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Format: xiii, 270 Seiten , 23 cm

ISBN: 9780822363446 , 9780822363330

Series Statement: Next wave: new directions in women's studies

Content: Temporariness -- Suspension -- Naram -- Housetalk -- Fitra

Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 245-264 , Includes bibliographical references and index

Additional Edition: ISBN 9780822373223

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Ahmad, Attiya, 1976- author Everyday conversions Durham : Duke University Press, 2017

Language: English

Subjects: Ethnology , Theology

Keywords: Kuwait ; Asiatische Einwanderin ; Hausgehilfin ; Konversion ; Islam

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Format: 1 online resource (288 p.)

ISBN: 9780822373223

Series Statement: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies

Content: Why are domestic workers converting to Islam in the Arabian Peninsula and Persian Gulf region? In Everyday Conversions Attiya Ahmad presents us with an original analysis of this phenomenon. Using extensive fieldwork conducted among South Asian migrant women in Kuwait, Ahmad argues domestic workers’ Muslim belonging emerges from their work in Kuwaiti households as they develop Islamic piety in relation—but not opposition—to their existing religious practices, family ties, and ethnic and national belonging. Their conversion is less a clean break from their preexisting lives than it is a refashioning in response to their everyday experiences. In examining the connections between migration, labor, gender, and Islam, Ahmad complicates conventional understandings of the dynamics of religious conversion and the feminization of transnational labor migration while proposing the concept of everyday conversion as a way to think more broadly about emergent forms of subjectivity, affinity, and belonging.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction. EVERYDAY CONVERSIONS -- , One. TEMPORARINESS -- , Two. SUSPENSION -- , Three. NARAM -- , Four. HOUSETALK -- , Five. FITRA -- , Epilogue. ONGOING CONVERSIONS -- , Appendix 1. Notes on Fieldwork -- , Appendix 2. Interlocutors’ Names and Connections to One Another -- , Glossary -- , Notes -- , Bibliography -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780822373223

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822373223

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822373223

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 270 Seiten).

ISBN: 978-0-8223-7322-3

Series Statement: Next wave: new Directions in women's studies

Content: Why are domestic workers converting to Islam in the Arabian Peninsula and Persian Gulf region? In Everyday Conversions Attiya Ahmad presents us with an original analysis of this phenomenon. Using extensive fieldwork conducted among South Asian migrant women in Kuwait, Ahmad argues domestic workers' Muslim belonging emerges from their work in Kuwaiti households as they develop Islamic piety in relation-but not opposition-to their existing religious practices, family ties, and ethnic and national belonging. Their conversion is less a clean break from their preexisting lives than it is a refashioning in response to their everyday experiences. In examining the connections between migration, labor, gender, and Islam, Ahmad complicates conventional understandings of the dynamics of religious conversion and the feminization of transnational labor migration while proposing the concept of everyday conversion as a way to think more broadly about emergent forms of subjectivity, affinity, and belonging

Note: Bevorzugte Informationsquelle: Landingpage (Duke University Press), da weder Titelblatt noch Impressum vorhanden

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-0-8223-6333-0

Language: English

Subjects: English Studies

Keywords: Diaspora ; Theater ; Schwarze ; Frau

DOI: 10.1515/9780822373223

URL: Volltext  (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822373223

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822373223

UID:

Format: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 270 Seiten).

ISBN: 978-0-8223-7322-3

Series Statement: Next wave: new Directions in women's studies

Content: Why are domestic workers converting to Islam in the Arabian Peninsula and Persian Gulf region? In Everyday Conversions Attiya Ahmad presents us with an original analysis of this phenomenon. Using extensive fieldwork conducted among South Asian migrant women in Kuwait, Ahmad argues domestic workers' Muslim belonging emerges from their work in Kuwaiti households as they develop Islamic piety in relation-but not opposition-to their existing religious practices, family ties, and ethnic and national belonging. Their conversion is less a clean break from their preexisting lives than it is a refashioning in response to their everyday experiences. In examining the connections between migration, labor, gender, and Islam, Ahmad complicates conventional understandings of the dynamics of religious conversion and the feminization of transnational labor migration while proposing the concept of everyday conversion as a way to think more broadly about emergent forms of subjectivity, affinity, and belonging

Note: Bevorzugte Informationsquelle: Landingpage (Duke University Press), da weder Titelblatt noch Impressum vorhanden

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-0-8223-6333-0

Language: English

Subjects: English Studies

Keywords: Diaspora ; Theater ; Schwarze ; Frau

DOI: 10.1515/9780822373223

URL: Volltext  (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)

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Format: 1 online resource (289 pages) : , illustrations.

ISBN: 0-8223-7322-X

Series Statement: Next wave

Content: Why are domestic workers converting to Islam in the Arabian Peninsula and Persian Gulf region? In Everyday Conversions Attiya Ahmad presents us with an original analysis of this phenomenon. Using extensive fieldwork conducted among South Asian migrant women in Kuwait, Ahmad argues domestic workers’ Muslim belonging emerges from their work in Kuwaiti households as they develop Islamic piety in relation—but not opposition—to their existing religious practices, family ties, and ethnic and national belonging. Their conversion is less a clean break from their preexisting lives than it is a refashioning in response to their everyday experiences. In examining the connections between migration, labor, gender, and Islam, Ahmad complicates conventional understandings of the dynamics of religious conversion and the feminization of transnational labor migration while proposing the concept of everyday conversion as a way to think more broadly about emergent forms of subjectivity, affinity, and belonging.

Note: Temporariness -- Suspension -- Naram -- Housetalk -- Fitra. , Issued also in print.

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8223-6344-5

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8223-6333-X

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780822373223

UID:

Format: 1 online resource (289 pages) : , illustrations.

ISBN: 0-8223-7322-X

Series Statement: Next wave

Content: Why are domestic workers converting to Islam in the Arabian Peninsula and Persian Gulf region? In Everyday Conversions Attiya Ahmad presents us with an original analysis of this phenomenon. Using extensive fieldwork conducted among South Asian migrant women in Kuwait, Ahmad argues domestic workers’ Muslim belonging emerges from their work in Kuwaiti households as they develop Islamic piety in relation—but not opposition—to their existing religious practices, family ties, and ethnic and national belonging. Their conversion is less a clean break from their preexisting lives than it is a refashioning in response to their everyday experiences. In examining the connections between migration, labor, gender, and Islam, Ahmad complicates conventional understandings of the dynamics of religious conversion and the feminization of transnational labor migration while proposing the concept of everyday conversion as a way to think more broadly about emergent forms of subjectivity, affinity, and belonging.

Note: Temporariness -- Suspension -- Naram -- Housetalk -- Fitra. , Issued also in print.

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8223-6344-5

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8223-6333-X

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780822373223