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Mosques as Spaces of Everyday Geopolitical Tensions.
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Geopolitics . Mar/Apr2022, Vol. 27 Issue 2, p629-654. 26p. - Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- Mosques in Europe have long been and are still at the centre of political debates, despite the decades-long presence of migrant Muslim communities in Europe. Scholars within geography and other disciplines have studied mosques extensively with a focus on urban space politics, and examined tensions and conflicts between migrant mosque communities and the broader segments of the local people. In this paper, I focus on DITIB, a Turkish umbrella mosque organization in Germany, and I carry these debates into a transnational terrain, re-theorizing mosques not only as political sites, but also everyday geopolitical spaces where national imaginaries and territorial struggles take place in the daily lives of mosque communities. Through this approach, I draw on the studies of feminist geographers who have provided a renewed perspective to classical geopolitics discussions by revealing how geopolitical relations, struggles, and interactions also operate in everyday spaces, relations, and bodies of ordinary people by reproducing the deep-seated exclusions, discriminations and contestations. This paper contributes to critical geopolitics and geographies of religion literatures as well as to broader discussions on the geopolitics of religion by analysing how a mosque organization is situated at the centre of geopolitical tensions, and how transnational and transregional controversies operate on the walls and properties of mosques and in everyday social/cultural activities of mosque communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14650045
- Volume :
- 27
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Geopolitics
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 155469969
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2020.1820485