Robina Mohammad
Biographic Data
| ID | 954470 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robina Mohammad |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robina |
| FAMILY NAME | Mohammad |
| SIGNATURE | MOHAMMAD R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universiti Brunei Darussalam |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 193 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Feminist Geography
Feminist geography brings feminist politics and theories together with a geographical focus in examining the relationship between gender relations, place, and space. Feminist perspectives in geography began in the 1970s, and by the end of the 1990s it had gained a considerable institutional presence. Three distinctive phases of development can be identified: geographies of women, socialist feminist geographies, and geographies of difference. The …
Shards and Stages: Migrant Lives, Power, and Space Viewed from Doha, Qatar
Qatar has been projecting power through a series of spectacles, investments, and interventions. These include the new Doha skyline; ownership of the tallest building in Europe (London's Shard); Al Jazeera media; involvement in the Libyan and Syrian civil wars; and, importantly, hosting global events such as the 2022 soccer World Cup. Qatar also holds 14 percent of all known natural gas reserves and boasts the world's highest per-capita income. Ou…
Transnational shift: Marriage, home and belonging for British-Pakistani Muslim women
This paper draws on an empirical study, based on interviews and observations, of youthful Pakistani Muslim women raised in Birmingham, UK, to explore transnational marriage practices and their potential for reworking sharply gendered patrilineal norms framing marriage conventions, implicating questions of identity, home and belonging. In the South Asian patrilineal system marriage signals migration for women, displacing home across the natal (mai…
Contrapuntal geographies of post/colonial urban ethnoscapes
Fieldwork amid geographies of openness and closure
This commentary on the set of papers on ‘Field methods in “closed contexts” ’ situates the papers within debates in geography about the interrelated politics, praxis and ethics of fieldwork across cultural, political and economic disjuncture and reflects on the geography of openness and closure
Making Gender Ma(R)King Place: Youthful British Pakistani Muslim Women's Narratives of Urban Space
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 wo…
Postcolonial migrations
In this commentary, we argue for the relevance and importance of postcolonial theory to the study of migration and mobility.Building on a panel discussion at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, we highlight a number of different ways in which this could take place.We suggest three possible interventions: stretching the boundaries of the spaces of the postcolonial; interrogating the spatial connections that are forg…
Reflections on affect: A meta‐commentary occasioned by Pile (2010) and subsequent exchanges
10.1111/j.1475-5661.2012.00544.x
Spectacular Urbanization amidst Variegated Geographies of Globalization: Learning from Abu Dhabi's Trajectory through the Lives of South Asian Men
The world city aspirations and spectacular urbanization of Gulf cities such as Abu Dhabi rest on the combination of petrodollars, connections and labour. Drawing on interviews with South Asian men working there, this article reports their lives and labour as a mirror to the development of Abu Dhabi. This requires and invites an investigation of spaces of social reproduction, raising broader theoretical and comparative issues about these in the co…
Andrew M. Gardner, City of Strangers: Gulf Migration and the Indian Community in Bahrain
Reading Peter Hopkins' The Issue of Masculine Identities for British Muslims After 9/11: A Social Analysis
Stalingrad in the Hindu Kush? Afpak, Crucibles and Chains of Terror
We write in the aftermath of another bomb attack in a Pakistani city (August 2009). This time it is Lahore, where this year there have already been three attacks striking at the heart of the city. This signals a conflict that is no longer restricted to the distant, remote regions of Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) but is spreading northwards and into Pakistan’s heartlands. The attacks were carried out by the Taliban in retal…
Pakistan-An Ungovernable Space
In a recent initiative targeting Muslim extremism in Britain, Communities Secretary Hazel Blears referred to ungoverned spaces, actual and virtual social spaces that facilitate the radicalisation of Pakistani Muslim youth in Britain. By extension, in the West in political and popular constructions Pakistan is also made intelligible as an ungovernable space, with the rise in conflicts and violence in Pakistan and the perceived lawlessness of its t…
Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani (Yet the Heart Remains Indian): Bollywood, the 'Homeland' Nation-State, and the Diaspora
Hindi cinema offers a means of examining the evolving geographies of the multisited, multinational Indian diaspora and its relationship to the 'homeland'. The paper seeks to elaborate an understanding of Bollywood's visibility in the new diaspora as a response to political, economic, and technological transformations that have taken place in India. It maps these shifts and the reconfigured relationship between the Indian diaspora in the UK and it…
British Pakistani Muslim Women: Marking the Body, Marking the Nation
A chapter on British pakistani muslim women
The Cinderella complex – narrating Spanish women's history, the home and visions of equality: Developing new margins
This paper examines the development of feminism in Spain within the context of political transformations. It focuses on one particular strand of feminist thinking: ‘equality feminism’. The paper traces the evolution of equality feminism and its institutionalization, supported by the production and dissemination of a feminist history of the Franquista dictatorship (1936–1939). Yet, under scrutiny such narratives maintain a silence on the social, p…
Translating political geographies
Marginalisation, Islamism and The Production of the 'Other's' 'Other
