Sudanese Intellectuals in the Global Milieu

Capturing Cultural Capital

Gada Kadoda, Sondra Hale

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2022
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781978772335
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Social History
• Index: Social Sciences

Sudanese Intellectuals in the Global Milieu: Capturing Cultural Capital propels Sudanese intellectuals into the global intellectual milieu and argues for their place in world intellectual history. The contributors posit that Sudan is currently in its most uncertain and perhaps most generative period, as the unrest, conflicts, and upheavals of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries threw Sudanese intellectuals and activists into identity, economic, environmental, religious, and existential crises. Despite these crises, the unrest has created a period of knowledge production and cultural production in Sudan. The contributors to the collection are Sudanese intellectuals who explore the history and evolution of knowledge production, thought, and cultural capital in Sudan.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Part I: Introductory
• Chapter 1: More than a Grain of Sand: Opening Outward—Sudanese Thought in a Globalized Milieu
• Chapter 2: Capturing Cultural Capital: Where to Start, and Which Ideas Matter?
• Part II: Ghosts and Beacons
• Chapter 3: Visitations: Dialogue with the Ghost of Dr. John Garang
• Chapter 4: The Beacon: A Glimpse of Suad Ibrahim Ahmed’s Intellectual Life
• Part III: Hybridities and Ambiguities
• Chapter 5: The Invention of the Northern Sudanese
• Chapter 6: The Rise and Decline of the Hybridity Thesis in the Intellectual: Discourse on Identity—The Sudan Example
• Part IV: The Production of Intellectuals
• Chapter 7: Interrogating the Dilemma of Sudanese Academics: Producing Knowledge or Recycling Ideologies
• Chapter 8: The Pioneering Women’s and Gender Studies Intellectuals in the Sudan: Ahfad University for Women
• Part V: Marginalized Intellectual Communities
• Chapter 9: “Peace-building” as Thought and Practice in the Nuba Mountains before 2011
• Chapter 10: Portrait of a Woman of Courage: Awadeya Koko, Organic Intellectual
• Chapter 11: Life as an Act of Resistance: On Politics and Ideas—Youth Movements in the Sudan
• Part VI: Mahdists, Feminists, and Humanists
• Chapter 12: Al-Sādiq Al-Mahdi’s Intellectualism: Searching the Iceberg
• Chapter 13: Transforming Lives: Fatima Babiker’s Feminist Trajectories
• Chapter 14: Francis Mading Deng: Ideas for Bridging Boundaries, Managing Diversity, and Reconciling Differences
• Index
• About the Contributors