Section: Imparting Islam: Ambassadorshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

Performing Hybridity or Deflecting Islamophobia? Adaptable Identity Management amongst Young British Pakistani Muslims

Khan

Mythen

2021

Social Sciences

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This article engages with issues of identity construction and maintenance as expressed by a group of young British Pakistanis living in the North-West of England. Drawing on primary data from a qualitative study, we examine the ways in which Muslim identities are maintained, negotiated, and protected in relation to everyday situated cultural experiences. Nested within a context in which Islamophobia is pervasive, we discuss four salient processes of identity management articulated by participants: cherry picking; strategic adaption; ambassadorship and active resistance. Whilst these processes are to be considered as porous rather than mutually exclusive, our analysis elucidates evidence of both nimble and creative individual identity management and also an entrenchment of collective pride. We posit that, for the participants in this study, such practices constitute a grounded, pragmatic response to living in an environment in which their religious beliefs, political values and cultural commitments are frequently questioned within public life, the media and the political sphere.

show abstract

“…In the UK, TellMAMA (2018) reported a year-on-year increase in verified anti-Muslim incidents between 2015 and 2017, and in countries such as Hungary, Italy, Poland and Greece, more than 65 per cent of the population have unfavourable views of Muslims living in their country (Lipka, 2017). This all suggests an increasing hostility being shown towards Muslim communities; there is an urgent need to consolidate and extend social geographies of Islamophobia given the increasingly strident and persistently negative nature of this specific form of socio-spatial discrimination (Dunn and Hopkins, 2016).…”

Section: Islamophobiamentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Geography II: Islamophobia, transphobia, and sizism

Hopkins

2019

Progress in Human Geography

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Different forms of discrimination, marginalisation and exclusion have been central concerns for social geography for over 50 years now. Some forms of prejudice are historically resistant, long-lasting and have featured in social geography for many decades (such as racism and sexism); others have emerged more recently within social geography debates as well as in the wider society and are less well understood. In this second progress report on social geography, I explore recent research about Islamophobia, transphobia and sizism that demonstrates that each of these forms of prejudice is worthy of further study and analysis in their own right by social geographers and scholars in related fields. I argue that it would be productive to investigate areas of connection and solidarity across and within these different prejudices and others in order to be able to resist multiple forms of discrimination, intolerance and hate.

show abstract

The Geographies of Everyday Muslim Life in the West

Cited by 24 publications

References 14 publications

Encountering Misrecognition: Being Mistaken for Being Muslim

Encountering Misrecognition: Being Mistaken for Being Muslim

Performing Hybridity or Deflecting Islamophobia? Adaptable Identity Management amongst Young British Pakistani Muslims

Social Geography II: Islamophobia, transphobia, and sizism

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About