ISBN:
9780748631230
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (249 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Print version Muslims in Britain : Race, Place and Identities
DDC:
305.6970941
Keywords:
Muslims
;
Muslims Ethnic identity
;
Muslims ; Great Britain ; Ethnic identity
;
Muslims ; Great Britain
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
An innovative insight to the everyday lives of Muslims in Britain, focusing on the intersection of race, place and identities. It gathers a range of reflections on how Muslims in Britain negotiate their everyday lives, manage experiences of racism and exclusion, and develop local networks and global connections.
Abstract:
Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Tables -- Figures -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Muslims in Britain - race, place and the spatiality of identities -- SECTION 1 Gender, place and culture -- Chapter 2 Creating home spaces: young British Muslim women's identity and conceptualisations of home -- Chapter 3 'You seem very westernised to me':place, identity and othering of Muslim workers in the UK labour market -- Chapter 4 Rethinking the identities of young British Pakistani Muslim women: educational experiences and aspirations -- Chapter 5 Race, 'face' and masculinity: the identities and local geographies of Muslim boys -- SECTION 2 Landscapes, communities and networks -- Chapter 6 British Arab perspectives on religion, politics and 'the public' -- Chapter 7 The Multicultural city and the politics of religious architecture: urban planning, mosques and meaning-making in Britain -- Chapter 8 Holy places, contested spaces: British Pakistani accounts of pilgrimage to Makkah and Madinah -- Chapter 9 Excess baggage or precious gems? The migration of cultural commodities -- Chapter 10 Situating Muslim geographies -- Chapter 11 Muslims and the politics of difference -- Chapter 12 Islamophobia in the construction of British Muslim identity politics -- Afterword -- INDEX.
Note:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
Permalink
