“To Everyone Who Told Zanzis That They Are Not Omani”: Young Swahili-speaking Omanis’ Belonging in Postdiaspora Oman
Contenu
- Titre
- “To Everyone Who Told Zanzis That They Are Not Omani”: Young Swahili-speaking Omanis’ Belonging in Postdiaspora Oman
- Créateur
- Fay, Franziska Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur
- Date
- 2022
- Dans
- Arabian Humanities. Revue internationale d’archéologie et de sciences sociales sur la péninsule Arabique/International Journal of Archaeology and Social Sciences in the Arabian Peninsula Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur
- Résumé
- In this article, I explore some of the contemporary forms of expression that young Swahili-speakers below the age of 35 turn to in Oman to make claims to Omani citizenship and belonging. Building on long-standing discussions of Zanzibari-Omani identity, I discuss how second and third generation Zanzibari-Omanis of mixed backgrounds negotiate a sense of being both ‘Swahili’ and ‘Arab’ as part of their broader understandings of what it means to be Omani. I propose that foregrounding young Swahili-speaking Omani people’s modes of blending belongings can contribute to conversations on what it means to be ‘young’, ‘Omani’, ‘Swahili-speaking’ and a second or third generation postdiasporan. The article builds on exploratory fieldwork conducted in Oman in 2018 and 2019. It examines young people’s creative expressions through digital social media and against the backdrop of the Oman Vision 2040. These additional sources shed further light on some of the meanings of being a young Swahili-speaker in present-day Oman.
- Sujet
- #nosource Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur
- Langue
- eng
- numéro
- 15
- issn
- 1248-0568
- Titre abrégé
- “To Everyone Who Told Zanzis That They Are Not Omani”
- Droits
- Ce document est mis à disposition selon les termes de la Licence Creative Commons Attribution - Partage dans les Mêmes Conditions 4.0 International.
Fay, Franziska, ““To Everyone Who Told Zanzis That They Are Not Omani”: Young Swahili-speaking Omanis’ Belonging in Postdiaspora Oman”, 2022, bibliographie, consulté le 8 septembre 2024, https://ibadica.org/s/bibliographie/item/13414
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