Locality, Spatiality and Contingency in East London
Researching Muslim-Jewish encounters always risks reifying categories and foregrounding faith-based identities over other - for instance ethnic or class - identities. The "diversity turn" in scholarship provides one way to address this, highlighting multiple and intersecting lines of ident...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2022
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Annual review of the sociology of religion
Year: 2022, Volume: 13, Pages: 271-288 |
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| Summary: | Researching Muslim-Jewish encounters always risks reifying categories and foregrounding faith-based identities over other - for instance ethnic or class - identities. The "diversity turn" in scholarship provides one way to address this, highlighting multiple and intersecting lines of identity, but risks erasing the dynamic role of race’s power geometries and of the state in shaping emic identifications. This interview with urban scholar Michael Keith focuses on his research in in East London, a site conventionally narrated as the point of arrival for Eastern European Jewish and later South Asian Muslim migration to the UK, and now represented in some sensationalist media and pseudo-scholarly discourses as an "Islamised" "no-go zone" for Jews. Keith argues that a rigorous commitment to the empirical, granular attention to space’s productivity, and openness to the fragility and contingency of all identity categories of can help avoid such lachrymose caricatures as well as de-politicised versions of the "diversity" frame. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Annual review of the sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/9789004514331_014 |