Multidimensional Change in Sudan (1989–2011)

Reshaping Livelihoods, Conflicts and Identities

Barbara Casciarri, Munzoul A. M. Assal, François Ireton

• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9781789208399, 9781782386179
• eBook ISBN: 9781782386186
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Cultural & Social Anthropology
• Index: Social Sciences

Based on fieldwork largely collected during the CPA interim period by Sudanese and European researchers, this volume sheds light on the dynamics of change and the relationship between microscale and macroscale processes which took place in Sudan between the 1980s and the independence of South Sudan in 2011. Contributors' various disciplinary approaches—socio-anthropological, geographical, political, historical, linguistic—focus on the general issue of "access to resources." The book analyzes major transformations which affected Sudan in the framework of globalization, including land and urban issues; water management; "new" actors and "new conflicts"; and language, identity, and ideology.

Table of contents

• Multidimensional Change in Sudan (1989-2011)
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Acknowledgements
• Notes on the Transliteration of Arabic Terms
• Abbreviations
• Introduction — Multidimensional Change in Sudan (1989-2011): Insights from Fieldwork
• Part I — Land Issues and Livelihoods in the Capital Region and Rural Areas
• Chapter 1 — Old-Timers and Newcomers in Al-Salha: Dynamics of Land Allocation in an Urban Periphery
• Chapter 2 — Urban Agriculture Facing Land Pressure in Greater Khartoum: The Case of New Real Estate Projects on Tuti and Au Se'id
• Chapter 3 — Access Strategies to Economic and Social Resources among Recent Migrants on the Outskirts of Khartoum: The Example of Bawga Al-Sharig
• Chapter 4 — Contested Land Rights and Ethnic Conflict in Mornei (West Darfur): Scarcity of Resources or Crises of Governance?
• Part II — Water Resources at the Core of Local and Global Interactions
• Chapter 5 — Sudan's Hydropolitics: Regional Chess Games, National Hegemony and Local Resistance
• Chapter 6 — Local Management of Urbanized Water: Exchanges among Neighbours, Household Actions and Identity in Deim (Khartoum)
• Chapter 7 — Domestic Water Supply and Management in North Kordofan Villages: Al-Lowaib as an Example
• Chapter 8 — Water Management among Sudanese Pastoralists: End of the Commons or 'Silent Resistance' to Commoditization?
• Part III — New Actors, New Spaces and New Imagination on Conflicts
• Chapter 9 — Asian Players in Sudan: Social and Economic Impacts of 'New-Old' Actors
• Chapter 10 — Oil Exploration and Conflict in Sudan: The Predicament for Pastoralists in North-South Borderline States
• Chapter 11 — What Place in Khartoum for the Displaced? Between State Regulation and Individual Strategies
• Chapter 12 — Activist Mobilization and Internationalization of the Darfur Crisis
• Part IV — Reshaping Languages, Identities and Ideologies
• Chapter 13 — The Islamic Movement and Power in Sudan: From Revolution to Absorption into the State
• Chapter 14 — Language Policy and Planning in Sudan: From Local Vernaculars to National Languages
• Chapter 15 — 'One Tribe, One Language': Ethnolinguistic Identity and Language Revitalization among the Laggori in the Nuba Mountains
• Chapter 16 — Between Ideological Security and Intellectual Plurality: 'Colonialism' and 'Globalization' in Northern Sudanese Educational Discourses
• Epilogue — A New Sudan?
• Bibliography
• Contributors
• Index