Jeremy Prestholdt
Biographic Data
| ID | 94572 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeremy Prestholdt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeremy |
| FAMILY NAME | Prestholdt |
| SIGNATURE | PRESTHOLDT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California San Diego |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 193 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The Kenyan State and Coastal Muslims: The Politics of Alienation and Engagement
Muslims on Kenya's Indian Ocean coast occupy a 'double periphery', as Kai Kresse has suggested, on the periphery of the wider Muslim world and a minority community at the margins of Kenyan national politics. 1This position, combined with a range of socioeconomic grievances, has contributed to a strong sense of alienation.Since Kenya's independence, the question of how to address this alienation has engendered different, and in some cases competin…
Emigration, Displacement, and Forced Migration in Indian Ocean Africa
Volume 1 of The Cambridge History of Global Migrations documents the lives and experiences of everyday people through the lens of human movement and mobility from 1400 to 1800. Focusing on the most important typologies of preindustrial global migrations, this volume reveals how these movements transformed global paths of mobility, the impacts of which we still see in societies today. Case studies include those that arose from the demand for free,…
Global Currents and the Transformation of Space in Indian Ocean Africa
The Indian Ocean region is a continuum of social, economic, and cultural engagements. It is also a remarkably elastic matrix of human relations that has profoundly influenced and been influenced by global engagements. These interregional engagements raise questions of how to frame global circularities within Indian Ocean pasts. How have imbrications with other world regions affected the networks and boundaries of the Indian Ocean region? And how …
The ends of the Indian Ocean
The blurred geographical and conceptual boundaries of the Indian Ocean region reveal deep engagements with other world regions and variegated spatial reckonings. They also suggest that a coherent Indian Ocean has often served as a powerful and desirable fiction of the collective imagination, a fiction developed by different actors at many historical junctures for different reasons. Tellingly, this perception of the Indian Ocean as a totality is b…
Superpower Symbolic Osama Bin Laden and Millennial Discontent
This chapter charts the uses of Osama bin Laden's image in the first decade of the twenty-first century, a period marked by the 9/11 terrorist attacks, US military interventions, and growing resistance to global inequalities. More than any other iconic figure to emerge in the new millennium, Osama bin Laden provided a symbol for popular frustrations with the neoliberal world order in the global South. In the early 2000s people in multiple world r…
From Zanzibar to Beirut: Sayyida Salme bint Said and the Tensions of Cosmopolitanism
Frank Trentmann. Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First
Domesticating the World: African Consumerism and the Genealogies of Globalization
This book boldly unsettles the idea of globalization as a recent phenomenon—and one driven solely by Western interests—by offering a compelling new perspective on global interconnectivity in the nineteenth century. Jeremy Prestholdt examines East African consumers' changing desires for material goods from around the world in an era of sweeping social and economic change. Exploring complex webs of local consumer demands that affected patterns of e…
Icons of Dissent: The Global Resonance of Che, Marley, Tupac and Bin Laden
The global icon is an omnipresent but poorly understood element of mass culture. This book asks why audiences around the world have embraced particular iconic figures, how perceptions of these figures have changed, and what this tells us about transnational relations since the Cold War era. Prestholdt addresses these questions by examining one type of icon: the anti-establishment figure. As symbols that represent sentiments, ideals, or something …
African Islands: Leading Edges of Empire and Globalization
Zanzibar, the Indian Ocean, and Nineteenth-Century Global Interface
The Fabric of the Indian Ocean World: Reflections on the Life Cycle of Cloth
Gandhi's printing press: Experiments in slow reading
Locating the Indian Ocean: Notes on the Postcolonial Reconstitution of Space
The networks of human relation that define the Indian Ocean region have undergone significant reconfiguration in the last half-century. More precisely, the economic insularity of the region has diminished while the postcolonial nation has both restricted movement and reoriented the political imaginations of people along the rim. At the same time, the Indian Ocean has been revivified as a unit of social exchange and analysis, particularly since th…
Politics of the Soil: Separatism, Autochthony, and Decolonization at the Kenyan Coast
This article examines the perceived interdependence of territorial rights and social identity in colonial Kenya. In the early 1960s, attempts to win full autonomy for a narrow strip of Indian Ocean coastline – the Protectorate of Kenya – encouraged an exclusivist discourse of autochthony. To establish their historical ownership of the coast, both political thinkers who supported and decried coastal separatism emphasized the correlation of race, e…
