Claire Dwyer
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 79309 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Claire Dwyer |
| PRENOMES | Claire |
| SOBRENOME | Dwyer |
| ASSINATURA | DWYER C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9966-440X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 40 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 850 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1995 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 15 |
From sacred place to outer space
Between 1936 and 1969, around 1600 kneelers were produced for the new Anglican cathedral at Guildford in Surrey, southern England. This was a major collective devotional artwork, involving hundreds of embroiderers, mostly local women. The project was a distinctive form of community and collective artwork, that complicates established understandings of embroidery, craftwork, femininity and politics. It worked within guidelines for design and mater…
Faith, planning and changing multiculturalism
This paper draws on recent research on the construction of new religious buildings by diverse faith communities in the London Borough of Ealing in West London to compare the navigation of local planning processes in the realization of new permanent structures for worship. While existing research emphasizes barriers for minority faith communities, this paper suggests that faith communities are successful local actors able to navigate local plannin…
Visualising a Sacred City
My Life is but a weaving
This article reflects on creative arts practice as a means to research the interrelationships of creativity and faith through discussion of a textile-based arts project undertaken with women of diverse religious backgrounds in West London. Building on research on the significance of vernacular religious textiles in community space and in domestic religious practice, the arts project developed a collective embroidery installation exploring the the…
The hidden geographies of religious creativity
Religious activity, particularly as associated with what might be called everyday organized religion, has been unconsidered in recent discussions of the geographies and policies relating to creativity, and has been almost absent in the discipline of Geography's recent 'creative turn'. We argue both that religion has been given little or no attention in academic discussions of vernacular creativity, while arts policy as it developed in the United …
Ethnic and Religious Diversity in the Politics of Suburban London
The notion of ‘suburbia’ is increasingly useless as a singular, simple description of place, identity or political culture. Focusing particularly on ethnic and religious diversity highlights the intensely differentiated nature of outer London. The tropes of ‘Metroland’, and ‘leafy suburbia’ deflect from recognition of this diversity, and the broadly‐found expectations about patterns of migration, suburbanisation and cultural change loosely associ…
Living, changing light’
The creativity of religious art and practice is largely ignored in discussions of urban creativity. In this paper the importance of religious creativity in the making of suburban space is explored through a focus on the role of artists in two Christian churches in West London. Drawing on an analysis of two female stained glass artists, working in different time periods and religious contexts, this paper suggests the significance of churches as si…
Introduction
In this short introduction to a themed section on gendered mobilities and transnational identities the articles are introduced and the three key conceptual themes which emerge from the collection are discussed. It is argued first, that gendered migration patterns reconfigure all the social relations within transnational family formations. Second, that chains of care need to be conceptualised in more complex ways recognising multiple forms and cir…
Identities and Subjectivities
Identities and Subjectivities
Geographies of Identities and Subjectivities
New Geographies of Race and Racism
Contents: Introduction: island geographies: new geographies of race and racism, Claire Dwyer and Caroline Bressey Part 1 Racing Histories and Geographies: Whiteness and the West, Alastair Bonnett It's only political correctness a race and racism in British history, Caroline Bressey Belonging in Britain a father's hands, Ingrid Pollard On the significance of being white: European migrant workers in the British economy in the 1940s and 2000s, Linda…
Highway to Heaven
We analyse the emergence of the 'Highway to Heaven', a distinctive landscape of more than 20 diverse religious buildings, in the suburban municipality of Richmond, outside Vancouver, to explore the intersections of immigration, planning, multiculturalism, religion and suburban space. In the context of wider contested planning disputes for new places of worship for immigrant communities, the creation of a designated 'Assembly District' in Richmond…
Rescripting Religion in the City
Rescripting Religion in the City: Migration and Religious identity in the Modern Metropolis." Social & Cultural Geography, 17(6), pp. 821–822
Why does religion matter for cultural geographers
Re-reading Jackson’s (1989) Maps of Meaning prior to the OU symposium, I was struck by the absence of religion. For cultural geographers writing in the late 1980s religion was studiously avoided, b
Photographing Faith in Suburbia
This article reflects on the experience and outcome of a collaboration between a photographer, a geographer and six senior citizens from six different faith communities in West London. In 2012 this group collaborated to produce an exhibition 'Faith in Suburbia: a shared photographic journey' which was exhibited at a local history museum, at University College London and at the participating places of worship. Drawing on the photographic approach …
