Jeremy Prestholdt, assistant professor of history, has been awarded an H. F. Guggenheim Fellowship for his project entitled, "Heroing Osama: The Politics of Youth Marginality in Postcolonial Kenya." The work, to be undertaken during the 2007 calendar year, will address political and economic marginalization of the Kenyan coastal Muslim community since the 1960s, focusing particularly on youth alienation. Prestholdt plans to use “the popularity of Osama bin Laden as a window into changing global consciousness that have given shape to young Muslim’s visions for change.”

This book boldly unsettles the idea of globalization as a recent phenomenon--and one driven solely by Western interests--by offering a compelling new perspective on global interconnectivity in the nineteenth century. Jeremy Prestholdt examines East African consumers' changing desires for material goods from around the world in an era of sweeping social and economic change. Exploring complex webs of local consumer demands that affected patterns of exchange and production as far away as India and the United States, the book challenges presumptions that Africa's global relationships have always been dictated by outsiders. Full of rich and often-surprising vignettes that outline forgotten trajectories of global trade and consumption, it powerfully demonstrates how contemporary globalization is foreshadowed in deep histories of intersecting and reciprocal relationships across vast distances.

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