Vibrant Mosques: Space, Planning and Informality in Germany

Kuppinger, Petra

doi:10.2148/benv.37.1.78

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“…Despite 60 years of history in German cities, Turkish communities continue to be seen as outsiders within (Çalışkan, 2011; Hinze, 2013), now more on the basis of religion than culture through a conflation of ‘Muslim’, with ‘Turkish’ and/or ‘non-European’ (Ramm, 2010; Yildiz, 2009). This anti-Muslim racism plays a role in Wilhelmsburg’s image as well, where the Muslim population is estimated at 18,000 people (Trautwein, 2014) and the variety of neighbourhood mosques stands as a visible sign of decades of Muslim placemaking (see Kuppinger, 2011).…”

Section: The Experimental Field: Hamburg–wilhelmsburgmentioning

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Experimenting on racialized neighbourhoods: Internationale Bauausstellung Hamburg and the urban laboratory in Hamburg–Wilhelmsburg

Chamberlain

2020

Environ Plan D

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The ‘urban laboratory’ concept has become a popular discourse and structure for urban projects in recent years. In this article, I ask what the concept achieves in the context of racialized urban disinvestment and stigmatization, with the Hamburg International Building Exhibition’s (Internationale Bauausstellung Hamburg, 2006–2013) work in Hamburg–Wilhelmsburg as an example. Drawing on laboratory studies and urban sociology, I sketch out the laboratory as an ‘imaginative infrastructure’ , including what it offers to the ‘investigators’ who use it. Based on the ‘situatedness’ of the urban laboratory, I argue that the racialization of the neighbourhood and its residents is important to the history of Wilhelmsburg’s planning, and to its recent laboratorization. Laboratorization of racialized people and spaces is not new, but rather has a long history in European colonialism. I conclude that though the experiment in Hamburg–Wilhelmsburg appears to be with the neighbourhood’s racialization itself, there is nothing experimental about attempting the planning myth and common sense of ‘social mix’ to which Internationale Bauausstellung Hamburg contributes. I argue that racialized Wilhelmsburgers deserve problem-solving that does not reinforce existing patterns of development and thus their stigmatization.

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Section: The Experimental Field: Hamburg–wilhelmsburgmentioning

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Experimenting on racialized neighbourhoods: Internationale Bauausstellung Hamburg and the urban laboratory in Hamburg–Wilhelmsburg

Chamberlain

2020

Environ Plan D

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“…In the case of Germany, scholarly examinations deal almost exclusively with Turkish business and “ethnic” economies (Ceylan ; Goldberg and Sen ; Hillmann ; Pütz ). These valuable contributions examine the emergence of Turkish “ethnic” economies, shopping streets, and economic enclaves, some of which end up attracting larger numbers of urban and regional customers and visitors (Kuppinger ). Little has been said about the interaction of such businesses with other businesses and urban cultural features.…”

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“…Next a Turkish supermarket rented the location but closed within the year. With two large Turkish supermarkets and other businesses only a few kilometers away in a vibrant commercial area surrounding a mosque (Kuppinger , ), this business was unable to attract a clientele. The small Italian‐Turkish grocery remains in the northern part of the quarter (that includes a wealthier residential enclave), because of its distance from all other local stores .…”

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A Neighborhood Shopping Street and the Making of Urban Cultures and Economies in Germany

Kuppinger

2014

City & Community

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This paper examines the cultural, social, and economic contributions of multi‐ethnic neighborhood businesses to the transformation of German cityscapes. The diversity on N‐Street in Stuttgart has been at the forefront of urban transformations and cultural production. I show that neighborhood stores and shopping streets are sites of urban experiments and cultural beginnings which produce new authenticities in the face of rapid urban homogenization. Combining theoretical debates about urban “authenticities,” the creative potential of immigrant neighborhoods, and ethnic/cross‐cultural economies, I analyze transformations of N‐Street and the surrounding neighborhood. I argue that neighborhood shopping streets are relevant nodes and agents in urban transformations and the production of urban futures. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, I introduce N‐Street's history, its current configuration of genuinely local urban cultures and economies, and its cultural complexity and cultural and economic innovation.

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“…The renovated building became the Hussein Mosque. Located in a residential area, this mosque is an oddity among Stuttgart's mosques, which are mostly located in distant and isolated industrial quarters (Kuppinger, 2010(Kuppinger, , 2011. Largely due to the exceptional effort of this mosque association's President, Mr. Serdar, and his close cooperation with local administrative council (Bezirksrat) and its head (Bezirksvorsteher), the Hussein Mosque has turned into a respected local institution.…”

Section: Our Mosquementioning

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Cinderella Wears a Hijab

Kuppinger

2013

Space and Culture

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This article examines lifeworlds and transformations in multiethnic and multireligious neighborhoods in Germany. The author illustrates how by way of minute everyday interactions and encounters, individuals and groups experience each other and devise new practices that aim to accommodate the cultural and religious needs of all involved. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Stuttgart, this article argues that neighborhood spaces, everyday encounters, and ensuing cultural compromises are of fundamental importance for the construction of multiethnic and multireligious urban futures. The article focuses on the interaction of Muslim and non-Muslim individuals and groups in the context of individual, small group interactions, and larger neighborhood events. The author illustrates how concrete changes are negotiated and have become part of local practices and a distinct neighborhood ethos of cultural understanding and cooperation.

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Vibrant Mosques: Space, Planning and Informality in Germany

Cited by 36 publications

References 21 publications

Experimenting on racialized neighbourhoods: Internationale Bauausstellung Hamburg and the urban laboratory in Hamburg–Wilhelmsburg

Experimenting on racialized neighbourhoods: Internationale Bauausstellung Hamburg and the urban laboratory in Hamburg–Wilhelmsburg

A Neighborhood Shopping Street and the Making of Urban Cultures and Economies in Germany

Cinderella Wears a Hijab

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