Claire Dwyer
British geographer and academic
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Claire Lucy Dwyer was a British academic, geographer and Professor of human geography at University College London until her death in 2019. Early life and education Dwyer was born in Letchworth 1964 to Michael Dwyer and Brenda Jacques. Her father was a research engineer and her mother was a teacher. She became interested in social geography during her childhood in the garden city of Letchworth. Dwyer attended St Angela's Roman Catholic school in Stevenage. She was an undergraduate student at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, graduating with a first-class geography degree from the University of Oxford in 1987. During her undergraduate degree she spent a year working with Mother Teresa in Calcutta. Dwyer completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Education at the University of Nottingham, and taught at secondary schools in Warminster. She returned to academia and studied for a master's degree in critical feminism at Syracuse University. Her Master of Arts degree was awarded in 1991 for a dissertation on state-funded Muslim schools in the United Kingdom. She then carried out her doctoral research at University College London; supervised by Peter Jackson and Jacquie Burgess, her PhD was awarded in 1997 for her thesis on the construction and contestations of Islam.
Claire Dwyer's Published Works
Published Works
- Negotiating diasporic identities: Young british south asian muslim women (2000) (318)
- Veiled Meanings: Young British Muslim women and the negotiation of differences [1] (1999) (310)
- Cultural Geography: a critical introduction (2002) (310)
- Qualitative methodologies for geographers : issues and debates (2001) (293)
- Explaining Educational Achievement and Career Aspirations among Young British Pakistanis: Mobilizing ‘Ethnic Capital’? (2010) (218)
- Transnationalism and the spaces of commodity culture (2003) (193)
- Qualitative methods: are you enchanted or are you alienated? (2007) (146)
- Contradictions of Community: Questions of Identity for Young British Muslim Women (1999) (144)
- Embodying Nationhood? Conceptions of British National Identity, Citizenship, and Gender in the ‘Veil Affair’ (2010) (124)
- ‘From cricket lover to terror suspect’ – challenging representations of young British Muslim men (2008) (121)
- Introduction: Doing Qualitative Research in Geography (2001) (101)
- Qualitative methods III: animating archives, artful interventions and online environments (2010) (92)
- Faith and suburbia: secularisation, modernity and the changing geographies of religion in London's suburbs (2013) (90)
- Contested identities: challenging dominant representations of young British Muslim women (1997) (84)
- Introduction: The spaces of transnationality (2004) (66)
- Migration, diasporas and transnationalism. (2001) (66)
- Commodifying Difference: Selling EASTern Fashion (2003) (59)
- Putting women in place: Feminist geographers make sense of the world. (2003) (55)
- Fashioning ethnicities (2002) (51)
- Why does religion matter for cultural geographers? (2016) (47)
- Geographies of Muslim Identities: Diaspora, Gender and Belonging (2011) (46)
- Qualitative methods II: minding the gap (2008) (43)
- Geographies of New Femininities (2014) (42)
- ‘Faith in the system?’ State‐funded faith schools in England and the contested parameters of community cohesion (2013) (41)
- The Flag Dispute: Anatomy of a Protest (2014) (40)
- Islam in Europe: The politics of religion and community (1998) (39)
- New Geographies of Race and Racism (2008) (39)
- 'Where are you from? Young British Muslim women and the making of 'home' (2003) (37)
- The geographies of veiling: Muslim women in Britain (2008) (36)
- The institutionalisation of islam in the netherlands and in the uk: The case of islamic schools (1995) (36)
- Constructions of Muslim identity and the contesting of power: the debate over Muslim schools in the United Kingdom (1993) (35)
- Landscapes of diasporic religious belonging in the edge-city: the Jain temple at Potters Bar, outer London (2012) (35)
- The role of self-help efforts in the reintegration of ‘politically motivated’ former prisoners: implications from the Northern Irish experience (2011) (30)
- Linking Research and Teaching: A staff‐student interview project (2001) (29)
- Consuming transnational fashion in London and Mumbai (2007) (26)
