Room for Otherness: Body, Space, and Materiality in the Investigation of Respect within Multi-Religious Cities and Spaces

The article focuses on the notion of mutual respect and proposes an agential, embodied and spatialized reading of this notion. Looking primarily at the case of coexistence between different religious and non–religious identities in the urban context, the article highlights how more or less respectful relationships stem from the complex interplay between individuals’ performances and the characteristics of the spaces they cross in everyday life. With the aim of guiding empirical research, the article identifies explorative hypotheses for a possible investigation of respect in multi–religious cities and spaces.