The Zinjibari Diaspora, 1698-2014: Citizenship, Migration and Revolution in Zanzibar, Oman and the Post-War Indian Ocean
نام عام مواد
[Thesis]
نام نخستين پديدآور
Nathaniel Mathews
نام ساير پديدآوران
Glassman, Jonathon
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
Northwestern University
تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره
2016
مشخصات ظاهری
نام خاص و کميت اثر
342
يادداشت کلی
متن يادداشت
Committee members: McDow, Thomas; Schoenbrun, David
یادداشتهای مربوط به نشر، بخش و غیره
متن يادداشت
Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-15530-3
یادداشتهای مربوط به پایان نامه ها
جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن
Ph.D.
نظم درجات
History
کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده
Northwestern University
امتياز متن
2016
یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
This dissertation is the first full-length ethnographic and historical analysis of the Zinjibari diaspora, a group of Swahili-speaking Arabs living in Oman. The Zinjibaris are largely Omani citizens, but they retain deep ties to Zanzibar, an island their ancestors migrated to and ruled in the nineteenth century. Contemporary Zinjibaris imagine themselves as subjects of a once great Omani empire stretching from Zanzibar to the Congo, and use this imagination to authorize themselves as national citizens. The entanglement of the Zinjibaris with the forms of modern sovereign territorial nationalism we recognize today as Tanzania, Kenya, Zanzibar, Oman and the United Arab Emirates thus helps us understand the strong linkages between diaspora, nation and empire. Despite what other Omanis call them, the Zinjibaris in Oman do not wish to be seen primarily as a Zanzibari diaspora; their traumatic exile from Zanzibar is not the basis for a political movement to recapture the state they lost. Instead, Zinjibaris in Oman narrate themselves as an Omani diaspora in East Africa. Their imagination of East African empire and its religious and civilizational mission has been the basis for a self-conception as cosmopolitan Omani national citizens. The research for this dissertation included ethnographic fieldwork in Oman, oral histories collected in Oman and Zanzibar, and use of archives in Zanzibar, London and Geneva, Switzerland.
موضوع (اسم عام یاعبارت اسمی عام)
موضوع مستند نشده
African Studies; African history; Middle Eastern history
اصطلاحهای موضوعی کنترل نشده
اصطلاح موضوعی
Social sciences;Citizenship;Diaspora;Empire;Migration;Oman;Zanzibar
نام شخص به منزله سر شناسه - (مسئولیت معنوی درجه اول )