‘And did those feet’? Mapmaking London and the Postcolonial Limits of Psychogeography

Psychogeography: Walking through strategy, nature and narrative

“…Yet walking to (and from) and/or into a mosque for a Jumu'ah also becomes an integral aspect of Muslim Ibadah and Gilsenan is mindful of the 'punctuated' time and space and attendant 'rhythms and movements ' (p. 202). In some parallel steps, Paul March-Russell (2013) returns to one of the established centres of psychogeography, critiquing the whiteness of psychogeographical writing on London and the absence of black and Muslim Londoners charting postcolonial pathways through the metropolis. And UCLA-based historian Nile Green recalls that, when a student of Islamic history at The University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies in 1990s, he would spend time with Muslim communities around Brick Lane, not far from the East London locus of Iain Sinclair's psychogeography.…”