Titel Deelnemers "Muslim networks, public services and development intervention in post-socialist Tanzania : between liberalization and alienation" "Felicitas Maria Becker" "Researching the aftermath of slavery in mainland East Africa : methodological, ethical, and practical challenges" "Felicitas Maria Becker, Salvatory Nyanto, James Giblin, Ann McDougall, Alexander Meckelburg, Lotte Pelckmans" "This article examines ethical, practical, and methodological challenges in researching the aftermath of slavery in continental East Africa away from the coastal plantation belt. Interest in post-slavery there is recent and inspired by the apparent contrast with West Africa, where the issue is much more salient. The article explains this silence by highlighting politically-motivated avoidance of the issue in colonial sources and the preference of post-colonial historians for 'useful' pasts. Further, it questions the balance of successful integration and continuing marginalization reflected in the apparent obsolescence of slavery. It argues that tracing the trajectories of ex-slaves requires attention to all forms of social inequality and dependency, to the potential status implications for informants of speaking about slavery, and to the variety of terms and fields of meaning relevant to freedom, unfreedom and dependency. Recent research in this vein shows that slave antecedents remain a matter of aibu, shame, and that ex-slaves' disappearance as a social category took lifelong efforts on their part. While the social valence of slave antecedents is relatively limited in mainland East Africa, slavery remains a problematic and painful heritage that demands great circumspection by researchers." "The politics of poverty : policy-making and development in rural Tanzania" "Felicitas Maria Becker" "How is it that rural poverty in southern Tanzania appears both easy to explain and yet also mystifying? Why is it that 'development' is such a touchstone, when actual attempts at fostering development have been largely ephemeral and/or unpopular for decades? In this book, Felicitas Becker traces dynamics of rural poverty based on the exportation of foodstuffs rather than the better-known problems connected to exportation of migrant labour, and examines what has kept the development industry going despite its failure to break these dynamics. Becker argues that development planners often exaggerated their prospects to secure funding, repackaged old strategies as new to maintain their promise, and shifted blame onto rural Africans for failing to meet the expectations they had raised. But the rural poor, too, pursued conversations on the causes and morality of poverty and wealth. Despite their dependence and deprivation, officials found repeatedly that they could not take them for granted." "How alien is the colonial past, and how can we judge its protagonists?" "Felicitas Maria Becker" "Legal pluralism and the pursuit of a just life : Muslim views on law and justice in East Africa" "Felicitas Maria Becker" "‘Patriarchal masculinity in recent Swahili-language Muslim sermons’" "Felicitas Maria Becker" "Radical rhetoric and real-life pragmatism in East African Islam" "Felicitas Maria Becker" "Islam and imperialism in East Africa" "Felicitas Maria Becker" "Common themes, individual voices : memories of slavery around a former slave plantation in Mingoyo, Tanzania" "Felicitas Maria Becker" "Freeborn villagers : Islam and the local uses of cosmopolitan connections among Tanzanian villagers" "Felicitas Maria Becker"