Drawing on the findings of an empirical study of working-class Pakistani Muslims in southern England, this article considers the links between marginalisation, the politics of identity and the position of Pakistani Muslim women. The author shows how marginalisation (emerging from a nexus of oppressions) reinforces 'group' identity, how women are made central to 'group' identity, and how this centrality serves to legitimate their disempowerment. I…
Marginalisation, Islamism and The Production of the 'Other's' 'Other
Drawing on the findings of an empirical study of working-class Pakistani Muslims in southern England, this article considers the links between marginalisation, the politics of identity and the position of Pakistani Muslim women. The author shows how marginalisation (emerging from a nexus of oppressions) reinforces 'group' identity, how women are made central to 'group' identity, and how this centrality serves to legitimate their disempowerment. I…
Postcolonial migrations
In this commentary, we argue for the relevance and importance of postcolonial theory to the study of migration and mobility.Building on a panel discussion at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, we highlight a number of different ways in which this could take place.We suggest three possible interventions: stretching the boundaries of the spaces of the postcolonial; interrogating the spatial connections that are forg…
Spectacular Urbanization amidst Variegated Geographies of Globalization: Learning from Abu Dhabi's Trajectory through the Lives of South Asian Men
The world city aspirations and spectacular urbanization of Gulf cities such as Abu Dhabi rest on the combination of petrodollars, connections and labour. Drawing on interviews with South Asian men working there, this article reports their lives and labour as a mirror to the development of Abu Dhabi. This requires and invites an investigation of spaces of social reproduction, raising broader theoretical and comparative issues about these in the co…
Making Gender Ma(R)King Place: Youthful British Pakistani Muslim Women's Narratives of Urban Space
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 wo…
Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani (Yet the Heart Remains Indian): Bollywood, the 'Homeland' Nation-State, and the Diaspora
Hindi cinema offers a means of examining the evolving geographies of the multisited, multinational Indian diaspora and its relationship to the 'homeland'. The paper seeks to elaborate an understanding of Bollywood's visibility in the new diaspora as a response to political, economic, and technological transformations that have taken place in India. It maps these shifts and the reconfigured relationship between the Indian diaspora in the UK and it…
Transnational shift: Marriage, home and belonging for British-Pakistani Muslim women
This paper draws on an empirical study, based on interviews and observations, of youthful Pakistani Muslim women raised in Birmingham, UK, to explore transnational marriage practices and their potential for reworking sharply gendered patrilineal norms framing marriage conventions, implicating questions of identity, home and belonging. In the South Asian patrilineal system marriage signals migration for women, displacing home across the natal (mai…
Translating political geographies
Shards and Stages: Migrant Lives, Power, and Space Viewed from Doha, Qatar
Qatar has been projecting power through a series of spectacles, investments, and interventions. These include the new Doha skyline; ownership of the tallest building in Europe (London's Shard); Al Jazeera media; involvement in the Libyan and Syrian civil wars; and, importantly, hosting global events such as the 2022 soccer World Cup. Qatar also holds 14 percent of all known natural gas reserves and boasts the world's highest per-capita income. Ou…
Pakistan-An Ungovernable Space
In a recent initiative targeting Muslim extremism in Britain, Communities Secretary Hazel Blears referred to ungoverned spaces, actual and virtual social spaces that facilitate the radicalisation of Pakistani Muslim youth in Britain. By extension, in the West in political and popular constructions Pakistan is also made intelligible as an ungovernable space, with the rise in conflicts and violence in Pakistan and the perceived lawlessness of its t…
Stalingrad in the Hindu Kush? Afpak, Crucibles and Chains of Terror
We write in the aftermath of another bomb attack in a Pakistani city (August 2009). This time it is Lahore, where this year there have already been three attacks striking at the heart of the city. This signals a conflict that is no longer restricted to the distant, remote regions of Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) but is spreading northwards and into Pakistan’s heartlands. The attacks were carried out by the Taliban in retal…
The Cinderella complex – narrating Spanish women's history, the home and visions of equality: Developing new margins
This paper examines the development of feminism in Spain within the context of political transformations. It focuses on one particular strand of feminist thinking: ‘equality feminism’. The paper traces the evolution of equality feminism and its institutionalization, supported by the production and dissemination of a feminist history of the Franquista dictatorship (1936–1939). Yet, under scrutiny such narratives maintain a silence on the social, p…
Fieldwork amid geographies of openness and closure
This commentary on the set of papers on ‘Field methods in “closed contexts” ’ situates the papers within debates in geography about the interrelated politics, praxis and ethics of fieldwork across cultural, political and economic disjuncture and reflects on the geography of openness and closure
Reflections on affect: A meta‐commentary occasioned by Pile (2010) and subsequent exchanges
10.1111/j.1475-5661.2012.00544.x
Reading Peter Hopkins' The Issue of Masculine Identities for British Muslims After 9/11: A Social Analysis
Contrapuntal geographies of post/colonial urban ethnoscapes
Marginalisation, Islamism and The Production of the 'Other's' 'Other