On the edge
On the edge: the contested cultures of English suburbia (Rupa Huq)." Urban Geography, 35(4), pp. 631–632
An Introduction to International Migration Studies
"An Introduction to International Migration Studies: European Perspectives." Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 40(12), pp. 2068–2069
Faith in suburbia a shared photographic journey
Faith in the system?’ State‐funded faith schools in England and the contested parameters of community cohesion
Within the wider context of interest in the relationships between faith and the state, this paper focuses on the case of state‐funded faith schools in England and how opposition to them has been mobilised and negotiated. Discussion focuses specifically on the role of community cohesion policy – a policy adopted to combat social and ethnic division after 2001 – and the contested parameters of this policy when introduced to monitor schools. Analysi…
Faith and suburbia
Spectacular new religious buildings on London's outskirts are often cited as evidence of London's multicultural diversity. However, the suburban location of these new buildings is usually dismissed as incongruous, drawing on familiar tropes of the suburbs as sites of modernisation, materialism and secularism. This paper uses this assumed incongruity to address the complexity of relationships between religion and suburban space by tracing the sign…
Landscapes of diasporic religious belonging in the edge-city
This paper extends current debates about diaspora cities to the suburbs, arguing that new forms of diasporic religious architecture in suburban and edge-city locations are indicative of complex geographies of migration, settlement, mobility, transnational networks and diasporic material cultures. Drawing on a detailed analysis of the building of a new Jain Temple built in Potters' Bar, on the edge of London, by the Oshwal Community of Jains, we a…
Embodying Nationhood? Conceptions of British National Identity, Citizenship, and Gender in the 'Veil Affair
This article reports on a study of mediatised public discourses on nationhood, citizenship, and gender in Britain, and analyses the ways in which these accounts may be utilised in the cultivation of particular kinds of social identities. We distinguish our approach at the outset from other lines of inquiry to report on a macro level exploration of an event in which these value discourses were operative, namely the national the press reaction to t…
Explaining Educational Achievement and Career Aspirations among Young British Pakistanis
This article offers an explanation for recent trends that indicate higher numbers of young British Pakistani men and women pursue higher education compared to their white peers. Our qualitative research provides evidence for shared norms and values amongst British Pakistani families, what we term 'ethnic capital'. However, our findings also highlight differences between families. The Bourdieuian notion of 'cultural capital' explains educational s…
Qualitative methods III
In this report we review recent work in geography which engages with innovative qualitative methods, focusing on three selected arenas: the archive, artistic collaborations and online engagements. Qualitative archival research illustrates the tensions around assembling accounts and incorporating uncertainty as geographers strive to animate the archives. Collaborative artistic endeavours, whether through participatory video, artistic installations…
Negotiating diasporic identities
Veiled Meanings
This article draws upon in-depth discussions conducted with young British Muslim women to explore the ways in which embodied differences are negotiated in the construction and contestation of identity. The author argues that dress is an overdetermined signifier for Muslim women, illustrating the role of clothing, particularly the veil, in the discursive formation of 'Muslim women'. The author explores some of the possibilities for reworking dress…
Transnationalism and the spaces of commodity culture
This paper presents a critical assessment of the concept of transnationalism and its place within the current refiguration of cultural geography. Identifying three specific concerns with current theorizations of transnationalism (regarding the concept's scope, specificity and politics), the paper discusses the widely perceived need to 'ground' the study of transnationalism in specific empirical research. It argues that this discussion has been un…
Explaining Educational Achievement and Career Aspirations among Young British Pakistanis
This article offers an explanation for recent trends that indicate higher numbers of young British Pakistani men and women pursue higher education compared to their white peers. Our qualitative research provides evidence for shared norms and values amongst British Pakistani families, what we term 'ethnic capital'. However, our findings also highlight differences between families. The Bourdieuian notion of 'cultural capital' explains educational s…
From cricket lover to terror suspect' - challenging representations of young British Muslim men
In contemporary media and policy debates young British Muslim men are frequently described as experiencing cultural conflict, as alienated, deviant, underachieving, and as potential terrorists. In this article we seek to convey the everyday negotiations, struggles and structural constraints that shape the lives of young British Pakistani Muslim men in particular. We draw on interviews with British Pakistani Muslim men aged between 16 and 27 in Sl…
Qualitative methods
