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1 online resource |
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Palgrave series in African borderlands studies |
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Palgrave series in African borderlands studies.
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| Contents |
Introduction : negotiating borders, defining South Sudan / Mareike Schomerus, Lotje de Vries and Christopher Vaughan -- Too much water under the bridge : internationalization of the Sudan-South Sudan border and local demands for its regulation / Øystein H. Rolandsen -- Unclear lines : state and non-state actors in Abyei / Joshua Craze -- Pastoralists, conflicts and politics : aspects of South Sudan's Kenyan frontier / Immo Eulenberger -- The Nuba political predicament in Sudan(s) : seeking resources beyond borders / Guma Kunda Komey -- Alternative citizenship : the Nuer between Ethiopia and the Sudan / Dereje Feyissa -- The Rizeigat-Malual borderland during the condominium : the limits of legibility / Christopher Vaughan -- Pulling the ropes : convenient indeterminacies and the negotiation of power at Kaya's border checkpoint / Lotje de Vries -- State-making and emerging complexes of power and accumulation in the Southern Sudan-Kenyan border area : the rise of a thriving cross-border business network / Anne Walraet -- Labour and the making of Central African borders / Edward Thomas -- Whatever happened to the "safe havens"? Imposing state boundaries between the Sudanese plains and the Ethiopian highlands / Wendy James |
| Summary |
Current international discourse on the new state of South Sudan seems fixated on the "state construction." This book aims to broaden the debate by examining the character of regulatory authority in South Sudan's borderlands in both contemporary and historical perspective. The contributions gathered here show that emerging border governance practices challenge the bounded categorization of "state" and "non-state", especially in the complex interactions between state, military, and business actors and power structures. It thus provides a timely and sophisticated contribution to the literature on African borderlands, examining a new state in creation at its borders, and providing an anthropologically and historically informed view of a rapidly evolving situation |
| Notes |
Papers from a workshop held at Durham University in April 2011 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Borderlands -- South Sudan -- Congresses
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National liberation & independence, post-colonialism -- Sudan.
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Constitution: government & the state -- Sudan.
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Regional government -- Sudan.
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HISTORY -- Middle East -- Egypt.
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Borderlands
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Boundaries
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Politics and government
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National liberation & independence, post-colonialism -- Sudan.
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Constitution: government & the state -- Sudan.
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Regional -- local -- state government -- Sudan.
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History.
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South Sudan -- Boundaries -- Congresses
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South Sudan -- Politics and government -- 2011- -- Congresses
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South Sudan
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Vaughan, Christopher, 1981- editor.
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Schomerus, Mareike, editor
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Vries, Lotje de, 1979- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781137340894 |
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1137340894 |
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9781349464982 |
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1349464988 |
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9781137340887 |
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1137340886 |
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