Anna Mansson Mcginty
Biographic Data
| ID | 2371532 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Mansson Mcginty |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna Mansson |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcginty |
| SIGNATURE | MCGINTY A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-2032-9960 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 105 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
I’m Muslim, What Are You?”
In this essay I address some critical methodological and epistemological questions pertaining to the geographical study of religious identities and communities, with particular focus on Muslim identities and geographies in Western contexts. Feminist scholars within geography have reflected extensively on researchers’ positionality and knowledge production with focus on gender, race, and sexuality, but religious identity, or lack thereof, remain a…
Lived Islam
This article explores lived Islam in the context of two young American Muslim women’s everyday lives. Although much of the scholarship on Muslim geographies is grounded in people’s everyday lives, the focus has been to situate and examine the specific meanings and expressions of “Muslim” identities. Whereas scholars intentionally have been writing against anti-Muslim racism and with the commendable aim of gaining extensive knowledge, our focus on…
Embodied Islamophobia
This article examines embodied Islamophobia and aims to contribute to the scholarship on geographies of Islamophobia, as well as extend discussions on embodied geopolitics. Drawing on feminist work on emotional geopolitics, and Pain and Staeheli's 'intimacy-geopolitics' (2014), I propose an analytical distinction between embodied and systematic Islamophobia. While systematic Islamophobia refers to the discursive and institutional dimensions, embo…
The American prophetic tradition and social justice activism among Muslims in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
The ontology of western liberalism
Diverse Muslims in a Racialized Landscape
Studying the racially and ethnically diverse Muslim minority population in any US city must take into account the racialized landscape prevailing in the city. Milwaukee is a highly racially segregated city, where residential patterns have been shaped by decades of immigration by various ethnic and racial groups, and by restrictions on residential housing, as well as industrialization, deindustrialization and suburbanization. This paper presents f…
Emotional geographies of veiling
This article explores experiential and emotional dimensions of veiling practices, the 'emotional geographies of veiling,' in relation to Muslim women's community activism. By approaching the hijab as a symbol with both discursive effects and personal meaning – a psycho-social space – this article offers important insights into the intertwined, complex processes of internal embodiments and public manifestations of Muslim female identities. Based o…
Negotiating development in Muslim societies
Researching within and against Islamophobia
This paper draws on an ongoing study, The Muslim Milwaukee Project, and examines the collaboration between three faculty members and Muslim leaders in Milwaukee to design and implement a demographic survey of the Muslim community in the city. By providing a case study from a mid-sized city in the USA, as well as examining the ethical and methodological questions that arise when studying Muslims, we intend to address an apparent breach in the lite…
Faith Drives Me to Be an Activist” Two American Muslim Women on Faith, Outreach, and Gender
The 'Mainstream Muslim' Opposing Islamophobia
This paper explores the public self-representations of Muslim American leaders from major Muslim organizations in the United States as articulated in a local community engagement. I argue that the prevalent self-representations of the 'mainstream Muslim' and 'American Islam' have become politicized terms in an effort to construct a political and religious constituency in resistance to rampant Islamophobic expressions. By stressing compatibility a…
Becoming Muslim: Western women's conversions to Islam
Formation of alternative femininities through Islam
Embodied Islamophobia
This article examines embodied Islamophobia and aims to contribute to the scholarship on geographies of Islamophobia, as well as extend discussions on embodied geopolitics. Drawing on feminist work on emotional geopolitics, and Pain and Staeheli's 'intimacy-geopolitics' (2014), I propose an analytical distinction between embodied and systematic Islamophobia. While systematic Islamophobia refers to the discursive and institutional dimensions, embo…
Emotional geographies of veiling
This article explores experiential and emotional dimensions of veiling practices, the 'emotional geographies of veiling,' in relation to Muslim women's community activism. By approaching the hijab as a symbol with both discursive effects and personal meaning – a psycho-social space – this article offers important insights into the intertwined, complex processes of internal embodiments and public manifestations of Muslim female identities. Based o…
The 'Mainstream Muslim' Opposing Islamophobia
This paper explores the public self-representations of Muslim American leaders from major Muslim organizations in the United States as articulated in a local community engagement. I argue that the prevalent self-representations of the 'mainstream Muslim' and 'American Islam' have become politicized terms in an effort to construct a political and religious constituency in resistance to rampant Islamophobic expressions. By stressing compatibility a…