Africa and The Global Lives of Things
Inquiries into commodification, social distinction, and fashion have offered fresh perspectives on social relations and cultural formations in Africa. Imported consumer goods were both elemental to social relationships and a cornerstone of Africa's global interfaces. This article explores how the social dynamics of consumer demand in Africa were shaped by, and gave shape to, larger social, economic, and political relationships from the sixteenth …
Resurrecting Che: Radicalism, the transnational imagination, and the politics of heroes
This article explores the symbolic appeal of Che Guevara within radical Left circles of the 1960s and 1970s. Che's importance as a shared political reference offers a unique window on aspirational symbols and the desire for meaningful transnational solidarity. By tracing Che's resonance in Latin America, western Europe, the United States, and the Middle East, the article brings into conversation the study of post-war radicalism, political iconogr…
Mirroring Modernity: On consumerism in cosmopolitan Zanzibar
This essay develops an image of nineteenth century Zanzibari consumer sensibilities by demonstrating how goods from and new engagements with distant locales affected the socio-cultural landscape of Zanzibar. The East African port’s particular cosmopolitanism represents one form of social reconstitution stimulated by global integration. It also represents a material vision of global relations that was discounted by nineteenth century theorizations…
Phantom of the Forever War: Fazul Abdullah Muhammad and the Terrorist Imaginary
This essay addresses myths about al Qaeda operative Fazul Abdullah Muhammad and their implications for American foreign policy. The essay demonstrates how Fazul's legend mirrors broader genealogies of information that shape contemporary perceptions of terrorism. Fazul orchestrated two major al Qaeda attacks in Kenya, including the 1998 bombing of the U.S. Embassy, but he has also become the object of fantastic speculation-the product of a psychol…
The afterlives of 2Pac: Imagery and alienation in Sierra Leone and beyond
The popularity of slain American hip-hop star Tupac Shakur has become a global barometer of youth malaise. Taking a multidisciplinary approach that weaves social history, cultural studies and globalization studies, this paper highlights the convergence of socioeconomic alienation and media proliferation since the early 1990s. I argue that this confluence has given rise to new global heroes such as Tupac, icons that have become components of a pla…
Domesticating the WorldAfrican Consumerism and the Genealogies of Globalization: African Consumerism and the Genealogies of Globalization (California World History Library)
This book unsettles the idea of globalization as a recent phenomenon—and one driven solely by Western interests—by offering a new perspective on global interconnectivity in the nineteenth century. The book examines East African consumers' changing desires for material goods from around the world in an era of sweeping social and economic change. Exploring complex webs of local consumer demands that affected patterns of exchange and production as f…
Similitude and Empire: On Comorian Strategies of Englishness
This essay is an inquiry into the cultural domestication of globally circulating objects and symbols before colonialism. It seeks to reveal the efficacy of cross-societal performances of similarity—a strategy of appeal that I call similitude—by demonstrating how the strategic uses of imported consumer goods and cultural symbols by the people of Mutsamudu in the Comoros Islands affected British relationships to Mutsamuduans. Islanders adopted the …
On the Global Repercussions of East African Consumerism
On the Global Repercussions of East African Consumerism
Journal Article On the Global Repercussions of East African Consumerism Get access Jeremy Prestholdt Jeremy Prestholdt assistant professor in the Department of History Northeastern University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 109, Issue 3, June 2004, Pages 755–781, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/109.3.755 Published: 01 June 2004
Portuguese Conceptual Categories and the "Other" Encounter on the Swahili Coast
This article demonstrates some of the conceptual limitations of the "Other" in the analysis of cross-cultural encounters by interrogating early modern Portuguese ideas about Swahili-speakers. Portuguese authors imagined Muslims of the East African coast as "after our fashion," and the intimate, though conflicted, relationships that developed between these two groups illustrate the legacies of such perceptions. The essay challenges the notion that…
Domesticating the World: African Consumerism and the Genealogies of Globalization
This book boldly unsettles the idea of globalization as a recent phenomenon—and one driven solely by Western interests—by offering a compelling new perspective on global interconnectivity in the nineteenth century. Jeremy Prestholdt examines East African consumers' changing desires for material goods from around the world in an era of sweeping social and economic change. Exploring complex webs of local consumer demands that affected patterns of e…
On the Global Repercussions of East African Consumerism
Locating the Indian Ocean: Notes on the Postcolonial Reconstitution of Space
