“Saying Nothing Is Saying Something”: Affective Encounters with the Muslim Other in Amsterdam Public Transport

Taking the Muslim other into consideration, this article investigates Muslims’ everyday encounters within (im)mobile spaces of public transport that entangle bodies with different histories, backgrounds, and imaginaries. Building on affective atmospheres, I propose an embodied understanding othering practices traveling difference in transport. Employing (auto)ethnography Amsterdam, present as a cross-cultural meeting place spatial negotiation to study travel experiences young Muslims. Contributing field mobilities studies, bridges gap empirical evidence role transport, race, religion