The Somali people have suffered from a devastating civil war and large-scale forced displacement since the late 1980s. This article is based on ethnographic fieldwork with Northwest London Somalis during the khat (Catha edulis) control debates that led to the prohibition of the substance in June 2014. It argues that diaspora poetics can become an expression of a deeply divisive past offering ways to rearticulate ruptured interpersonal and community relationships in terms of their restorative potential. When Somali diaspora people in the United Kingdom used poetry to engage in the khat prohibition debates, the anti-khat poems entangled this mild stimulant with the Somali history of state collapse and displacement. This revealed that, for Somalis, the stakes of the prohibition vastly exceeded concerns about potential social and health harms of khat in the United Kingdom. The poetics of khat situate acts of remembering within a distinctive conception of ideas about Somali nationhood, the need for conciliation, and visions of a common future. Yet remembering proved to be less about nostalgic longing for the past and more about enacting new moral and political relations enabled by the momentum of the khat prohibition.

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“如果没有 jaad”：阿拉伯茶的诗学和伦敦索马里社区的未来记忆

自 20 世纪 80 年代后期以来，索马里人民遭受了毁灭性的内战和大规模的被迫流离失所。这篇文章基于在阿拉伯茶 ( Catha edulis ) 期间对伦敦西北部索马里人进行的民族志实地调查) 控制导致 2014 年 6 月禁止物质的辩论。它认为散居诗学可以成为深刻分裂的过去的表达，提供重新阐明破裂的人际关系和社区关系的恢复潜力的方法。当散居在英国的索马里人用诗歌参与卡塔叶禁令辩论时，反卡塔叶诗歌将这种温和的兴奋剂与索马里国家崩溃和流离失所的历史纠缠在一起。这表明，对于索马里人来说，禁令的利害关系远远超过了英国对阿拉伯茶潜在社会和健康危害的担忧。阿拉伯茶的诗学将记忆的行为置于关于索马里民族的独特概念、和解的需要和共同未来的愿景中。