- ‘Highway to Heaven’: the creation of a multicultural, religious landscape in suburban Richmond, British Columbia (2016) (24)
- The establishment of Islamic schools. A controversial phenomenon in three European countries (1996) (21)
- Navigating Risk: Understanding the Impact of the Conflict on Children and Young People in Northern Ireland (2014) (18)
- Risk, Politics and the ‘Scientification’ of Political Judgement Prisoner Release and Conflict Transformation in Northern Ireland (2007) (18)
- Beyond “Angry Muslims”? Reporting Muslim Voices in the British Press (2010) (15)
- Expanding DDR: The Transformative Role of Former Prisoners in Community-Based Reintegration in Northern Ireland (2012) (15)
- The Indian diaspora: Dynamics of migration (2008) (15)
- Tracing transnationalities through commodity culture: A case study of British-South Asian fashion (2004) (15)
- Reinventing Muslim Space in Suburbia: The Salaam Centre in Harrow, North London (2015) (15)
- Rethinking the identities of young British Muslim Women (2009) (13)
- Fashioning ethnicities: the commercial spaces of multiculture (2006) (12)
- Introduction: Island geographies: New geographies of race and racism (2009) (12)
- Children’s Rights in Northern Ireland, 2004: Young People’s Version (2004) (11)
- The hidden geographies of religious creativity: place-making and material culture in West London faith communities (2018) (11)
- “They Might as Well Be Walking around the inside of a Biscuit Tin”: Barriers to Employment and Reintegration for ‘Politically Motivated’ Former Prisoners in Northern Ireland (2013) (10)
- Work and wonder at the weekend: on emotions in feminist geographical praxis (2008) (9)
- Qualitative Methodologies for Geographies: Issues and Debates (2001) (9)
- Building the Sacred in Suburbia: Improvisation, Reinvention and Innovation (2015) (8)
- Photographing Faith in Suburbia (2015) (8)
- Muslims in Britain: Rethinking the identities of young British Pakistani Muslim women: educational experiences and aspirations (2009) (8)
- Feeling and Being Muslim and British (2011) (8)
- British Muslims and 'community cohesion' debates (2009) (7)
- Immigrant integration and religious transnationalism: the case of the ‘Highway to Heaven’ in Richmond, BC (2013) (7)
- Studying Diversity, Migration and Urban Multiculture (2019) (7)
- Religion and place: landscape, politics and piety (2013) (6)
- Young People, Criminal Records and Employment Barriers (2015) (5)
- My Life is but a weaving: embroidering geographies of faith and place (2018) (5)
- Growing Up On an Interface: Findings and Implications for the Social Needs, Mental Health and Lifetime Opportunities of Belfast Youth (2016) (5)
- Identities and Subjectivities (2015) (4)
- Case Study: Researching Children’s Rights in the Context of Northern Ireland (2009) (4)
- The New Punitiveness: Trends, Theories, Perspectives. Edited by John Pratt, David Brown, Mark Brown, Simon Hallsworth and Wayne Morrison (Cullompton: Willan Publishing, 2005, 336pp. £19.50 pb, £45.00 hb) (2006) (4)
- ‘Living, changing light’: stained glass art and gendered creativity in the suburban church (2017) (4)
- Migrations and Diaspora (1999) (4)
- Children’s Rights in Northern Ireland, 2004. (2004) (4)
- The Sacred and the Suburban: Atmospherics, numinosity and 1930s interiors in Ealing, London (2015) (4)
- ‘Sometimes I wish I was an “ex” ex-prisoner’: identity processes in the collective action participation of former prisoners in Northern Ireland (2013) (4)
- ‘The ‘Complexity of Imprisonment: The Northern Ireland Experience' (2004) (3)
- Fabrications of India. Transnational Fashion Networks (2006) (3)
- Educational achievement and career aspiration for young British Pakistanis (2011) (3)
- Faith in suburbia a shared photographic journey (2014) (3)
- Experiencing Paramilitarism: Understanding the Impact of Paramilitaries on Young People in Northern Ireland (2018) (3)
- Chapter 20. Consumption (2007) (3)
- "Sometimes I wish I was an 'ex' ex-prisoner" : release and reintegration : the experience of 'politically motivated' former prisoners in Northern Ireland (2010) (3)
- Raising the age of criminal responsibility: endless debate, limited progress (2017) (2)
- ‘Dealing with the Leftovers: Post Conflict Imprisonment in Northern Ireland’ (2008) (2)
- Progress reports (2008) (2)
- Everyday negotiations: Religion in urban life (2016) (2)
- Faith, planning and changing multiculturalism: constructing religious buildings in London’s suburbia (2020) (2)
