Intersectionality, intergenerational relations, and relationality: revisiting youthful Muslim masculinities

Hopkins, P

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-64811-3_32

Intersectionality, intergenerational relations, and relationality: revisiting youthful Muslim masculinities

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Abstract

In this chapter, I reflect upon the factors that led me to conduct the research that led to the publication of youthful Muslim masculinities, including the specific social context in which I grew up. I point to my early interest in geographies of race and racism - and scholarship about young Muslim women - and how this informed my interest in gendered religious embodiment, identities, and places. I then consider three ways in which the publication of youthful Muslim masculinities has shaped my research. First, I reflect upon the intersections of race, religion, youth, and masculinities to consider how this work has shaped my interest in, and contributions to, employing intersectionality in geography in a way that is sensitive to its origins in Black feminist research and activism, and to the earlier work in geography that adopted an intersectional perspective. Second, I consider how the interest in intergenerational relations that characterises youthful Muslim masculinities has animated my recent collaborative work about young Christians’ formation of their religious identities and their participation in faith-based international volunteering projects. Third, I reflect upon the utility of relational thinking and how this remains an important challenge for geographies of religion.Muslim, young people, intersectionality, intergenerationality, relationality