The networks of human relation that define the Indian Ocean region have undergone significant reconfiguration in the last half-century. More precisely, the economic insularity of the region has diminished while the postcolonial nation has both restricted movement and reoriented the political imaginations of people along the rim. At the same time, the Indian Ocean has been revivified as a unit of social exchange and analysis, particularly since th…
Politics of the Soil: Separatism, Autochthony, and Decolonization at the Kenyan Coast
This article examines the perceived interdependence of territorial rights and social identity in colonial Kenya. In the early 1960s, attempts to win full autonomy for a narrow strip of Indian Ocean coastline – the Protectorate of Kenya – encouraged an exclusivist discourse of autochthony. To establish their historical ownership of the coast, both political thinkers who supported and decried coastal separatism emphasized the correlation of race, e…
The afterlives of 2Pac: Imagery and alienation in Sierra Leone and beyond
The popularity of slain American hip-hop star Tupac Shakur has become a global barometer of youth malaise. Taking a multidisciplinary approach that weaves social history, cultural studies and globalization studies, this paper highlights the convergence of socioeconomic alienation and media proliferation since the early 1990s. I argue that this confluence has given rise to new global heroes such as Tupac, icons that have become components of a pla…
Icons of Dissent: The Global Resonance of Che, Marley, Tupac and Bin Laden
The global icon is an omnipresent but poorly understood element of mass culture. This book asks why audiences around the world have embraced particular iconic figures, how perceptions of these figures have changed, and what this tells us about transnational relations since the Cold War era. Prestholdt addresses these questions by examining one type of icon: the anti-establishment figure. As symbols that represent sentiments, ideals, or something …
Similitude and Empire: On Comorian Strategies of Englishness
This essay is an inquiry into the cultural domestication of globally circulating objects and symbols before colonialism. It seeks to reveal the efficacy of cross-societal performances of similarity—a strategy of appeal that I call similitude—by demonstrating how the strategic uses of imported consumer goods and cultural symbols by the people of Mutsamudu in the Comoros Islands affected British relationships to Mutsamuduans. Islanders adopted the …
Resurrecting Che: Radicalism, the transnational imagination, and the politics of heroes
This article explores the symbolic appeal of Che Guevara within radical Left circles of the 1960s and 1970s. Che's importance as a shared political reference offers a unique window on aspirational symbols and the desire for meaningful transnational solidarity. By tracing Che's resonance in Latin America, western Europe, the United States, and the Middle East, the article brings into conversation the study of post-war radicalism, political iconogr…
Mirroring Modernity: On consumerism in cosmopolitan Zanzibar
This essay develops an image of nineteenth century Zanzibari consumer sensibilities by demonstrating how goods from and new engagements with distant locales affected the socio-cultural landscape of Zanzibar. The East African port’s particular cosmopolitanism represents one form of social reconstitution stimulated by global integration. It also represents a material vision of global relations that was discounted by nineteenth century theorizations…
Domesticating the WorldAfrican Consumerism and the Genealogies of Globalization: African Consumerism and the Genealogies of Globalization (California World History Library)
This book unsettles the idea of globalization as a recent phenomenon—and one driven solely by Western interests—by offering a new perspective on global interconnectivity in the nineteenth century. The book examines East African consumers' changing desires for material goods from around the world in an era of sweeping social and economic change. Exploring complex webs of local consumer demands that affected patterns of exchange and production as f…
Portuguese Conceptual Categories and the "Other" Encounter on the Swahili Coast
This article demonstrates some of the conceptual limitations of the "Other" in the analysis of cross-cultural encounters by interrogating early modern Portuguese ideas about Swahili-speakers. Portuguese authors imagined Muslims of the East African coast as "after our fashion," and the intimate, though conflicted, relationships that developed between these two groups illustrate the legacies of such perceptions. The essay challenges the notion that…
Port Cities and Intruders: The Swahili Coast, India, and Portugal in the Early Modern Period
Global Currents and the Transformation of Space in Indian Ocean Africa
The Indian Ocean region is a continuum of social, economic, and cultural engagements. It is also a remarkably elastic matrix of human relations that has profoundly influenced and been influenced by global engagements. These interregional engagements raise questions of how to frame global circularities within Indian Ocean pasts. How have imbrications with other world regions affected the networks and boundaries of the Indian Ocean region? And how …
Phantom of the Forever War: Fazul Abdullah Muhammad and the Terrorist Imaginary
