Zanzibar's Arab Diaspora Families and Decolonization in the Western Indian Ocean 1964-2014

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Titre

Zanzibar's Arab Diaspora Families and Decolonization in the Western Indian Ocean 1964-2014

Type

Conférence

Créateur

Matthews, Nathaniel Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Date

2023-05-31

Résumé

This talk is an overview of my book manuscript under review. The book is a history of the shifts and re-orderings in nationality and citizenship among a networked group of diasporic post-revolution exiles of mixed Arab and African descent, during the era of decolonization in the Indian Ocean, from the 1950s through the 1970s. Through use of archival documents, oral histories, and locally published vernacular works, ZWAC weaves together the story of a postcolonial diaspora from Zanzibar as they become exiles, emigres and Omani citizens. In seven chapters, it traces the diverse modern historical experiences within this group up into the twenty-first century: as ‘Zanzibari’ anti- colonial nationalists, as ‘Manga refugees’ shipped to Oman, as exiles and political dissidents in the UK and Dubai, as ethnic returnees to Oman, and as popular intellectuals of Zanzibar's history in Oman. ZWAC argues that these experiences demand we see Indian Ocean diasporas as not antithetical to nationalism, but as shapers of multiple national discourses not only through discourse of homeland elsewhere but through direct participation in the development of the territorial nation-state.

Place

Leibniz

Langue

eng

uri

https://www.zmo.de/en/events/zanzibars-arab-diaspora-families-and-decolonization-in-the-western-indian-ocean

Matthews, Nathaniel, “Zanzibar's Arab Diaspora Families and Decolonization in the Western Indian Ocean 1964-2014”, 2023-05-31, bibliographie, consulté le 18 septembre 2024, https://ibadica.org/s/bibliographie/item/21211