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Three dimensions of religious place making in diaspora
Author(s) -
VÁSQUEZ MANUEL A.,
KNOTT KIM
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
global networks
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.685
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1471-0374
pISSN - 1470-2266
DOI - 10.1111/glob.12062
Subject(s) - livelihood , embodied cognition , diaspora , sociology , invisibility , geography , salient , dimension (graph theory) , economic geography , gender studies , computer science , pure mathematics , mathematics , archaeology , artificial intelligence , agriculture
In this article, we explore comparatively how migrant minorities draw from their religious resources to carve out spaces of livelihood in three global cities – Kuala Lumpur, which includes Kajang, Johannesburg and London. We also examine the spatial regimes through which the state and its apparatuses seek to manage the migrants' presence and visibility or invisibility within these urban spaces. In particular, we focus on three of the most salient dimensions of migrants' religious place making – embodied performance, the spatial management of difference and belonging, and multiple embedding across networked spaces. Although these three dimensions intersect in dynamic, often tensile ways to constitute the fabric of the life world of migrant minorities, we separate them for heuristic purposes to highlight the richness and texture of religious place making.