Drawing on the findings of an empirical study of working-class Pakistani Muslims in southern England, this article considers the links between marginalisation, the politics of identity and the position of Pakistani Muslim women. The author shows how marginalisation (emerging from a nexus of oppressions) reinforces 'group' identity, how women are made central to 'group' identity, and how this centrality serves to legitimate their disempowerment. I…
Translating political geographies
British Pakistani Muslim Women: Marking the Body, Marking the Nation
A chapter on British pakistani muslim women
The Cinderella complex – narrating Spanish women's history, the home and visions of equality: Developing new margins
This paper examines the development of feminism in Spain within the context of political transformations. It focuses on one particular strand of feminist thinking: ‘equality feminism’. The paper traces the evolution of equality feminism and its institutionalization, supported by the production and dissemination of a feminist history of the Franquista dictatorship (1936–1939). Yet, under scrutiny such narratives maintain a silence on the social, p…
Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani (Yet the Heart Remains Indian): Bollywood, the 'Homeland' Nation-State, and the Diaspora
Hindi cinema offers a means of examining the evolving geographies of the multisited, multinational Indian diaspora and its relationship to the 'homeland'. The paper seeks to elaborate an understanding of Bollywood's visibility in the new diaspora as a response to political, economic, and technological transformations that have taken place in India. It maps these shifts and the reconfigured relationship between the Indian diaspora in the UK and it…
Pakistan-An Ungovernable Space
In a recent initiative targeting Muslim extremism in Britain, Communities Secretary Hazel Blears referred to ungoverned spaces, actual and virtual social spaces that facilitate the radicalisation of Pakistani Muslim youth in Britain. By extension, in the West in political and popular constructions Pakistan is also made intelligible as an ungovernable space, with the rise in conflicts and violence in Pakistan and the perceived lawlessness of its t…
Stalingrad in the Hindu Kush? Afpak, Crucibles and Chains of Terror
We write in the aftermath of another bomb attack in a Pakistani city (August 2009). This time it is Lahore, where this year there have already been three attacks striking at the heart of the city. This signals a conflict that is no longer restricted to the distant, remote regions of Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) but is spreading northwards and into Pakistan’s heartlands. The attacks were carried out by the Taliban in retal…
Andrew M. Gardner, City of Strangers: Gulf Migration and the Indian Community in Bahrain
Reading Peter Hopkins' The Issue of Masculine Identities for British Muslims After 9/11: A Social Analysis
Reflections on affect: A meta‐commentary occasioned by Pile (2010) and subsequent exchanges
10.1111/j.1475-5661.2012.00544.x
Spectacular Urbanization amidst Variegated Geographies of Globalization: Learning from Abu Dhabi's Trajectory through the Lives of South Asian Men
The world city aspirations and spectacular urbanization of Gulf cities such as Abu Dhabi rest on the combination of petrodollars, connections and labour. Drawing on interviews with South Asian men working there, this article reports their lives and labour as a mirror to the development of Abu Dhabi. This requires and invites an investigation of spaces of social reproduction, raising broader theoretical and comparative issues about these in the co…
Fieldwork amid geographies of openness and closure
This commentary on the set of papers on ‘Field methods in “closed contexts” ’ situates the papers within debates in geography about the interrelated politics, praxis and ethics of fieldwork across cultural, political and economic disjuncture and reflects on the geography of openness and closure
Making Gender Ma(R)King Place: Youthful British Pakistani Muslim Women's Narratives of Urban Space
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 wo…
Postcolonial migrations
In this commentary, we argue for the relevance and importance of postcolonial theory to the study of migration and mobility.Building on a panel discussion at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, we highlight a number of different ways in which this could take place.We suggest three possible interventions: stretching the boundaries of the spaces of the postcolonial; interrogating the spatial connections that are forg…
Contrapuntal geographies of post/colonial urban ethnoscapes
Transnational shift: Marriage, home and belonging for British-Pakistani Muslim women
This paper draws on an empirical study, based on interviews and observations, of youthful Pakistani Muslim women raised in Birmingham, UK, to explore transnational marriage practices and their potential for reworking sharply gendered patrilineal norms framing marriage conventions, implicating questions of identity, home and belonging. In the South Asian patrilineal system marriage signals migration for women, displacing home across the natal (mai…
Shards and Stages: Migrant Lives, Power, and Space Viewed from Doha, Qatar
Qatar has been projecting power through a series of spectacles, investments, and interventions. These include the new Doha skyline; ownership of the tallest building in Europe (London's Shard); Al Jazeera media; involvement in the Libyan and Syrian civil wars; and, importantly, hosting global events such as the 2022 soccer World Cup. Qatar also holds 14 percent of all known natural gas reserves and boasts the world's highest per-capita income. Ou…
Feminist Geography
Feminist geography brings feminist politics and theories together with a geographical focus in examining the relationship between gender relations, place, and space. Feminist perspectives in geography began in the 1970s, and by the end of the 1990s it had gained a considerable institutional presence. Three distinctive phases of development can be identified: geographies of women, socialist feminist geographies, and geographies of difference. The …
Sociology (16 works) · Political science (13 works) · Geography (11 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (7 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Media studies (5 works)