Navigating Colour-Blind Societies - A Comparative Ethnography of Muslim Urban Life in Copenhagen

This book is a comparative ethnography of racialisation, class, and gender in the lives of young Muslims coming of age in societies, where race is deemed insignificant.

List of contents

Introduction: Muslims in Colour-Blind Societies; Part I: Muslim Racialisation and its Affects; 1. Assemblages of Muslim racialisation; 2. Middle-Class Muslim Respectability in Copenhagen; 3. Gendered Islamophobia, Representation and The Hijab in Montreal; Part II: Muslim Pathways and Spatial Narratives; 4. Contesting Racialised Spaces in Copenhagen; 5. Spatial Biographies and rootedness in Montreal; 6. Space, Time, and the Urban Muslim; Conclusion: Navigating Colour-Blind Societies

About the author

Amani Hassani is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Brunel University. She is an urban ethnographer working at the intersection of sociology, anthropology, and human geography. Her research explores the connection between racialisation and spatialisation, focusing on Muslim populations in the Global North. She has written widely on racialisation, Islamophobia, and Muslim experiences in academic and public domains.

Product details

• Authors: Amani Hassani, Amani (Brunel University Hassani
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.05.2025
• EAN: 9781032279299
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3227929-9
• No. of pages: 164
• Series: Routledge Advances in Ethnography
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Ethnic Studies, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Nationalism, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, Social and cultural anthropology, Civil rights & citizenship, Civics and citizenship, Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies, Centrist democratic ideologies