Copyright © 2007 SAGE Publications. Author's draft version; post-print. Final version published by Sage available on Sage Journals Online http://online.sagepub.com
Faith and suburbia
Spectacular new religious buildings on London's outskirts are often cited as evidence of London's multicultural diversity. However, the suburban location of these new buildings is usually dismissed as incongruous, drawing on familiar tropes of the suburbs as sites of modernisation, materialism and secularism. This paper uses this assumed incongruity to address the complexity of relationships between religion and suburban space by tracing the sign…
Contradictions of Community
The author addresses contradictions of community through a case study which explores how young British Muslim women construct and contest their identities. Drawing upon the work of Hall, and others, in their theorisation of 'new ethnicities' or 'hybrid identities', she examines the possibilities for reworking the idea of community as a dynamic process which has a discursive and political effectivity. Through an examination of the constructions of…
Fashioning ethnicities
This article discusses the entanglement of commerce and culture in the production of ethnicized commodities. Drawing on a case study of fashion label Ghulam Sakina and its designer Liaqat Rasul, we explore how he engages with a notion of `multicultural' as both sociological, aesthetic and commercial. We argue that commodification is not something done to pre-existing ethnicities and ethnic subjects, but is a process through which ethnicities are …
Embodying Nationhood? Conceptions of British National Identity, Citizenship, and Gender in the 'Veil Affair
This article reports on a study of mediatised public discourses on nationhood, citizenship, and gender in Britain, and analyses the ways in which these accounts may be utilised in the cultivation of particular kinds of social identities. We distinguish our approach at the outset from other lines of inquiry to report on a macro level exploration of an event in which these value discourses were operative, namely the national the press reaction to t…
Why does religion matter for cultural geographers
Re-reading Jackson’s (1989) Maps of Meaning prior to the OU symposium, I was struck by the absence of religion. For cultural geographers writing in the late 1980s religion was studiously avoided, b
Commodifying Difference
In this paper we explore the contested spaces of contemporary commodity culture through case-study research with two fashion companies that are involved, in linked but contrasting ways, with the production and marketing of cultural difference. One company, the British-based women's wear firm EAST, is striving to extend its high-street presence via a generalised 'ethnic' aesthetic, combined with culturally constructed notions of design individuali…
Qualitative methods III
In this report we review recent work in geography which engages with innovative qualitative methods, focusing on three selected arenas: the archive, artistic collaborations and online engagements. Qualitative archival research illustrates the tensions around assembling accounts and incorporating uncertainty as geographers strive to animate the archives. Collaborative artistic endeavours, whether through participatory video, artistic installations…
Faith in the system?’ State‐funded faith schools in England and the contested parameters of community cohesion
Within the wider context of interest in the relationships between faith and the state, this paper focuses on the case of state‐funded faith schools in England and how opposition to them has been mobilised and negotiated. Discussion focuses specifically on the role of community cohesion policy – a policy adopted to combat social and ethnic division after 2001 – and the contested parameters of this policy when introduced to monitor schools. Analysi…
Highway to Heaven
We analyse the emergence of the 'Highway to Heaven', a distinctive landscape of more than 20 diverse religious buildings, in the suburban municipality of Richmond, outside Vancouver, to explore the intersections of immigration, planning, multiculturalism, religion and suburban space. In the context of wider contested planning disputes for new places of worship for immigrant communities, the creation of a designated 'Assembly District' in Richmond…
Progress reports
Copyright © 2008 SAGE Publications. Author's draft version; post-print. Final version published by Sage available on Sage Journals Online http://online.sagepub.com
The hidden geographies of religious creativity
Religious activity, particularly as associated with what might be called everyday organized religion, has been unconsidered in recent discussions of the geographies and policies relating to creativity, and has been almost absent in the discipline of Geography's recent 'creative turn'. We argue both that religion has been given little or no attention in academic discussions of vernacular creativity, while arts policy as it developed in the United …
Consuming transnational fashion in London and Mumbai
Work and wonder at the weekend
This article explores intersections between academic work and emotional work at a feminist geography reading weekend held by the Women and Geography Study Group of the Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers in the UK in 2006. It points to the importance of the fleeting, often unreported, spaces of feminist geographical praxis and of inserting these in our disciplinary histories. Using a performative textual strategy it offers…
My Life is but a weaving
