Networks of Knowledge Production in Sudan (eBook)

Identities, Mobilities, and Technologies

Sondra Hale, Gada Kadoda (Herausgeber)

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2016
318 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-3213-6 (ISBN)

Infos

This book is an interdisciplinary collection of essays studying the intersections of identities, mobilities, and technologies within the context of knowledge production in Sudan—one of the most conflict-ridden and socially diverse landscapes in the world. The essayists look at the effects of diverse technologies such as social media, mobile telephony, trains, and gold mining on the social and economic identities of one of the world’s most highly mobile populations.

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This is the first book of its kind on Sudan, and arguably one of the first in North Africa. We are part of an emerging, more cosmopolitan approach that calls for a reassessment of ideas about not only the concept of identities, but also about migration and technology, especially social media. Our essayists engage in redefinitions, the broadening of our key variables, the linking and intersecting of concepts, and the investigations of methods and ethics, and opt for an approach that is, at once, culturally specific to Sudan (one of the most fluid social landscapes in the world) and transnational. Our essays address the narrowness of studies of migration and note the almost total neglect in the broader Sudan literature of the rise of technology-mobile telephony and social media, in particular. Furthermore, our essayists address the near neglect in the Sudan literature of certain categories of people, such as youth, or certain diverse spaces, such as neighborhoods or gold mines. We have also been attempting to move away from the nearly stereotypic descriptions of Sudan to deal with topics that align Sudan with transnational issues and themes, knowledge production among them. This multidisciplinary collection of essays is the first comprehensive work to grapple explicitly with the question of knowledge production in such a diverse social landscape. We discuss the impact of current trends in information technology and contemporary forms of identity and mobility on knowledge production. These issues are pertinent for different sectors such as academia, government or business, and, as we demonstrate, reveal a myriad of possibilities for studying diverse population groups like youth, women, diaspora, or specific political contexts such as conflict or oppression.

Autor

Sondra Hale is research professor and professor emerita of anthropology and gender studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.Gada Kadoda is lecturer of computer science at the University of Khartoum.

Inhalt

Nancy GallagherPart I. Introductory SectionSondra Hale and Gada KadodaSondra HaleGada KadodaPart II. Perceptions and ValuesEllen GruenbaumRogaia Mustafa AbusharafAtta El-BattahaniAsma Elsony, Sara Hassanain, and Pindai SitholeKatarzyna GrabskaPart III. Expressions and SpacesAsha K.A. ElkaribMargret Otto and Ulrike SchultzJanice BoddyAnita Fábos and AlsarahPart IV. Borders and ResourcesAsma Mohamed Abdel HalimAmina Alrasheed NayelSandra Calkins and Richard Rottenburg

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.9.2016
• Co-Autor: Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf, Katarzyna Grabska, Ellen Gruenbaum, Sondra Hale, Asma M. Abdel Halim, Sara A. Hassanain, Gada Kadoda, Guma K. Komey, Amina Alrasheed Nayel, Margret Otto, Richard Rottenburg, Alsarah, Ulrike Schultz, Pindai Sithole, Janice Boddy, Sandra Calkins, Atta El-Battahani, Asha Elkarib, Asma I. Elsony, Anita Fabos, Nancy Gallagher
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: African Studies • Anthropology • Communication • conflict • Dispora • Disruptive technology • ethnography • Identities • Innovation • Knowledge Production • Mobilities • North Africa • social forces • Social Media • Sudan • Technologies • Women • Youth
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-3213-6 / 1498532136
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-3213-6 / 9781498532136