Symbolic Spaces of Difference
Contesting the Eruv in Barnet, London and Tenafly, New Jersey
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4476266 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sophie Watson (0000-0002-1919-1498, Sociology Discipline, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, England, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 597-613 |
| Publication date | 2005-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1068/d429 |
| OpenAlex | W2014842614 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 25 |
| References cited | 7 |
In this paper I explore discourses and resistances mobilized around the construction of an Orthodox Jewish symbolic and material concrete space, the 'eruv', in two localities (one in the United Kingdom, one in the USA) where it has been at the center of heated debate and contestation. Conflicts around the reordering and redefining of this public space expose some of the limits of living with difference and normative versions of multiculturalism in the city. Through a detailed examination of two case studies in the United Kingdom and the United States I conclude that the multicultural city necessitates a recognition of symbolic as well as material spaces-and the interconnections between these-and that the notion of public space warrants interrogation as to how it is imagined, read, and experienced in multiple ways
Interrogation · Multiculturalism · Normative · Pedagogy · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Public space · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · The Symbolic · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Computer Science · Engineering · Gender Studies · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Psychology · Religious Tourism and Spaces
Planning in the multicultural city
Delineating Active Citizenship
The difference a wire makes
Performing the Public Man
Religion as practices of attachment and materiality
Contestations and cooperation in Muslim–Jewish neighbourhood encounters
A bridge too far
Death in the Peripheries
Infrasecular geographies
Global shifts, theoretical shifts
Young people, masculinities, religion and race
Planning, pluralism and religious diversity
Faith, race, and auto-gentrification
Framing Spatial‐Religious Conflicts
Strongholding the Synagogue to Stronghold the City
An Eruv for St Ives? Religion, identity, place and conflict on the Sydney north shore
Retheorizing the Postsecular Present
Geographies of consumption
Conceptualising the role of cities in the governance of religious diversity in Europe
Nones in Space
Bonding by doing
Geographic roots, anthropological routes
Creating Place, Creating Community
À la vue d'une soucca. Partage de l'espace et controverses dans le quartier d'Outremont à Montréal
The Model of Integration? Social and Spatial Transformations in the Leeds Jewish Community
| Unique citing works | 25 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,32 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2026 (20) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 25 |