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v Contents List of pictures................................................................................................................ vii Acknowledgements ....................................................................................................... viii 1 Introduction ...............................................................................................................1 Mobile phones and network society ..................................................................................4 Situating the study: Initial research question......................................................................7 New media – new communities........................................................................................9 Working with youth cultures: Community, identity and autonomy....................................13 Re-directing my research ...............................................................................................15 Interdisciplinarity: Organizing my ideas..........................................................................19 2 Memories of Mekwar: Historical identities and student diversity.............23 Pre-colonial history.....................................................................................................24 Center vs. periphery....................................................................................................25 Ethno-linguistic peripheries and national identity......................................................28 Processes of migration: The making of the urban capital...........................................29 The National Islamic Front (NIF) and the new Islamic state .....................................32 What does it mean to be Sudanese?..................................................................................34 3 Discourse and identity: Texting in the Sudanese communicative ecology..........................................36 ‘Keeping in touch’: Sudanese communicative style...................................................38 Texting as a semi-oral medium...................................................................................41 Discursive identities....................................................................................................45 Classical Arabic and Sudanese colloquial Arabic in texting ......................................46 Space for alternative identities....................................................................................51 4 Nuba and urban identity: The discourse of resistance and the practice of integration.........................53 Joseph’s story..............................................................................................................53 The “Nuba problem”: Discourses of othering ............................................................56 On becoming “Arab” ..................................................................................................59 Research question revisited ........................................................................................60 Lessons in methodology: The Karko students............................................................61 The Krongo picnic ......................................................................................................64 Paths of acculturation: contradiction of ideology and practice...................................65 Flexible identities: Krongawi – Nubaawi – Sudaani..................................................68 vi 5 Text message poetry (shi‘ar iliktrooni): The broader effects of personal practices ........................................................73 Alessandro’s story.......................................................................................................73 The sending and receiving of poetic messages...........................................................76 Poetry in the Sudanese context...................................................................................81 The ‘social circulation’ of SMS poetry and the ‘mediation’ of ‘missing’..................90 Intertextual texting......................................................................................................92 Recontextualization and the public imagination.........................................................99 6 Love in the time of mobility: Careful appropriations and courtship negotiations......................................106 Leila’s story ..............................................................................................................106 Public vs. private in Sudan .......................................................................................111 Women’s space in the Hamad family’s home ..........................................................112 Islamic fundamentalist Discourse on women ...........................................................116 Courtship and social space: maneuvering on the margins........................................119 The mobile phone and the semi-private social space for love..................................121 Romantic curiosities and moral crises ......................................................................127 The space in-between: Being a “good Muslim” and a desiring individual ....................130 Leila sets an example................................................................................................133 7 Being “modern”: From Shakespeare to chat room literacy.......................136 Fellah’s story.............................................................................................................136 The mobile phone is a technology and a symbol of modernity................................138 English is a technology and a symbol of modernity.................................................143 The Gulf is modern place..........................................................................................145 Coming from the Gulf...............................................................................................147 Globalization of English and computer-mediated communication (CMC)..............149 How global and local mingle in Sudanese – English texting ...................................152 Belonging in a globalized world...............................................................................164 8 Conclusion ………………..……………….……………………………………………………………..167 Appendix 1: Transcription conventions ........................................................................176 Appendix 2: List of terms..............................................................................................178 References .....................................................................................................................179 ...