Muslim Geographies: current trends and future directions Peter Hopkins School of Geography, Politics and Sociology Newcastle University UK NE17RU
Residential segregation …
Cultural geographies of the city
Gender relations and identities
Critical geopolitics and everyday lives
Households, families and relationships What about the economic and cultural management of Muslim homespaces? What about Islamic intergenerational relations, Muslim lifecourses and Muslim parenting? What are the emotional geographies of Muslim family life?
Nations, regions and territories What about connections between different territories in terms of religious identities, experiences of migration, and accounts of resettlement. What about national or regional variations in the practice of Islam and the experiences of Muslims? Influence of national/regional government policy and processes of normalisation?
Intersections, interactions and inequalities What about the intersectionality of Muslim identities with other social identities? What might a geography of inter-faith studies look like? What are the geographical inequalities experienced by Muslims in different places at different times?
Researching Muslim Geographies What about the possibilities offered by mixed methods (particularly involving quantitative and qualitative work)? What might participatory action research approaches and methods (Kindon, Pain and Kesby, 2007) add to Muslim Geographies? What are the ethics of doing Muslim Geographies?
Muslim Geographies: current trends and future directions Peter Hopkins School of Geography, Politics and Sociology Newcastle University UK NE17RU