Kirsten Simonsen is Professor in Social and Cultural Geography at Department of People and Technology, Roskilde University, Denmark. Her research concerns issues of philosophy of geography, Nordic geography, spatial conceptualizations, urban theory and everyday practices, and the living of racialized Others in contemporary European Cities.   Lasse Koefoed is Associate Professor at the Department of People and Technology, Roskilde University, Denmark, and is well known within Critical Geography.  His research interests relate to urban geographies, cities and ethnic minorities, nation and nationalism, postcolonialism, cross-cultural encounters and everyday life.

Geographies of Embodiment by Koefoed and Simonsen presents articulate and sophisticated insights into issues about encounters, space and bodies through a practice-orientated reading of phenomenology. The book draws upon four projects over the last fifteen years about cities, encounters and nationalism to offer critical and engaging readings of encounters, embodiment, and the politics of urban life. This is an important text for critical and engaged scholars working in human geography, urban studies and racial and ethnic studies. Peter Hopkins, Professor of Social Geography, Newcastle University

• IntroductionChapter 1. Figuring the grounda.What is critical phenomenologyb.Critical phenomenology as a ‘New Humanism’Chapter 2. Bodies and embodimenta.Thinking the bodyb.Embodied Identitiesc.The temporality and spatiality of the body (including case ‘(re)scaling identities)d.Affectivity and emotionsChapter 3. Encountering the Othera.The concept of encounterb.Different modes of encounterc.Collective planned encountersd.Encounters with authoritiese.Banal everyday encountersChapter 4. Urban Perspectivesa.The Flesh of the urbanb.The urban as a world of strangersc.From invisibility to visibility: Opening of a purpose-built mosque in CopenhagenChapter 5: Political Perspectivesa.Everyday politicsb.Everyday nationalisme.Politics of hospitality

Kirsten Simonsen is Professor in Social and Cultural Geography at Department of People and Technology, Roskilde University, Denmark. Her research concerns issues of philosophy of geography, Nordic geography, spatial conceptualizations, urban theory and everyday practices, and the living of racialized Others in contemporary European Cities.   Lasse Koefoed is Associate Professor at the Department of People and Technology, Roskilde University, Denmark, and is well known within Critical Geography.  His research interests relate to urban geographies, cities and ethnic minorities, nation and nationalism, postcolonialism, cross-cultural encounters and everyday life.

Geographies of Embodiment by Koefoed and Simonsen presents articulate and sophisticated insights into issues about encounters, space and bodies through a practice-orientated reading of phenomenology. The book draws upon four projects over the last fifteen years about cities, encounters and nationalism to offer critical and engaging readings of encounters, embodiment, and the politics of urban life. This is an important text for critical and engaged scholars working in human geography, urban studies and racial and ethnic studies. Peter Hopkins, Professor of Social Geography, Newcastle University

• IntroductionChapter 1. Figuring the grounda.What is critical phenomenologyb.Critical phenomenology as a ‘New Humanism’Chapter 2. Bodies and embodimenta.Thinking the bodyb.Embodied Identitiesc.The temporality and spatiality of the body (including case ‘(re)scaling identities)d.Affectivity and emotionsChapter 3. Encountering the Othera.The concept of encounterb.Different modes of encounterc.Collective planned encountersd.Encounters with authoritiese.Banal everyday encountersChapter 4. Urban Perspectivesa.The Flesh of the urbanb.The urban as a world of strangersc.From invisibility to visibility: Opening of a purpose-built mosque in CopenhagenChapter 5: Political Perspectivesa.Everyday politicsb.Everyday nationalisme.Politics of hospitality