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Emergent SpacesBuilding Community Centers in Living Rooms: Piety Movements, Domestic Space, and Women in Islamabad, Pakistan

Emergent Spaces: Building Community Centers in Living Rooms: Piety Movements, Domestic Space, and... [Middle-class homemakers in Islamabad are often isolated due to their discomfort with the transportation and retail options available in their neighborhoods. This chapter traces the process through which women in one neighborhood overcame these spatial barriers by building community through the use of a small living room, starting a process of change which, while mediated by the piety movement Al-Huda, drew on resources and individuals unconnected with the movement. Small urban spaces are sites for negotiation and adaptation, and the women of the neighborhood drew on the living room to construct a supportive community providing childcare, socialization, and moral guidance. This paper explores the ways in which my informant’s initial offering of her living room for Al-Huda use resulted in the construction of a community space, and explores the possibility that piety movements’ growing popularity in urban Pakistan can be tied to their facilitation of emergent spaces for community building.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Emergent SpacesBuilding Community Centers in Living Rooms: Piety Movements, Domestic Space, and Women in Islamabad, Pakistan

Part of the Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology Book Series
Editors: Kuppinger, Petra
Zaman, Meryem
Emergent Spaces — Jan 1, 2022
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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
ISBN
978-3-030-84378-6
Pages
145 –161
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-84379-3_8
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Abstract

[Middle-class homemakers in Islamabad are often isolated due to their discomfort with the transportation and retail options available in their neighborhoods. This chapter traces the process through which women in one neighborhood overcame these spatial barriers by building community through the use of a small living room, starting a process of change which, while mediated by the piety movement Al-Huda, drew on resources and individuals unconnected with the movement. Small urban spaces are sites for negotiation and adaptation, and the women of the neighborhood drew on the living room to construct a supportive community providing childcare, socialization, and moral guidance. This paper explores the ways in which my informant’s initial offering of her living room for Al-Huda use resulted in the construction of a community space, and explores the possibility that piety movements’ growing popularity in urban Pakistan can be tied to their facilitation of emergent spaces for community building.]

Published: Jan 1, 2022

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