This essay addresses myths about al Qaeda operative Fazul Abdullah Muhammad and their implications for American foreign policy. The essay demonstrates how Fazul's legend mirrors broader genealogies of information that shape contemporary perceptions of terrorism. Fazul orchestrated two major al Qaeda attacks in Kenya, including the 1998 bombing of the U.S. Embassy, but he has also become the object of fantastic speculation-the product of a psychol…
On the Global Repercussions of East African Consumerism
Journal Article On the Global Repercussions of East African Consumerism Get access Jeremy Prestholdt Jeremy Prestholdt assistant professor in the Department of History Northeastern University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 109, Issue 3, June 2004, Pages 755–781, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/109.3.755 Published: 01 June 2004
The Physician and the Slave Trade: John Kirk, the Living-Stone Expeditions, and the Crusade against Slavery in East Africa
John Kirk David Livingstone the slave trade preparations for the unknown enroute another river, more hurdles hardship and violence whispers of adultery the expedition winds down making a new life in Zanzibar getting close to the new Sultan reverberations from Stanley and Livingstone with a stroke of the pen the best of times, the worst of times the crisis of European intrusion Europeans tighten the noose Germany makes its move Kirk - a man of his…
The Physician and the Slave Trade: John Kirk, the Living-Stone Expeditions, and the Crusade against Slavery in East Africa
John Kirk David Livingstone the slave trade preparations for the unknown enroute another river, more hurdles hardship and violence whispers of adultery the expedition winds down making a new life in Zanzibar getting close to the new Sultan reverberations from Stanley and Livingstone with a stroke of the pen the best of times, the worst of times the crisis of European intrusion Europeans tighten the noose Germany makes its move Kirk - a man of his…
Port Cities and Intruders: The Swahili Coast, India, and Portugal in the Early Modern Period
Portuguese Conceptual Categories and the "Other" Encounter on the Swahili Coast
This article demonstrates some of the conceptual limitations of the "Other" in the analysis of cross-cultural encounters by interrogating early modern Portuguese ideas about Swahili-speakers. Portuguese authors imagined Muslims of the East African coast as "after our fashion," and the intimate, though conflicted, relationships that developed between these two groups illustrate the legacies of such perceptions. The essay challenges the notion that…
On the Global Repercussions of East African Consumerism
On the Global Repercussions of East African Consumerism
Journal Article On the Global Repercussions of East African Consumerism Get access Jeremy Prestholdt Jeremy Prestholdt assistant professor in the Department of History Northeastern University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 109, Issue 3, June 2004, Pages 755–781, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/109.3.755 Published: 01 June 2004
Similitude and Empire: On Comorian Strategies of Englishness
This essay is an inquiry into the cultural domestication of globally circulating objects and symbols before colonialism. It seeks to reveal the efficacy of cross-societal performances of similarity—a strategy of appeal that I call similitude—by demonstrating how the strategic uses of imported consumer goods and cultural symbols by the people of Mutsamudu in the Comoros Islands affected British relationships to Mutsamuduans. Islanders adopted the …
Domesticating the WorldAfrican Consumerism and the Genealogies of Globalization: African Consumerism and the Genealogies of Globalization (California World History Library)
This book unsettles the idea of globalization as a recent phenomenon—and one driven solely by Western interests—by offering a new perspective on global interconnectivity in the nineteenth century. The book examines East African consumers' changing desires for material goods from around the world in an era of sweeping social and economic change. Exploring complex webs of local consumer demands that affected patterns of exchange and production as f…
Mirroring Modernity: On consumerism in cosmopolitan Zanzibar
This essay develops an image of nineteenth century Zanzibari consumer sensibilities by demonstrating how goods from and new engagements with distant locales affected the socio-cultural landscape of Zanzibar. The East African port’s particular cosmopolitanism represents one form of social reconstitution stimulated by global integration. It also represents a material vision of global relations that was discounted by nineteenth century theorizations…
Phantom of the Forever War: Fazul Abdullah Muhammad and the Terrorist Imaginary
This essay addresses myths about al Qaeda operative Fazul Abdullah Muhammad and their implications for American foreign policy. The essay demonstrates how Fazul's legend mirrors broader genealogies of information that shape contemporary perceptions of terrorism. Fazul orchestrated two major al Qaeda attacks in Kenya, including the 1998 bombing of the U.S. Embassy, but he has also become the object of fantastic speculation-the product of a psychol…
The afterlives of 2Pac: Imagery and alienation in Sierra Leone and beyond
The popularity of slain American hip-hop star Tupac Shakur has become a global barometer of youth malaise. Taking a multidisciplinary approach that weaves social history, cultural studies and globalization studies, this paper highlights the convergence of socioeconomic alienation and media proliferation since the early 1990s. I argue that this confluence has given rise to new global heroes such as Tupac, icons that have become components of a pla…
