Description
Book SynopsisThis book presents original research on the practical creation or use of places, homes, senses of loyalty and feelings of togetherness among Muslim minorities in Europe. The individual chapters deal with examples of Muslim «homing» or «sense-making» strategies, or the possibilities thereof, in Britain, Denmark, and Ireland. Through their research, the authors challenge prevalent perspectives in research on Muslims in Europe such as the transnational perspective and the Orientalism perspective. The chapters are inspired by recent cultural and human geography in order to emphasize the spatiality of «homing» and «sense-making» strategies.
Table of ContentsContents: Jakob Egholm Feldt/Kirstine Sinclair: Lived Space: Reconsidering Transnationalism among Muslim Minorities – Jakob Egholm Feldt: Re-considering Trans-Nationalism: Historical and Conceptual Reflections – Birgitte Schepelern Johansen/Dorthe Høvids Possing: Between Gaza and Here: Analytical Reflections on Modes of Identification, Minority Identity and Lived Space among Muslims in Britain and Denmark in the Course of the Gaza Conflict 2008-09 – Kirstine Sinclair: Hizb ut-Tahrir and Notions of Home – Garbi Schmidt: Spaces, Negotiation and Conflict: Muslim and Non-Muslim Encounters in Nørrebro, Copenhagen – Ann-Sophie Hemmingsen: Whose Courtroom? Observations from Terrorism Trials – Ehab Galal: Trans-National Islamic TV: A Space for Religious and Gendered Living – Des Delaney/Francesco Cavatorta: The Exclusion of Denizens within the Irish Social and Political Opportunity Structure: The Cosmopolitan Case of Muslims in the Republic of Ireland.
