CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2024
| Author | Trivedy, Asha |
|---|---|
| Title | Spoken Crossings: Listening to South Asian East African Oral & Digital History, 1950s-1970s |
| Summary | This thesis explores the mid-20th century lives of South Asians of different religious and cultural backgrounds who migrated to East Africa, through Oral History among other historical source material. It aims to challenge the ideas that have been put forward about these women in literature in the past, and to do so, it explores the extent to which local and transnational negotiations were essential parts of their lives as historical actors who experienced migration and navigated ideas, expectations and political formations that took place around them. Therefore, it argues that their actions can be seen as moments of defiance of physical and metaphorical borders. This project has two parts: firstly, there is a clear historiographical element, exploring a period in East African and Global History where historical actors were navigating colonial and post-independence landscapes - these are dealt with in the first two chapters. Secondly, but equally, it works with contemporary public history in its creation of an Oral History project that supports the transnational nature of the communities that contribute to it. For this reason, an online community Oral History space is developed into this project, the uses and benefits of which are detailed in the final chapter. Capstone project: https://piccolo -wolf-s9c6.squa respace.com/ |
| Supervisor | Cardim, Pedro |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2024/trivedy_asha.pdf |
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