Cultures citadines dans l'océan Indien occidental (XVIIIe - XXIe siècles)

Cultures citadines dans l'océan Indien occidental (XVIIIe - XXIe siècles)

Author: Faranirina V. Rajaonah

Publisher: KARTHALA Editions

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 554

ISBN-13: 2811105077

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Le caractère cosmopolite des villes en fait des points d'observation privilégiée des sociétés pluriculturelles du carrefour de l'océan Indien occidental. De différentes disciplines, les auteurs étudient ici, sur le temps long (XVIIIe-XXIe siècles) et à partir de sources variées (écrites, orales et matérielles), les rencontres qui ont contribué à la formation de "cultures des franges" aux Mascareignes, à Madagascar, dans l'archipel des Comores, au Kenya, en Tanzanie, au Mozambique. Ainsi, l'aménagement des espaces de vie renvoie à des métissages entre des ressources de l'ici et de l'ailleurs : l'Occident ou d'autres horizons du monde indianocéanique. Des processus comparables d'hybridation sont encore perceptibles dans les domaines de la langue, de la musique, de la danse ou du politique dans des cités mieux connectées que les campagnes à l'étranger, volontiers associé à la modernité. Dans cet entrecroisement des cultures, la circulation ne se fait jamais dans un seul sens, même en situation coloniale. A l'occasion de ces échanges, certains individus et groupes sociaux, étrangers ou du cru, jouent le rôle de passeurs et contribuent au dynamisme de leurs cités. A côté des élites, des jeunes de divers milieux diffusent également les innovations. L'inventivité de la jeunesse peut d'ailleurs infléchir le cours de la politique. Grâce à ces intermédiaires, les cités renforcent leur statut de lieux de pouvoir. Mais, autres médiateurs, des gens de lettres dénoncent, à travers des romans et des poèmes, les dangers de la ville et la précarité des citadins les plus démunis. En effet, malgré des moments sous le signe de l'interculturalité ou du partage, ainsi lors de fêtes, les sociétés urbaines, traversées de multiples clivages, connaissent des tensions. En témoignent des conflits autour du contrôle des informations et de l'occupation des lieux de culte ou la concurrence entre les défenseurs des croyances du terroir et les prédicateurs des nouvelles Eglises. Mais les nouveautés sont aussi utilisées dans les stratégies personnelles comme ressources pour renégocier sa place au sein de la communauté et faire son chemin dans la complexité des mondes urbains.


The Colonial Dream

The Colonial Dream

Author: Damien Tricoire

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2023-03-06

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 3110715317

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The series aims at publishing works operating at the intersections of political theory, intellectual and conceptual history, and empirically dense socio-economic and political analyses of power. The works published in this series will place particular emphasis on the transregional – transimperial, transnational, transcultural – and the transtemporal orientation of political concepts and practices of power, with a special focus on idioms of rulership, political normativity and order, as well as subversion and rebellion against such regimes.


Africa. N.S. IV/1, 2022

Africa. N.S. IV/1, 2022

Author: Autori Vari

Publisher: Viella Libreria Editrice

Published: 2022-07-06T11:21:00+02:00

Total Pages: 133

ISBN-13:

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Articoli / Articles Jorge García Sánchez, The Promotion of Tourism in Carthage (Tunisia) during the American Archaeological Excavations (1921-1925) Federico Cresti, Al-Jaghbūb, the Libyan Holy City of the Ṭarīqa al-Sanūsīya: A Photographic Reconstruction Liliana Mosca, Fianarantsoa, la capitale du sud de Madagascar : de la ville royale à la ville coloniale Dawit Abraha, Nelly Cattaneo, Cinzia Monopoli, Hielen Tekeste Berhe, Asmära: Portraits of a Contemporary City Recensioni / Reviews Florence Brisset-Foucault, Talkative Polity: Radio, Domination, and Citizenship in Uganda (Alessandro Jedlowski) Carlo Piaggia e le sue esplorazioni africane (1851-1882), edited by Luca Lupi (Massimo Zaccaria) Autori / Contributors


