Sarah Hillewaert
Biographic Data
| ID | 77371 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Hillewaert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Hillewaert |
| SIGNATURE | HILLEWAERT S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Roundtable
This roundtable discussion convenes contributors to this special issue for reflections on the diversity of their research questions, approaches, and findings, as well as avenues for further inquiry. The discussion touches on several shared concerns, including the role of lexicalization in improvised forms becoming intelligible, enregistered, and reusable; how improvisational action might implicate action below the threshold of awareness; and more…
Morality at the Margins
Morality at the Margins
This book considers the day-to-day lives of young Muslims on the island of Lamu (Kenya) who live simultaneously “on the edge and in the center”: they are situated at the edge of the (inter)national economy and at the margins of Western notions of modernity; yet they are concurrently the focus of (inter)national campaigns against Islamic radicalization and are at the heart of Western (touristic) imaginations of the untouched and secluded. What doe…
Morality at the Margins
This 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. What does it mean to be young, modern, and Mu…
Identity and belonging on the contemporary Swahili coast
Identity and belonging on the contemporary Swahili coast - 1 - The case of Lamu
Tactics and Tactility
In this article, I approach hand greetings in coastal Kenya as both a form of embodied social action and an everyday tactic used in the presentation of self, the assessment of others, and the negotiation of interpersonal relations. Looking beyond the assumption that a handshake is a simple social performance subject to strategic manipulation, I draw attention to the significance of the felt bodily contact associated with this gesture in order to …
Whoever Leaves Their Traditions Is a Slave
This article examines contemporary discourses on and conceptions ofutumwaor 'slavery' on the Indian Ocean island of Lamu. It discusses how residents of this Swahili town use historical understandings of servitude as moral rather than mere physical subjugation to formulate judgements on current processes of change within the town. Central to the discussion are ideologies ofuungwana(civilization) andheshima(respectability) that historically shaped …
Writing with an Accent
This article considers writing practices on Facebook and examines the use of otherwise stigmatized dialect features on social network sites. Whereas youth from Kenya's Lamu Archipelago avoid Swahili dialects in spoken interaction, they infuse digital exchanges with phonological qualities associated with these vernaculars. I propose that such acts of "writing with an accent," and particularly orthographic signs' ambiguous status as either unintend…
Writing with an Accent
This article considers writing practices on Facebook and examines the use of otherwise stigmatized dialect features on social network sites. Whereas youth from Kenya's Lamu Archipelago avoid Swahili dialects in spoken interaction, they infuse digital exchanges with phonological qualities associated with these vernaculars. I propose that such acts of "writing with an accent," and particularly orthographic signs' ambiguous status as either unintend…
Tactics and Tactility
In this article, I approach hand greetings in coastal Kenya as both a form of embodied social action and an everyday tactic used in the presentation of self, the assessment of others, and the negotiation of interpersonal relations. Looking beyond the assumption that a handshake is a simple social performance subject to strategic manipulation, I draw attention to the significance of the felt bodily contact associated with this gesture in order to …
Morality at the Margins
This 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. What does it mean to be young, modern, and Mu…
Whoever Leaves Their Traditions Is a Slave
This article examines contemporary discourses on and conceptions ofutumwaor 'slavery' on the Indian Ocean island of Lamu. It discusses how residents of this Swahili town use historical understandings of servitude as moral rather than mere physical subjugation to formulate judgements on current processes of change within the town. Central to the discussion are ideologies ofuungwana(civilization) andheshima(respectability) that historically shaped …
Morality at the Margins
This book considers the day-to-day lives of young Muslims on the island of Lamu (Kenya) who live simultaneously “on the edge and in the center”: they are situated at the edge of the (inter)national economy and at the margins of Western notions of modernity; yet they are concurrently the focus of (inter)national campaigns against Islamic radicalization and are at the heart of Western (touristic) imaginations of the untouched and secluded. What doe…
Writing with an Accent
This article considers writing practices on Facebook and examines the use of otherwise stigmatized dialect features on social network sites. Whereas youth from Kenya's Lamu Archipelago avoid Swahili dialects in spoken interaction, they infuse digital exchanges with phonological qualities associated with these vernaculars. I propose that such acts of "writing with an accent," and particularly orthographic signs' ambiguous status as either unintend…
Tactics and Tactility
In this article, I approach hand greetings in coastal Kenya as both a form of embodied social action and an everyday tactic used in the presentation of self, the assessment of others, and the negotiation of interpersonal relations. Looking beyond the assumption that a handshake is a simple social performance subject to strategic manipulation, I draw attention to the significance of the felt bodily contact associated with this gesture in order to …
Whoever Leaves Their Traditions Is a Slave
This article examines contemporary discourses on and conceptions ofutumwaor 'slavery' on the Indian Ocean island of Lamu. It discusses how residents of this Swahili town use historical understandings of servitude as moral rather than mere physical subjugation to formulate judgements on current processes of change within the town. Central to the discussion are ideologies ofuungwana(civilization) andheshima(respectability) that historically shaped …
Identity and belonging on the contemporary Swahili coast
Identity and belonging on the contemporary Swahili coast - 1 - The case of Lamu
Morality at the Margins
Morality at the Margins
This book considers the day-to-day lives of young Muslims on the island of Lamu (Kenya) who live simultaneously “on the edge and in the center”: they are situated at the edge of the (inter)national economy and at the margins of Western notions of modernity; yet they are concurrently the focus of (inter)national campaigns against Islamic radicalization and are at the heart of Western (touristic) imaginations of the untouched and secluded. What doe…
Morality at the Margins
This 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. What does it mean to be young, modern, and Mu…
Roundtable
This roundtable discussion convenes contributors to this special issue for reflections on the diversity of their research questions, approaches, and findings, as well as avenues for further inquiry. The discussion touches on several shared concerns, including the role of lexicalization in improvised forms becoming intelligible, enregistered, and reusable; how improvisational action might implicate action below the threshold of awareness; and more…
Sociology (6 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works)