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Siddi marriage: re-signifying contract, transactions and identities
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In this article, the socio-cultural significance of Africa and South Asia dynamics is explored by focusing on Siddi "love" (when two people choose their own partner) and "arrange...Abstract:
This article contributes to new pathways towards the socio-cultural significance of Africa – South Asia dynamics, by focusing on Siddi ‘love’ (when two people choose their own partner) and ‘arrange...read more
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The Western Indian Ocean African Diaspora and #BlackLivesMatter: Situating Siddi, Sheedi, and Ceylon African Struggles and Politics
TL;DR: In this article , a content analysis of eight digital news reports published between June 2020 and March 2021 that link anti-Blackness in South Asia to the concerns of #BlackLivesMatter following George Floyd's murder and the heightened global attention to issues of anti-black racism against African Americans is presented.
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Occult economies and the violence of abstraction: notes from the South African postcolony
Jean Comaroff,John L. Comaroff +1 more
TL;DR: This paper argued that the major lines of opposition have been not race or class but generation, mediated by gender, and that the encounter of rural South Africa with the contradictory effects of millennial capitalism and the culture of neoliberalism brings "the global" and "the local" into a dialectical interplay.
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Youth and the Social Imagination in Africa: Introduction to Parts 1 and 2
TL;DR: Youth are an increasingly compelling subject for study in Africa, entering into political space in highly complex ways as mentioned in this paper, and youth is constructed as a problematic category and how it acts as a "social shifter" engaging the social imagination.