Researching within and against Islamophobia
This paper draws on an ongoing study, The Muslim Milwaukee Project, and examines the collaboration between three faculty members and Muslim leaders in Milwaukee to design and implement a demographic survey of the Muslim community in the city. By providing a case study from a mid-sized city in the USA, as well as examining the ethical and methodological questions that arise when studying Muslims, we intend to address an apparent breach in the lite…
Formation of alternative femininities through Islam
Diverse Muslims in a Racialized Landscape
Studying the racially and ethnically diverse Muslim minority population in any US city must take into account the racialized landscape prevailing in the city. Milwaukee is a highly racially segregated city, where residential patterns have been shaped by decades of immigration by various ethnic and racial groups, and by restrictions on residential housing, as well as industrialization, deindustrialization and suburbanization. This paper presents f…
Faith Drives Me to Be an Activist” Two American Muslim Women on Faith, Outreach, and Gender
Lived Islam
This article explores lived Islam in the context of two young American Muslim women’s everyday lives. Although much of the scholarship on Muslim geographies is grounded in people’s everyday lives, the focus has been to situate and examine the specific meanings and expressions of “Muslim” identities. Whereas scholars intentionally have been writing against anti-Muslim racism and with the commendable aim of gaining extensive knowledge, our focus on…
The American prophetic tradition and social justice activism among Muslims in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Becoming Muslim: Western women's conversions to Islam
Formation of alternative femininities through Islam
Faith Drives Me to Be an Activist” Two American Muslim Women on Faith, Outreach, and Gender
The 'Mainstream Muslim' Opposing Islamophobia
This paper explores the public self-representations of Muslim American leaders from major Muslim organizations in the United States as articulated in a local community engagement. I argue that the prevalent self-representations of the 'mainstream Muslim' and 'American Islam' have become politicized terms in an effort to construct a political and religious constituency in resistance to rampant Islamophobic expressions. By stressing compatibility a…
Emotional geographies of veiling
This article explores experiential and emotional dimensions of veiling practices, the 'emotional geographies of veiling,' in relation to Muslim women's community activism. By approaching the hijab as a symbol with both discursive effects and personal meaning – a psycho-social space – this article offers important insights into the intertwined, complex processes of internal embodiments and public manifestations of Muslim female identities. Based o…
Negotiating development in Muslim societies
Researching within and against Islamophobia
This paper draws on an ongoing study, The Muslim Milwaukee Project, and examines the collaboration between three faculty members and Muslim leaders in Milwaukee to design and implement a demographic survey of the Muslim community in the city. By providing a case study from a mid-sized city in the USA, as well as examining the ethical and methodological questions that arise when studying Muslims, we intend to address an apparent breach in the lite…
Diverse Muslims in a Racialized Landscape
Studying the racially and ethnically diverse Muslim minority population in any US city must take into account the racialized landscape prevailing in the city. Milwaukee is a highly racially segregated city, where residential patterns have been shaped by decades of immigration by various ethnic and racial groups, and by restrictions on residential housing, as well as industrialization, deindustrialization and suburbanization. This paper presents f…
The ontology of western liberalism
The American prophetic tradition and social justice activism among Muslims in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Embodied Islamophobia
This article examines embodied Islamophobia and aims to contribute to the scholarship on geographies of Islamophobia, as well as extend discussions on embodied geopolitics. Drawing on feminist work on emotional geopolitics, and Pain and Staeheli's 'intimacy-geopolitics' (2014), I propose an analytical distinction between embodied and systematic Islamophobia. While systematic Islamophobia refers to the discursive and institutional dimensions, embo…
Lived Islam
This article explores lived Islam in the context of two young American Muslim women’s everyday lives. Although much of the scholarship on Muslim geographies is grounded in people’s everyday lives, the focus has been to situate and examine the specific meanings and expressions of “Muslim” identities. Whereas scholars intentionally have been writing against anti-Muslim racism and with the commendable aim of gaining extensive knowledge, our focus on…
I’m Muslim, What Are You?”
In this essay I address some critical methodological and epistemological questions pertaining to the geographical study of religious identities and communities, with particular focus on Muslim identities and geographies in Western contexts. Feminist scholars within geography have reflected extensively on researchers’ positionality and knowledge production with focus on gender, race, and sexuality, but religious identity, or lack thereof, remain a…
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (7 works) · Islam (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works)