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Contested narratives of encounter from a bridge-building project in northern England.
- Source :
- Space & Polity; Aug2017, Vol. 21 Issue 2, p191-205, 15p
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- Recent years of community engagement under the war on terror in the UK have seen the co-option of bridge-building initiatives into wider narratives of securing communities. Through ethnographic insights into a peace building inter-faith initiative that made it onto the news as a ‘deradicalization’ workshop, I show how encounters in such projects are susceptible to being reframed into the very narrative in which encounters are sought after in the first place as a political settlement to growing inter-ethnic tension and conflict. This paper contributes to the growing geographies of encounter literature by making more explicit the narratives that shape how encounters function. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13562576
- Volume :
- 21
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Space & Polity
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 123847499
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/13562576.2017.1331984