This article reflects on creative arts practice as a means to research the interrelationships of creativity and faith through discussion of a textile-based arts project undertaken with women of diverse religious backgrounds in West London. Building on research on the significance of vernacular religious textiles in community space and in domestic religious practice, the arts project developed a collective embroidery installation exploring the the…
Photographing Faith in Suburbia
This article reflects on the experience and outcome of a collaboration between a photographer, a geographer and six senior citizens from six different faith communities in West London. In 2012 this group collaborated to produce an exhibition 'Faith in Suburbia: a shared photographic journey' which was exhibited at a local history museum, at University College London and at the participating places of worship. Drawing on the photographic approach …
Faith, planning and changing multiculturalism
This paper draws on recent research on the construction of new religious buildings by diverse faith communities in the London Borough of Ealing in West London to compare the navigation of local planning processes in the realization of new permanent structures for worship. While existing research emphasizes barriers for minority faith communities, this paper suggests that faith communities are successful local actors able to navigate local plannin…
Ethnic and Religious Diversity in the Politics of Suburban London
The notion of ‘suburbia’ is increasingly useless as a singular, simple description of place, identity or political culture. Focusing particularly on ethnic and religious diversity highlights the intensely differentiated nature of outer London. The tropes of ‘Metroland’, and ‘leafy suburbia’ deflect from recognition of this diversity, and the broadly‐found expectations about patterns of migration, suburbanisation and cultural change loosely associ…
Introduction
In this short introduction to a themed section on gendered mobilities and transnational identities the articles are introduced and the three key conceptual themes which emerge from the collection are discussed. It is argued first, that gendered migration patterns reconfigure all the social relations within transnational family formations. Second, that chains of care need to be conceptualised in more complex ways recognising multiple forms and cir…
Rescripting Religion in the City
Rescripting Religion in the City: Migration and Religious identity in the Modern Metropolis." Social & Cultural Geography, 17(6), pp. 821–822
The institutionalisation of Islam in The Netherlands and in the UK
This article compares the institutionalisation of Islam in The Netherlands and in the UK by considering the establishment of state‐funded Islamic schools. State‐funded Islamic schools exist in The Netherlands, while in the UK such schools have so far been opposed. The article focuses on the political decision‐making process at both the national and local level in each country. In particular, it examines the ideological construction of ‘Muslims’ e…
Veiled Meanings
This article draws upon in-depth discussions conducted with young British Muslim women to explore the ways in which embodied differences are negotiated in the construction and contestation of identity. The author argues that dress is an overdetermined signifier for Muslim women, illustrating the role of clothing, particularly the veil, in the discursive formation of 'Muslim women'. The author explores some of the possibilities for reworking dress…
Contradictions of Community
The author addresses contradictions of community through a case study which explores how young British Muslim women construct and contest their identities. Drawing upon the work of Hall, and others, in their theorisation of 'new ethnicities' or 'hybrid identities', she examines the possibilities for reworking the idea of community as a dynamic process which has a discursive and political effectivity. Through an examination of the constructions of…
Negotiating diasporic identities
Linking Research and Teaching
This paper describes a project used in the first-year curriculum that requires students to interview a member of staff about their research as a possible model to link research and teaching in the university. Through a critical evaluation, which draws upon responses canvassed from students and staff, the value of the project is assessed and its scope for application within other institutions suggested. Keywords: Research LinkagesPhilosophy Of Geo…
Fashioning ethnicities
This article discusses the entanglement of commerce and culture in the production of ethnicized commodities. Drawing on a case study of fashion label Ghulam Sakina and its designer Liaqat Rasul, we explore how he engages with a notion of `multicultural' as both sociological, aesthetic and commercial. We argue that commodification is not something done to pre-existing ethnicities and ethnic subjects, but is a process through which ethnicities are …
Transnationalism and the spaces of commodity culture
This paper presents a critical assessment of the concept of transnationalism and its place within the current refiguration of cultural geography. Identifying three specific concerns with current theorizations of transnationalism (regarding the concept's scope, specificity and politics), the paper discusses the widely perceived need to 'ground' the study of transnationalism in specific empirical research. It argues that this discussion has been un…
Commodifying Difference
In this paper we explore the contested spaces of contemporary commodity culture through case-study research with two fashion companies that are involved, in linked but contrasting ways, with the production and marketing of cultural difference. One company, the British-based women's wear firm EAST, is striving to extend its high-street presence via a generalised 'ethnic' aesthetic, combined with culturally constructed notions of design individuali…
