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Out of Place offers an in-depth exploration of Nuraan Davids' experience as a Muslim 'coloured' woman, traversing a post-apartheid space. It centres on and explores a number of themes, which include her challenges not only as a South African citizen, and within her faith community, but as an academic citizen at a historically white university. The book is her story, an autoethnography, her reparation. By embarking on an auto-ethnography, she not only tries to change the way her story has been told by others, transforms her 'sense of what it means to live' (Bhabha, 1994). She is driven by a postcolonial appeal, which insists that if she seeks to imprint her own way of life into the discourses which pervade the world around her, then she can no longer allow herself to be spoken on behalf of or to be subjugated into the hegemonies of others. The main argument of Out of Place is that Muslim, 'coloured' women are subjected to layers of scrutiny and prejudices, which have yet to be confronted. What we know about Muslim 'coloured' women has been shaped by preconceived notions of 'otherness', and attached to a meta-narrative of 'oppression and backwardness'. By centring and using her lived experiences, the author takes readers on a journey of what it is like to be seen in terms of race, gender and religion - not only within the public sphere of her professional identities, but within the private sphere of her faith community. --

1. Introduction: Whither Postcolonialism? From Concepts via Methodologies to Scholarly Activisms -- I. Conceptual Vigilance -- 2. Postcolonial Utopianism: Unlocking the Future -- 3. Alternative Episteme: Thinkers from the Global South -- 4. Bibliodiversity: Denationalizing and Defrancophonizing Francophonie -- II. Triangulated Methodologies -- 5. Brotherhoods of the Sea: Comparative History, Minor Solidarity, and Transoceanic Empathy -- 6. Queer Forensic Traces and 3D Testimony: New Methodologies for 'Messy-Thinking and Writing' of Apartheid-Era Crimes in the Digital Humanities -- 7. "Energise!": Postcolonial Studies during the Autumn of the System -- III. Scholarly Activisms -- 8. Postcolonial Theory and Activist Interventions at Ethnology Museums -- 9. Scholarship in Solidarity? Researching Namibian-German Memory Politics in the Aftermath of Colonial Genocide -- 10. The Violence of History: Decolonizing Visual Culture In and Out of the Museum.

Introduction: Reppin', island style / by Keith L. Camacho -- Kōti Rangatahi : Whanaungatanga justice and the "magnificence of its connectedness" / Stella Black, Jacquie Kidd, and Katey Thom -- "Raise your pen" : a critical race essay on truth and justice / Kepa Ōkusitino Maumau, Moana Uluave-Hafoka, and Lea Lani Kinikini -- Pasifika lens : an analysis of Sāmoan student experiences in Australian high schools / Vaoiva Ponton -- Screen sovereignty : urban youth and community media in Vanuatu / Thomas Dick and Sarah Doyle -- "Holla mai! Tongan 4 life!" Transnational citizenship, youth style, and mediated interaction through online social networking communities / Mary K. Good -- Making waves : Marshallese youth culture, "minor songs," and major challenges / Jessica A. Schwartz -- Kanaka Waikīkī : the Stonewall Gang and beachboys of Oahu, 1916-1954 / Alika Bourgette -- "Still feeling it" : addressing the unresolved grief among the Sāmoan Bloods of Aotearoa New Zealand / Gisa Dr Moses Ma'alo Faleolo -- Faikava : a philosophy of diasporic Tongan youth, hip hop, and urban kava circles / Arcia Tecun, Edmond Fehoko, and Inoke Hafoka -- The "young kings of Kalihi" : boys and bikes in Hawaii's urban ahupuaa / Demiliza Saramosing.

"In this collection, scholars from diverse geographical locations revisit a cluster of five biblical texts: Ruth, Song of Songs, Qoheleth (Ecclesiastes), Lamentations and Esther. The volume presents various viewpoints and contexts--geographical, communal, religious, social, economical and ethical. Matching scholarship with social awareness, the contributors keep asking themselves and their readers a dual-faced question: how does our life context influence our scholarly and non-scholarly readings of the Bible, and how does reading the Bible critically influence our life? To answer this question and to show it at work the contributors employ a range of contextual lenses. Geography is a major factor of the contributors' contexts - with contributors from South Africa, Argentina, Israel, the Pacific Islands - but not the only one to influence their readings. Issues of society, culture and community are at the foreground for all contributors and their reading agendas with specific focus on the AIDs crisis in Africa, issues of migration and asylum, and feminist approaches to biblical texts."--Bloomsbury Publishing