Caitlyn Bolton
Biographic Data
| ID | 9460569 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Caitlyn Bolton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Caitlyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Bolton |
| SIGNATURE | BOLTON C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Anthropology Program, Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY), New York City, NY, USA, [email protected] |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Useful” Knowledge and Moral Education in Zanzibar Between Colonial and Islamic Reform, 1916–1945
The introduction of colonial schooling in Zanzibar was aimed at improving economic productivity, drawing on an exchange of educational theory with the American South to ensure a labor supply for the post-emancipation plantation economy. Yet colonial officials faced a key problem: students did not attend, preferring instead to continue studying in Qur’anic schools, institutions roundly derided by colonial officials. To secure attendance, colonial …
Islamic Scholarship in Africa
Community Agency and Islamic Education in Contemporary Zanzibar
Western liberal political philosophy, which undergirds the conception of the modern nation-state as theorized by European philosophers of liberalism from centuries past, is primarily concerned with the dynamics of rights and responsibilities between the individual and state institutions. In defining these dynamics, some philosophers held an assumption of human nature as inherently inclined toward selfish ends
Making Africa Legible
European colonialism and missionization in Africa initiated a massive orthographic shift across the continent, as local languages that had been written for centuries in Arabic letters were forcibly re-written in Roman orthography through language standardization reforms and the introduction of colonial public schools. Using early missionary grammars promoting the “conversion of Africa from the East,” British colonial standardization policies and …
Making Africa Legible
Sharīʿa in Africa Today
Useful” Knowledge and Moral Education in Zanzibar Between Colonial and Islamic Reform, 1916–1945
The introduction of colonial schooling in Zanzibar was aimed at improving economic productivity, drawing on an exchange of educational theory with the American South to ensure a labor supply for the post-emancipation plantation economy. Yet colonial officials faced a key problem: students did not attend, preferring instead to continue studying in Qur’anic schools, institutions roundly derided by colonial officials. To secure attendance, colonial …
Sharīʿa in Africa Today
Making Africa Legible
European colonialism and missionization in Africa initiated a massive orthographic shift across the continent, as local languages that had been written for centuries in Arabic letters were forcibly re-written in Roman orthography through language standardization reforms and the introduction of colonial public schools. Using early missionary grammars promoting the “conversion of Africa from the East,” British colonial standardization policies and …
Making Africa Legible
Islamic Scholarship in Africa
Community Agency and Islamic Education in Contemporary Zanzibar
Western liberal political philosophy, which undergirds the conception of the modern nation-state as theorized by European philosophers of liberalism from centuries past, is primarily concerned with the dynamics of rights and responsibilities between the individual and state institutions. In defining these dynamics, some philosophers held an assumption of human nature as inherently inclined toward selfish ends
Useful” Knowledge and Moral Education in Zanzibar Between Colonial and Islamic Reform, 1916–1945
The introduction of colonial schooling in Zanzibar was aimed at improving economic productivity, drawing on an exchange of educational theory with the American South to ensure a labor supply for the post-emancipation plantation economy. Yet colonial officials faced a key problem: students did not attend, preferring instead to continue studying in Qur’anic schools, institutions roundly derided by colonial officials. To secure attendance, colonial …
African history and culture analysis (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Colonialism (3 works) · History (3 works)