Description / Table of Contents: List of Maps and Figures -- Introduction: The Upper Guinea Coast in Global Perspective -- Jacqueline Knörr and Christoph Kohl -- PART I: CREOLE CONNECTIONS -- Chapter 1. Towards a Definition of Transnational as a Family Construct: An Historical and Micro Perspective -- Bruce L. Mouser -- Chapter 2. Lusocreole Culture and Identity Compared: The Cases of Guinea-Bissau and Sri Lanka -- Christoph Kohl -- Chapter 3. Freetown's Yoruba-modelled Secret Societies as Transnational and Trans-ethnic Mechanisms for Social Integration -- Nathaniel King -- PART II: DIASPORIC ENTANGLEMENTS -- Chapter 4. Contested Transnational Spaces: Debating Emigrants' Citizenship and Role in Guinean Politics -- Anita Schroven -- Chapter 5. Identity beyond ID – Diaspora within the Nation -- Markus Rudolf -- Chapter 6. The African 'Other' in the Cape Verde Islands: Interaction, Integration and the Forging of an Immigration Policy -- Pedro F. José-Marcelino -- Chapter 7. Celebrating Asymmetries – Creole Stratification and the Regrounding of Home in Cape Verdean Migrant Return Visits -- Heike Drotbohm -- PART III: TRAVELLING MODELS -- Chapter 8. Travelling Terms: Analysis of Semantic Fluctuations in the Atlantic World -- Wilson Trajano Filho -- Chapter 9. Rice and Revolution: Agrarian Life and Global Food Policy on the Upper Guinea Coast -- Joanna Davidson -- Chapter 10. Transnational and Local Models of Non-Refoulement: Youth and Women in the Moral Economy of Patronage in Post-War Liberia and Sierra Leone -- William P. Murphy -- Chapter 11. Expanding the Space for Freedom of Expression in Post-war Sierra Leone -- Sylvanus Spencer -- Chapter 12. Sierra Leone, Child Soldiers, and Global Flows of Child Protection Expertise -- Susan Shepler -- PART IV: INTERREGIONAL INTEGRATION -- Chapter 13. The 'Mandingo Question': Transnational Ethnic Identity and Violent Conflict in an Upper Guinea Border Area -- Christian K. Højbjerg† -- Chapter 14. Solo Darboe, Former Diamond Dealer: Transnational Connections and Home Politics in the Twentieth-Century Gambia -- Alice Bellagamba -- Chapter 15. Market Networks and Warfare: A Comparison of the Seventeenth Century Blade Weapons Trade and the Nineteenth Century Firearms Trade in the Casamance -- Peter Mark and José da Silva Horta -- Notes on Contributors -- Index --

Description / Table of Contents: List of Maps and Figures -- Acknowledgements -- -- Introduction -- -- -- Creole Identity and Postcolonial Diversity -- -- -- Ethnic versus Transethnic Identity -- -- -- National Identity in the Context of Ethnic and Transethnic References -- -- -- The City as Locus and Focus -- -- -- Categories of Identification and Social Discourses as Objects of Observation and Analysis -- -- -- Notes on Field Research -- -- Chapter 1. Creole Identity in Postcolonial Context -- -- -- Creole Terminology at the Conceptual Crossroads of History and Ideology -- -- -- Creolization and Creole Identity Beyond the Caribbean -- -- -- Towards a Comparative Concept of Creole Identity -- -- -- Indigenization and Ethnogenesis as Criteria of Creolization -- -- -- Creoleness versus (Post-)creole Continuum -- -- -- The CvP Model: Creolization versus Pidginization -- -- -- The Pidgin Potential of Creole Identity for Postcolonial Nation-building -- -- -- Creole Ambivalences -- -- Chapter 2. Jakarta, Batavia, Betawi -- -- -- Cityscape and City Dwellers -- -- -- Historical Beginnings: Sunda Kelapa, Jayakarta, Batavia -- -- -- Social Organization and Interethnic Relationships in Batavia -- -- -- Creolization and the Emergence of the Betawi -- -- -- Social Marginalization of the Betawi -- -- -- The (Re-)discovery of the Betawi: Objectives and Context of State Sponsorship -- -- Chapter 3. Orang Betawi versus Orang Jakarta -- -- -- Discourses, Definitions, Dichotomies -- -- -- Betawi (asli) versus pendatang -- -- -- Betawi versus Betawi Asli: Ethnic References with and without 'Asli' -- -- -- Betawi as Jakarta Asli -- -- -- The Pidgin Potential of Betawi Culture and Identity -- -- -- Orang Jakarta as a Category of Urban Identification -- -- -- Creolization of Jakartan Identity? -- -- -- Tradition and Modernity in the Relationship between Orang Betawi and Orang Jakarta ... and a Miss and Mister Jakarta Pageant -- -- Chapter 4. Suku bangsa Betawi: Integration and Differentiation of Ethnic Identity -- -- -- The Inner and Outer circle of the Betawi -- -- -- Betawi Kota: the (Political) Spearhead of the Betawi -- -- -- Betawi Pinggir: the Guardians of 'True Islam' -- -- -- Betawi Udik: the Guardians of 'True Tradition' -- -- -- Betawi Kota, Pinggir and Udik: Integration through Differentiation and Diversification from Within -- -- -- The Arabic Dimension of Betawi-ness -- -- -- Tugu: Exotics of Enclave? -- -- -- Kampung Sawah: The (Christian) Betawi in the Paddy Field -- -- -- Bangsawan Betawi: About the Invention of a Betawi Aristocracy -- -- -- Batak Going Betawi, Or: What Is a Batak Betawi? -- -- Chapter 5. Betawi versus Peranakan (Chinese) -- -- -- Conceptual Disentanglement -- -- -- Cina Benteng: the First Peranakan -- -- -- Between Privilege and Expulsion: The Chinese in Batavia and Early Postcolonial Jakarta -- -- -- The Repression of the Chinese during the Suharto Era -- -- -- Recent Developments: 'Free the Dragon' versus 'Be(com)ing Betawi' -- -- -- The Betawi's Appetite for Incorporation -- -- Chapter 6. Orang Betawi versus Orang Indonesia: On the Connection between Ethnic Diversity and National Unity -- -- -- Pancasila and Bhinneka Tunggal Ika as Core Principles of National Identity -- -- -- The Betawi as a Representation of Bhinneka Tunggal Ika: On the Meaning of 'Diversity of Origin' for 'Unity in Diversity' -- -- -- National Meanings of Betawi Indigeneity -- -- -- Betawi-ization versus Javanization of the National Centre -- -- -- Betawi contraorang kompeni: Postcolonial Constructions of Anticolonial Heroism -- -- -- Orang Betawi and Orang Indonesia as Interconnected Categories of Identification -- -- Chapter 7. Betawi Politics of Identity and Difference -- -- -- Betawi Goes Politics: The First 'Betawi untuk Gubernur' Campaign -- -- -- Indigeneity in the Production of Authenticity and Commitment -- -- -- Creole Identity in the Production of Commonalities -- -- -- Islam In and Out of Politics -- -- -- Jakarta between National and Local Representation -- -- -- Social Margins Going Ethno-politics -- -- -- Betawi as a Social Class and as Urban Identification -- -- Conclusion: Towards an Open End -- -- Bibliography --