{"product_id":"morality-at-the-margins-youth-language-and-islam-in-coastal-kenya-hardback-9780823286515","title":"Morality at the Margins; Youth, Language, and Islam in Coastal Kenya (Hardback) 9780823286515","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMorality at the Margins\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eYouth, Language, and Islam in Coastal Kenya\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSarah Hillewaert (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780823286515\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 5 November 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e320 pages, 24\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm, 0.532 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book considers the day-to-day lives of young Muslims on Kenya's island of Lamu, who live simultaneously on the edge and in the center. At the margins of the national and international economy and of Western notions of modernity, Lamu's inhabitants nevertheless find themselves the focus of campaigns against Islamic radicalization and of Western touristic imaginations of the untouched and secluded. \u003cbr\u003e What does it mean to be young, modern, and Muslim here? How are these denominators imagined and enacted in daily encounters? Documenting the everyday lives of Lamu youth, this ethnography explores how young people negotiate cultural, religious, political, and economic expectations through nuanced deployments of language, dress, and bodily comportment. Hillewaert shows how seemingly mundane practices—how young people greet others, how they walk, dress, and talk—can become tactics in the negotiation of moral personhood.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMorality at the Margins\u003c\/i\u003e traces the shifting meanings and potential ambiguities of such everyday signs—and the dangers of their misconstrual. By examining the uncertainties that underwrite projects of self-fashioning, the book highlights how shifting and scalable discourses of tradition, modernity, secularization, nationalism, and religious piety inform changing notions of moral subjectivity. In elaborating everyday practices of Islamic pluralism, the book shows the ways in which Muslim societies critically engage with change while sustaining a sense of integrity and morality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePreface \u003c\/i\u003e  ix\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIntroduction \u003c\/b\u003e  1\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eInterlude 1\u003c\/b\u003e: \u003ci\u003eMila Yetu Hufujika \u003c\/i\u003e(Our Traditions Are Being Destroyed), by Mahmoud Ahmed Abdulkadir   41\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1.\u003c\/b\u003e \"This Is Lamu\": Belonging, Morality, and Materiality   46\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2. \u003c\/b\u003eDialects of Morality   76\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eInterlude 2\u003c\/b\u003e: \u003ci\u003ekiSwahili\u003c\/i\u003e, by Mahmoud Ahmed Abdulkadir   114\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3.\u003c\/b\u003e \"Youth\" as a Discursive Construct   121\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e4.\u003c\/b\u003e Reframing Morality through Youthful Voices   153\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eInterlude 3\u003c\/b\u003e: \u003ci\u003eTupijeni Makamama\u003c\/i\u003e (Let's Embrace), by Mahmoud Ahmed Abdulkadir   187\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e5. \u003c\/b\u003eSenses of Morality and Morality of the Senses   191\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eEpilogue \u003c\/b\u003e  233\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAppendix: Note on Language\u003c\/i\u003e   247\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments \u003c\/i\u003e  257\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes \u003c\/i\u003e  261\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBibliography \u003c\/i\u003e  271\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex \u003c\/i\u003e  293\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52580356063512,"sku":"9780823286515","price":87.88,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/morality-at-the-margins-youth-language-and-islam-in-coastal-kenya-hardback-9780823286515","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}