The Diaspora of the Comoros in France

The Diaspora of the Comoros in France

Author: Katharina Fritsch

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2022-07-15

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 1000614174

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Based on an ethnographic study of mobilisations of the Comorian diaspora in Marseille during political and cultural events, the book examines communitarisation in relation to three thematic areas, namely spaces, cultural markets and local politics. Drawing on Foucault’s concept of the dispositif, the author analyses mobilisations of postcolonial diaspora as part of a dispositif of communitarisation, that is, a set of discourses, practices, institutions and subjectivations of diasporic community. She argues that constructions of ‘community’ are both shaped by and shape ethnicised biopolitics, expressed by modes of governing diasporic groups along ethnicised divisions and a marking of ethnicised communities as the Other of the French Republic. The performativity of a Comorian community brought into being through political, cultural, economic and customary practices also shows how Comorian communities govern themselves along ethnicised categories, at the intersection with generation, gender, age classes, locality and class. Communitarisation processes as part of ethnicised (self-)governing reveal postcolonial power relations in France as well as practices of negotiation and contestation on the part of Comorian communities. This book will be of interest to scholars in the fields of critical diaspora studies, critical ethnography, discourse and dispositif analysis, postcolonial politics, and the African diaspora.


Global Renewal Christianity

Global Renewal Christianity

Author: Vinson Synan

Publisher: Charisma Media

Published: 2016-08-02

Total Pages: 564

ISBN-13: 1629989371

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This third of four volumes is an authoritative collection from more than two dozen leaders and scholars of the Spirit-empowered movement in Africa.


Banished potentates

Banished potentates

Author: Robert Aldrich

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2017-12-27

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 1526113430

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Though the overthrow and exile of Napoleon in 1815 is a familiar episode in modern history, it is not well known that just a few months later, British colonisers toppled and banished the last king in Ceylon. Beginning with that case, this volume examines the deposition and exile of indigenous monarchs by the British and French – with examples in India, Burma, Malaysia, Vietnam, Madagascar, Tunisia and Morocco – from the early nineteenth century down to the eve of decolonisation. It argues that removal of native sovereigns, and sometimes abolition of dynasties, provided a powerful strategy used by colonisers, though European overlords were seldom capable of quelling resistance in the conquered countries, or of effacing the memory of local monarchies and the legacies they left behind.


Children of the Soil

Children of the Soil

Author: Tasha Rijke-Epstein

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2023-09-08

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 1478027401

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In Children of the Soil, Tasha Rijke-Epstein offers an urban history of the port city of Mahajanga, Madagascar, before, during, and after colonization. Drawing on archival and ethnographic evidence, she weaves together the lives and afterlives of built spaces to show how city residents negotiated imperial encroachment, colonial rule, and global racial capitalism over two centuries. From Mahajanga’s hilltop palace to the alluvial depths of its cesspools, the city’s spaces were domains for ideological debates between rulers and subjects, French colonizers and indigenous Malagasy peoples, and Comorian migrants and Indian traders. In these spaces, Mahajanga’s residents expressed competing moral theories about power over people and the land. The built world was also where varying populations reckoned with human, ancestral, and ecological pasts and laid present and future claims to urban belonging. Migrants from nearby Comoros harnessed built forms as anticipatory devices through which they sought to build their presence into the landscape and transform themselves from outsiders into "children of the soil" (zanatany). In tracing the centrality of Mahajanga’s architecture to everyday life, Rijke-Epstein offers new ways to understand the relationships between the material world, the more-than-human realm, and the making of urban life.


Film Remakes, Adaptations and Fan Productions

Film Remakes, Adaptations and Fan Productions

Author: K. Loock

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-10-23

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 1137263350

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A dynamic investigation of processes of cultural reproduction – remaking and remodelling – which considers a wide range of film adaptations, remakes and fan productions from various industrial, textual and critical perspectives.


Connectivity in Motion

Connectivity in Motion

Author: Burkhard Schnepel

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-10-30

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 3319597256

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This original collection brings islands to the fore in a growing body of scholarship on the Indian Ocean, examining them as hubs or points of convergence and divergence in a world of maritime movements and exchanges. Straddling history and anthropology and grounded in the framework of connectivity, the book tackles central themes such as smallness, translocality, and “the island factor.” It moves to the farthest reaches of the region, with a rich variety of case studies on the Swahili-Comorian world, the Maldives, Indonesia, and more. With remarkable breadth and cohesion, these essays capture the circulations of people, goods, rituals, sociocultural practices, and ideas that constitute the Indian Ocean world. Together, they take up “islandness” as an explicit empirical and methodological issue as few have done before.