- Introduction: gendered mobilities and transnational identities (2017) (2)
- Diasporas and Economies (2010) (1)
- An Analysis of Research Conducted with School Children into Children’s Rights in Northern Ireland. (2005) (1)
- Beyond 'angry' Muslims - the representation of Muslim voices in the British press (2010) (1)
- British Pakistanis: Mobilizing 'Ethnic Capital'? Explaining Educational Achievement and Career Aspirations among Young (2013) (1)
- Raise the age? Children's attitudes towards the minimum age of criminal responsibility (2017) (1)
- Spiritualizing the suburbs: new religious architecture in suburbanLondonandVancouver (2016) (1)
- Ethnic and Religious Diversity in the Politics of Suburban London (2018) (1)
- Book Review: Migration, diasporas and transnationalism (2001) (1)
- Rescripting Religion in the City: Migration and Religious identity in the Modern Metropolis (2016) (1)
- Gender, violence and cultures of silence: young women and paramilitary violence (2021) (1)
- Book review forum : Sacred subdivisions : the postsuburban transformation of American evangelicalism, by Justin Wilford (2015) (1)
- Young British Muslim Voices. By Anshuman A. Mondal. Oxford: Greenwood World Publishing, 2008 (2009) (0)
- British Asian Retail Spaces: from suitcase to showroom (2010) (0)
- Fabrications of India. Transnational fashion networks and the making of 'East/West' fashion (2006) (0)
- Fashioning ethnicities: the commerical spaces of multiculture (2012) (0)
- ‘Doing’ Criminal Justice in Northern Ireland: ‘Policy Transfer’, Transitional Justice and Governing Through the Past (2015) (0)
- Paramilitaries still cast shadows over lives of young people in Northern Ireland (2018) (0)
- Book Review: Re-orienting fashion: the gobalization of Asian dress (2004) (0)
- On the edge: the contested cultures of English suburbia (Rupa Huq) (2014) (0)
- Book reviews in Gender, Place and Culture: some analysis and reflections (2008) (0)
- An Introduction to International Migration Studies: European Perspectives (2014) (0)
- Book Reviews (2012) (0)
- My Life is But a Weaving: A collaborative multi-faith project with Artist Katy Beinart (2018) (0)
- Visualising a Sacred City: London, Art and Religion (2019) (0)
- Crime and Criminal Justice in Northern Ireland: Conflict, Transition and the Legacy of the Past (2015) (0)
- Thank you to referees (2015) (0)
- Reviewing the Review: Barriers to implementing the Northern Ireland Youth Justice Review (2018) (0)
- Afterword: Migration, transnationalism, catholicism: Transnational geographies, spaces and practices (2017) (0)
- Feminist Geographies: Intersections of space and gender (2003) (0)
- Thank You to Reviewers (2013–2014) (2014) (0)
- Giving women a voice? Current debates about feminist research methods in geography (1996) (0)
- The fabric of faith: (2019) (0)
- Notes on contributors (2008) (0)
- Making Sacred Space at St Thomas the Apostle (2017) (0)
- Review 2 (2015) (0)
- Special thanks to reviewers (2018) (0)
- Book review: Geographies of Muslim Identities: Diaspora, Gender and Belonging. Edited by Cara Aitchison, Peter Hopkins and Mei-Po Kwan. Aldershot: Ashgate. 2007. x + 208 pp. £50.00 cloth. ISBN: 9780754648888 (2011) (0)
- Multicultural Britain: Current Geographical Debates (2010) (0)
- Religion and place: landscape, politics and piety edited by Peter Hopkins, Lily Kong and Elizabeth Olson Dordrecht: Springer, 2013, 222 pp, ISBN 978‐94‐007‐4684‐8 (2013) (0)
- Notes on contributors (2008) (0)
- Visibly Muslim: fashion, politics, faith (2012) (0)
- Prisoner Reintegration in a Transitional Society: The Northern Ireland Experience (2015) (0)
- Social Geography: A Critical Introduction (2010) (0)
- The Indian Diaspora: Dynamics of Migration – Edited by N. Jayaram (2008) (0)
- Book Review: Dismantling Diasporas: Rethinking the Geographies of Diasporic Identity, Connection and Development (2016) (0)
- Book reviews: Del Casino VJ (2009) Social Geography: A Critical Introduction. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. 336 pp. £50/US$60 cloth, £19.99/US$24 paper. ISBN: 978 1 4051 5499 4 cloth, 978 1 4051 5500 7 paper (2010) (0)
- Governing Justice Through Risk: The Development of Penal and Social Policies in a Transitional Context (2015) (0)
- Book Reviews (2001) (0)
- Gender, geography and Europe (2017) (0)
- Feeling and being British and Muslim (2010) (0)
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