Africa and The Global Lives of Things
Inquiries into commodification, social distinction, and fashion have offered fresh perspectives on social relations and cultural formations in Africa. Imported consumer goods were both elemental to social relationships and a cornerstone of Africa's global interfaces. This article explores how the social dynamics of consumer demand in Africa were shaped by, and gave shape to, larger social, economic, and political relationships from the sixteenth …
Resurrecting Che: Radicalism, the transnational imagination, and the politics of heroes
This article explores the symbolic appeal of Che Guevara within radical Left circles of the 1960s and 1970s. Che's importance as a shared political reference offers a unique window on aspirational symbols and the desire for meaningful transnational solidarity. By tracing Che's resonance in Latin America, western Europe, the United States, and the Middle East, the article brings into conversation the study of post-war radicalism, political iconogr…
Politics of the Soil: Separatism, Autochthony, and Decolonization at the Kenyan Coast
This article examines the perceived interdependence of territorial rights and social identity in colonial Kenya. In the early 1960s, attempts to win full autonomy for a narrow strip of Indian Ocean coastline – the Protectorate of Kenya – encouraged an exclusivist discourse of autochthony. To establish their historical ownership of the coast, both political thinkers who supported and decried coastal separatism emphasized the correlation of race, e…
Locating the Indian Ocean: Notes on the Postcolonial Reconstitution of Space
The networks of human relation that define the Indian Ocean region have undergone significant reconfiguration in the last half-century. More precisely, the economic insularity of the region has diminished while the postcolonial nation has both restricted movement and reoriented the political imaginations of people along the rim. At the same time, the Indian Ocean has been revivified as a unit of social exchange and analysis, particularly since th…
Gandhi's printing press: Experiments in slow reading
Zanzibar, the Indian Ocean, and Nineteenth-Century Global Interface
The Fabric of the Indian Ocean World: Reflections on the Life Cycle of Cloth
Superpower Symbolic Osama Bin Laden and Millennial Discontent
This chapter charts the uses of Osama bin Laden's image in the first decade of the twenty-first century, a period marked by the 9/11 terrorist attacks, US military interventions, and growing resistance to global inequalities. More than any other iconic figure to emerge in the new millennium, Osama bin Laden provided a symbol for popular frustrations with the neoliberal world order in the global South. In the early 2000s people in multiple world r…
From Zanzibar to Beirut: Sayyida Salme bint Said and the Tensions of Cosmopolitanism
Frank Trentmann. Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First
Domesticating the World: African Consumerism and the Genealogies of Globalization
This book boldly unsettles the idea of globalization as a recent phenomenon—and one driven solely by Western interests—by offering a compelling new perspective on global interconnectivity in the nineteenth century. Jeremy Prestholdt examines East African consumers' changing desires for material goods from around the world in an era of sweeping social and economic change. Exploring complex webs of local consumer demands that affected patterns of e…
Icons of Dissent: The Global Resonance of Che, Marley, Tupac and Bin Laden
The global icon is an omnipresent but poorly understood element of mass culture. This book asks why audiences around the world have embraced particular iconic figures, how perceptions of these figures have changed, and what this tells us about transnational relations since the Cold War era. Prestholdt addresses these questions by examining one type of icon: the anti-establishment figure. As symbols that represent sentiments, ideals, or something …
African Islands: Leading Edges of Empire and Globalization
The ends of the Indian Ocean
The blurred geographical and conceptual boundaries of the Indian Ocean region reveal deep engagements with other world regions and variegated spatial reckonings. They also suggest that a coherent Indian Ocean has often served as a powerful and desirable fiction of the collective imagination, a fiction developed by different actors at many historical junctures for different reasons. Tellingly, this perception of the Indian Ocean as a totality is b…
Emigration, Displacement, and Forced Migration in Indian Ocean Africa
Volume 1 of The Cambridge History of Global Migrations documents the lives and experiences of everyday people through the lens of human movement and mobility from 1400 to 1800. Focusing on the most important typologies of preindustrial global migrations, this volume reveals how these movements transformed global paths of mobility, the impacts of which we still see in societies today. Case studies include those that arose from the demand for free,…
Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (20 works) · Political science (20 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Law (15 works) · History (13 works) · African history and culture studies (12 works) · Law (12 works) · Art (11 works) · Geography (11 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (9 works)