Making Gender Ma(R)King Place: Youthful British Pakistani Muslim Women's Narratives of Urban Space

Robina Mohammad
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Robina Mohammad: Institute of Asian Studies, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Jalan Tungku Link, Gadong BE1410, Negara Brunei Darussalam

Environment and Planning A, 2013, vol. 45, issue 8, 1802-1822

Abstract: This paper draws on a case study of youthful British Pakistani Muslim women located in one of the largest Pakistani Muslim communities in the UK, in the city of Birmingham, to examine their narratives of urban space. These narratives illuminate the performance of gendered, Muslim, public spatialities, a term I use to refer to the spatial practices and personal geographies of the body and territory. I explore the ways in which the everyday life world that cuts across South Asian Muslim society and a public realm encoded with secular liberal democratic values configures the spatial ranges, practices, and personal geographies of youthful Pakistani Muslim women. I identify the ideological, material, and affective modalities through which these are given form at the intersection of place, ‘race’, gender, and religion. Finally, I illustrate the ways in which the dynamic multiethnic, multicultural milieu of Birmingham's ‘Little Pakistan’ localities offer youthful Pakistani Muslim women alternative repertoires for remaking the self, promoting cultural change and a greater sense of inclusiveness and belonging In doing so I foreground the fluidity and dynamic character of British South Asian Muslim cultures, contesting their representations as fixed and bounded

Keywords: Muslim; public; visibility; spatiality; femininity; Birmingham (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1068/a45253

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