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Managing Strangerhood: Young Sikh Men's Strategies

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  • Peter Hopkins

    (School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, England)

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This paper offers a critique of accounts of ‘the stranger’ that lack empirical grounding and are fetishising, suspicious, and anxious. Instead, I propose that we should engage with strangers and move towards more relational, emotional, and embodied accounts of the place of the stranger in contemporary society. In order to illustrate this argument, I draw upon qualitative research with young Sikh men growing up in urban Scotland to explore the complex strategies enacted by these young men in responding to being placed in the position of the stranger. The strategies employed by the young men include educating others, managing multicultural intimacies, affiliating with the Scottish nation, and travelling far to socialise with friends. Overall, this paper offers a relational, embodied, and emotional set of insights into young Sikh men's strategies for managing being cast as strangers and demonstrates the agency and creativity of the young men in doing so.

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  • Peter Hopkins, 2014. "Managing Strangerhood: Young Sikh Men's Strategies," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 46(7), pages 1572-1585, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:46:y:2014:i:7:p:1572-1585
    DOI: 10.1068/a46263
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