Transnational Spaces
This chapter explores diasporic cultural production in global markets through the consumer cultural products of British Asian women and the diasporean aesthetics that govern their fashion styles
Progress reports
Copyright © 2008 SAGE Publications. Author's draft version; post-print. Final version published by Sage available on Sage Journals Online http://online.sagepub.com
Consuming transnational fashion in London and Mumbai
Qualitative methods
Copyright © 2007 SAGE Publications. Author's draft version; post-print. Final version published by Sage available on Sage Journals Online http://online.sagepub.com
The Indian Diaspora
Work and wonder at the weekend
This article explores intersections between academic work and emotional work at a feminist geography reading weekend held by the Women and Geography Study Group of the Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers in the UK in 2006. It points to the importance of the fleeting, often unreported, spaces of feminist geographical praxis and of inserting these in our disciplinary histories. Using a performative textual strategy it offers…
From cricket lover to terror suspect' - challenging representations of young British Muslim men
In contemporary media and policy debates young British Muslim men are frequently described as experiencing cultural conflict, as alienated, deviant, underachieving, and as potential terrorists. In this article we seek to convey the everyday negotiations, struggles and structural constraints that shape the lives of young British Pakistani Muslim men in particular. We draw on interviews with British Pakistani Muslim men aged between 16 and 27 in Sl…
Qualitative methods III
In this report we review recent work in geography which engages with innovative qualitative methods, focusing on three selected arenas: the archive, artistic collaborations and online engagements. Qualitative archival research illustrates the tensions around assembling accounts and incorporating uncertainty as geographers strive to animate the archives. Collaborative artistic endeavours, whether through participatory video, artistic installations…
Embodying Nationhood? Conceptions of British National Identity, Citizenship, and Gender in the 'Veil Affair
This article reports on a study of mediatised public discourses on nationhood, citizenship, and gender in Britain, and analyses the ways in which these accounts may be utilised in the cultivation of particular kinds of social identities. We distinguish our approach at the outset from other lines of inquiry to report on a macro level exploration of an event in which these value discourses were operative, namely the national the press reaction to t…
Explaining Educational Achievement and Career Aspirations among Young British Pakistanis
This article offers an explanation for recent trends that indicate higher numbers of young British Pakistani men and women pursue higher education compared to their white peers. Our qualitative research provides evidence for shared norms and values amongst British Pakistani families, what we term 'ethnic capital'. However, our findings also highlight differences between families. The Bourdieuian notion of 'cultural capital' explains educational s…
Landscapes of diasporic religious belonging in the edge-city
This paper extends current debates about diaspora cities to the suburbs, arguing that new forms of diasporic religious architecture in suburban and edge-city locations are indicative of complex geographies of migration, settlement, mobility, transnational networks and diasporic material cultures. Drawing on a detailed analysis of the building of a new Jain Temple built in Potters' Bar, on the edge of London, by the Oshwal Community of Jains, we a…
Faith in the system?’ State‐funded faith schools in England and the contested parameters of community cohesion
Within the wider context of interest in the relationships between faith and the state, this paper focuses on the case of state‐funded faith schools in England and how opposition to them has been mobilised and negotiated. Discussion focuses specifically on the role of community cohesion policy – a policy adopted to combat social and ethnic division after 2001 – and the contested parameters of this policy when introduced to monitor schools. Analysi…
Faith and suburbia
Spectacular new religious buildings on London's outskirts are often cited as evidence of London's multicultural diversity. However, the suburban location of these new buildings is usually dismissed as incongruous, drawing on familiar tropes of the suburbs as sites of modernisation, materialism and secularism. This paper uses this assumed incongruity to address the complexity of relationships between religion and suburban space by tracing the sign…
On the edge
On the edge: the contested cultures of English suburbia (Rupa Huq)." Urban Geography, 35(4), pp. 631–632
An Introduction to International Migration Studies
"An Introduction to International Migration Studies: European Perspectives." Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 40(12), pp. 2068–2069
Faith in suburbia a shared photographic journey
Photographing Faith in Suburbia
This article reflects on the experience and outcome of a collaboration between a photographer, a geographer and six senior citizens from six different faith communities in West London. In 2012 this group collaborated to produce an exhibition 'Faith in Suburbia: a shared photographic journey' which was exhibited at a local history museum, at University College London and at the participating places of worship. Drawing on the photographic approach …
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