PPR486 Interrogating Political and Religious Spaces

Objectives

Examining the relationship between space, knowledge and power is vital for understanding political and religious life. Space isn't just a blank canvas or empty container on or in which the important things of life happen. It is productive and dynamic; it has an impact on relationships and events, and is shaped and influenced by them. The module focuses on the following topics.

• Thinking, embodying and performing space
• Theorising space and place
• Geographies of politics and religion
• The poetics and politics of space
• A methodology for interrogating religious and political spaces
• Small spaces; big issues
• Sacred space and the ritual spaces of politics
• Anti-capitalist spaces
• Religion in secular spaces

This module is designed to appeal to both politics and religious studies students. Theories and methods for examining political and religious spaces will be introduced as well as a range of case studies. The module will provide resources to think spatially about politics and/or religion that can be applied in essays and dissertations.

Select Bibliography

C. Barnett and M. Low, eds, Spaces of Democracy: Geographical Perspectives on Citizenship, Participation and Representation, Sage, 2004.

D. Chidester and E. T. Linenthal, eds. American Sacred Space. Indiana University Press, 1995.

D. Featherstone, Resistance, Space and Political Identities: The Making of Counter-Global Networks, Blackwell, 2008.

P. Hubbard, R. Kitchen and G. Valentine, eds, Key Thinkers on Place and Space, Sage, 2004.

K. Knott, The Location of Religion: A Spatial Analysis. Equinox, 2005.

H. Lefebvre, The Production of Space. Blackwell, 1991.

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