Muslim Geographies: current trends and future directions

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• Muslim Geographies current trends and future
  directions

Peter Hopkins School of Geography, Politics and
Sociology Newcastle University UK
NE17RU peter.hopkins_at_ncl.ac.uk
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Residential segregation
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Cultural geographies of the city
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Gender relations and identities
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Critical geopolitics and everyday lives
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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?

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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?

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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?

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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?

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• Muslim Geographies current trends and future
  directions

Peter Hopkins School of Geography, Politics and
Sociology Newcastle University UK
NE17RU peter.hopkins_at_ncl.ac.uk