Africa in world history, 1400 to 1800

Kea, Ray A.

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“…A key concept was "crossroad(s)," an idea with multiple and antithetical meanings: opportunity, achievement, affluence, health, prestige, and power, on the one hand, and defeat, loss, failure, poverty, dependence, sickness, tragedy, and disgrace on the other. 31 This phenomenological view of social existence mediated the junctures of life's conditions as these were experienced by elite households. Protten's agency as a university student and a convert to Moravian Pietism enabled him to acquire cultural, social, and symbolic capital, and thus a cosmopolitan lifestyle in an Atlantic-based world-system.…”

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“…24 This achievement was due to the elites' social and patronage networks, which engaged in information and resource sharing through marriages, alliances, contracts, and so on. 25 Protten's patrimony allowed him a culture of privilege and (relative) leisure.…”

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“…27 Local cultural and ideological mediation of Accra-Osu's entangled spaces was expressed at a societal level in established institutions, ceremonies, and rituals and on a personal level in some of Protten's writings. 28 His texts include an extensive correspondence, an autobiographical essay (published in German in a 1741 Moravian newsletter), a diary (Diarium), a travel journal (Reise-Diarium), poetry, a grammar of the Fanti and Ga languages (published in Copenhagen in 1764), and a Lutheran catechism. He wrote in Danish, Dutch, Dutch Creole, and German as well as two Gold Coast languages-Ga (Accra) and Fanti (Amina).…”

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Crossroads and Exchanges in the Scandinavian Atlantic and Atlantic West Africa: Framing Texts of Eighteenth-Century African Christians

Kea¹

2019

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The interconnectedness of Atlantic West Africa and the Scandinavian Atlantic in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries exemplifies an entangled or shared history (histoire croisée). The present article maintains that in the context of the brutal transatlantic chattel trade this history manifests different historical trajectories as well as the temporality of episodic events and structural duration that are configured in the divergent itineraries of two eighteenth-century African Christians. Their texts and life histories reveal them as purveyors of intertwined Christian and non-Christian cultural codes and discursive fields, in one case according to a plantation-colony itinerary and in the other according to a world-port itinerary. The complex social realities of multiple texts and material cultures did not operate independently of socioeconomic structures intertwined with Atlantic world circuits.

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Section: Two African Christiansmentioning

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Crossroads and Exchanges in the Scandinavian Atlantic and Atlantic West Africa: Framing Texts of Eighteenth-Century African Christians

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2019

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“…Previous surveys have been conducted by interest groups and academics seeking to understand various aspects of the New Zealand diaspora including demographic information (e.g. Kea, 2015) , future aspirations (Kea, 2021;Walker, 2021), Māori identity (e.g. Thornley, 2015;N.…”

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“…Job opportunities and family circumstances were cited as the primary reason for living overseas and many are likely to spend longer overseas, however they retain close links with New Zealand and feel connected through social media, friends and family. (Kea, 2011(Kea, , 2015(Kea, , 2021 Collectively evaluating non-resident New Zealanders against Grossman's ( 2019 Huinga Waka and Tupuranga in Sydney (Walrond, n.d.). Plans have also been made to build a marae 11 in Sydney (Cumberland City Council, 2021).…”

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Responsiveness In Crisis: Measuring New Zealand’s State-Diaspora Relationship During The Covid-19 Pandemic

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This thesis explores the political experiences of the New Zealand diaspora during the Covid-19 pandemic. Two questions are addressed. The first, is how does New Zealand’s current state-diaspora relationship fit within the wider global context of emergent state-diaspora strategies? The second is how the actions of the New Zealand government, informed by its existing diaspora practices, were received by non-resident New Zealanders during this crisis period? Wider theory on the malleable definition of the concept of diaspora is explored, with emphasis on political state-led diaspora strategies and an exploration ofgovernment claims to represent their diasporas. New Zealand’s history of diaspora representation is examined with the conclusion that a previous selectively strategic direction has reverted to one of disinterest. The thesis then presents the findings from an original survey of 1100 non-resident New Zealanders which measured their experiences ofrepresentation during the Covid-19 pandemic. The survey findings show that respondents found the relationship with the New Zealand government overwhelmingly non-responsive to their circumstances, particularly with regard to policy and symbolic components, which contributed to a wider collective disconnection between the diaspora and their home country. This thesis is informed by the conviction that the study of state-diaspora relationships must include the experiences of migrant communities alongside the actions of governments in order to measure the impact and efficacy of representative claims.

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Africa in world history, 1400 to 1800

Cited by 2 publications

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Crossroads and Exchanges in the Scandinavian Atlantic and Atlantic West Africa: Framing Texts of Eighteenth-Century African Christians

Crossroads and Exchanges in the Scandinavian Atlantic and Atlantic West Africa: Framing Texts of Eighteenth-Century African Christians

Responsiveness In Crisis: Measuring New Zealand’s State-Diaspora Relationship During The Covid-19 Pandemic

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