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The book describes the worlds where Swahili is spoken as multi-centred contexts that cannot be thought of as located in a specific coastal area of Kenya or Tanzania. The articles presented discuss a range of geographical areas where Swahili is spoken, from Somalia to Mozambique along the Indian Ocean, in Europe and the US. In an attempt to de-essentialize the concepts of translocality and cosmopolitanism, the emphasis of the book is on translocality as experienced by different social strata and by gender and cosmopolitanism as an acquired attitude.
Contributors are: Katrin Bromber, Gerard van de Bruinhorst, Francesca Declich, Rebecca Gearhart Mafazy, Linda Giles, Ida Hadjivayanis, Mohamed Kassim, Kjersti Larsen, Mohamed Saleh, Maria Suriano, Sandra Vianello.
Contributors are: Katrin Bromber, Gerard van de Bruinhorst, Francesca Declich, Rebecca Gearhart Mafazy, Linda Giles, Ida Hadjivayanis, Mohamed Kassim, Kjersti Larsen, Mohamed Saleh, Maria Suriano, Sandra Vianello.
Price: $90.00
Pages: 322
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: African Social Studies Series
Publication Date:
28 June 2018
ISBN: 9789004354074
Format: Paperback
Francesca Declich is Associate Professor at the Università di Urbino. She has been researcher at the Refugee Studies Centre in Oxford, the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM) at Leiden University, the African Studies Center at Northwestern University and the Center for African Studies at Stanford University. She has developed a wide experience in the Western Indian Ocean region by carrying out research projects in southern Somalia, Tanzania and Mozambique as well as conducting research with Somali refugees in the US. She has published numerous articles, chapters and books.