Identity and Lifestyle Construction in Multi-ethnic Shantytowns : A Case Study of Al-Baraka Community in Khartoum, Sudan

ISBN-13: 9783643906779 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 174 str.

Mohamed A. Bakhit

Opis

This dissertation 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 author concludes that the social identity of Sudan today is not confined to a simplistic binary opposition (Arab vs. African), but is constituted by social identities comprised of more complex sets of practiced lifestyles. (Series: Contributions to the Africa Research / Beitrage zur Afrikaforschung, Vol. 64) Subject: African Studies, Politics, Sociology]

O autorze

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.