Grey zones of the imagination
Grey zones of the imagination Go to Source
Practicing restraint
Practicing restraint Go to Source
People, plants, plantations: Responses and reflections
People, plants, plantations: Responses and reflections Go to Source
Of sago, songs, and stories
Of sago, songs, and stories Go to Source
An anathema for memory loss
An anathema for memory loss Go to Source
Invention and grace: Taking turns in a streetcorner bureaucracy
Invention and grace: Taking turns in a streetcorner bureaucracy This article analyzes the styles of work and conflict of a group of electrical contractors who congregate across the street from…
Avatar, personified: Split personhood on an ethical online support group
Avatar, personified: Split personhood on an ethical online support group Studies of digital life have theorized the heuristic value of theoretical and emic boundaries and/or the interconnectedness of online and…
Learning about “human”
Learning about “human” Go to Source
Plantation capitalism as categorical violence
Plantation capitalism as categorical violence Go to Source
If oil palm is an agent in West Papua, it is a White agent
If oil palm is an agent in West Papua, it is a White agent Go to Source
The Egyptian communities in Milan: Ideas of home, home-making, and care at the time of COVID-19
The Egyptian communities in Milan: Ideas of home, home-making, and care at the time of COVID-19 The Egyptian communities in Milan are among the oldest and largest migrant communities in…
Can the umma replace the nation? Salafism, home-making and the territorial nation-state
Can the umma replace the nation? Salafism, home-making and the territorial nation-state Engaging with contemporary literature on migration and home-making, in this article I examine Salafi concepts of home and…
Islam L.A. style: Talking back to America through Islamic discourses
Islam style: Talking back to America through Islamic discourses In this article, I explore distinct ways in which Iranian American mosque-goers in Southern California understand and define Islam. I argue…
“Today, we teach the kids where we are from”: Event filmmaking and diasporic home-making among Indian Muslims in North America
“Today, we teach the kids where we are from”: Event filmmaking and diasporic home-making among Indian Muslims in North America How do people make themselves at home in situations of…
Facets of charity: Muslim ethics, postcolonial dynamics, and community-making in Portugal
Facets of charity: Muslim ethics, postcolonial dynamics, and community-making in Portugal This article examines the networks of charity developed by Muslims to discuss community-making in Portugal. Giving allows donors to…
Afterword
Afterword In this afterword, I consider the important contributions this special section makes to the study of the relations between immanence, transcendence, and mediation in the study of Islam and…
Dreaming the path: Ontological shifts in a Sufi order in Afghanistan
Dreaming the path: Ontological shifts in a Sufi order in Afghanistan This article examines dream practices among a Sufi community in present-day Afghanistan. The main argument revolves around the question…
“What does the heart want?”: Being seen, “heart ethnography,” and knowledge through surrender in a Bashkir Sufi circle in Russia
“What does the heart want?”: Being seen, “heart ethnography,” and knowledge through surrender in a Bashkir Sufi circle in Russia Drawing on fieldwork in a Bashkir Sufi circle in Russia,…
Home in exile: Palestinianness as moral subjunctive destination
Home in exile: Palestinianness as moral subjunctive destination This article explores the polyvocal and inherently contested arena of Palestinianness as a moral place of belonging, for which I suggest the…
Introduction: Movement, faith, and home in Muslim communities in the diaspora
Introduction: Movement, faith, and home in Muslim communities in the diaspora Here we introduce a special section that spans this and the next issue of Hau. The articles in the…