On Lefebvre's orientalism and geography's Eurocentrism in Sidaway's ‘critical Muslim geographies’

2024/09/03 by Daniel Clayton · 1 voice · 2 citations
Social Sciences · #Diaspora, migration, transnational identity #Islamic Studies and History #Anthropological Studies and Insights

paper · doi:10.1177/20438206241278727

openalex publication_date 2024/09/03 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/14

Abstract

This commentary picks up on how James Sidaway sets up his ‘critical Muslim geographies’ through a selective reading and critique of Western geography's Eurocentrism. It traces how Isaiah Bowman, Henri Lefebvre, and Neil Smith are used for this purpose, and then homes in on Sidaway's reading of Lefebvre's flippant Orientalism and elision of tier-mondism, suggesting that fuller investigation of this scene is warranted.

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