Indians in Kenya: the politics of diaspora
by Aiyar, Sana
fromHarvard historical studies
"Indians in Kenya chronicles the competing, often contradictory, strategies by which the South Asian diaspora sought a political voice in Kenya from the beginning of colonial rule in the late 1890s to independence in the 1960s. Indians' intellectual, economic, and political conn…
Pentecostalism is currently the fastest-growing Christian movement, with hundreds of millions of followers. This growth overwhelmingly takes place outside of the West, and women make up 75 percent of the membership. The contributors to 'Spirit on the Move' examine Pentecostalism…
Religion and the global city
by Strhan, Anna
fromBloomsbury studies in religion, space and place
This thesis is a historical study of a commercial partnership between two families of Sephardic Jews, the Ergas and the Silvera, which was based in Livorno (Tuscany) and Aleppo (Syria) and operated during the first half of the eighteenth century, when Livorno was the most import…
This manuscript explored the movement and creation of Diasporas. The long historical engagement of language, religion, and material cultures between Africa and the Americas fostered the emergence of groups of Afrolatinos that identify with many coasts along the African Diaspora.…
This dissertation explores exilic human rights literature as the literary genre encompassing under its aegis thematic and textual concerns and characteristics contiguous with dissident literature, resistance literature, postcolonial literature, and feminist literature. Departing…
4e de couv.: Cultural Grammars of Nation, Diaspora, and Indigeneity in Canada considers how the terms of critical debate in literary and cultural studies in Canada have shifted with respect to race, nation, and difference. In asking how Indigenous and diasporic interventions hav…