Identity and Lifestyle Construction in Multi-ethnic Shantytowns

A Case Study of Al-Baraka Community in Khartoum, Sudan

Mohamed A. G. Bakhit (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

176 Seiten

2016
Lit Verlag
978-3-643-90677-9 (ISBN)

Infos

This book examines the construction of identity and different lifestyles of the Al-Baraka shantytown community. The concepts of lifestyle and localization process are used as basic tools of analysis to develop a theoretical model that can be applied elsewhere. The localization process reveals how Al-Baraka people adopt different kinds of behaviors, institutions and activities from various origins, and re-invent them locally to be their own. The book concludes that the social identity of Sudan today is not confined to a simplistic binary opposition (Arab vs. African), but is constituted of social identities comprised of more complex sets of practiced lifestyles.

Autor

Mohamed A. G. Bakhit is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Volkswagen Foundation funded research project "Knowledge for Tomorrow - Cooperative Research Projects in Sub-Saharan Africa", coordinated by the Centre for Interdisciplinary African Studies (ZIAF), University of Frankfurt, Germany.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.1.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 157 x 231 mm
• Gewicht: 285 g
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeine Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 3-643-90677-3 / 3643906773
• ISBN-13: 978-3-643-90677-9 / 9783643906779
• Zustand: Neuware