The road to the two Sudans / edited by Souad T. Ali [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ali, Souad T., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Politics and government.

History.

Sudan--History--1956---Congresses.

Sudan.

Sudan--Politics and government--1956-1985--Congresses.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

x, 307 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.

Summary:

Parallel with the previous volume of conference papers in 2008, Sudan's Wars and Peace Agreements, most of these selected and thematic articles were originally presented as papers at the 31st meeting of the Sudan Studies Association (SSA) at Arizona State University in 2012. Since that time, the Comprehensive Peace Agreement of 2005 provided for the self-determination referendum of 2011 that resulted in the independence of the new Republic of South Sudan. The previous book presaged this present volume as the, perhaps inevitable, outcome of endless conflicts with no serious effort to "make unity attractive." As this book goes to press, the new Republic of South Sudan is itself wracked with violent conflict. The hopes to build a new, democratic and civil society in the south from the many inherited problems have now devolved to dysfunction itself. Reading this book will realistically help in understanding these "Roads" taken. The editors and authors have created a multi-faceted account which reveals the complex foundations of these conflicts between north and south, and recently within the south itself. While Khartoum struggles onward with the Islamist project, regional conflicts and grave economic problems, Juba stumbles with corruption, armed rebellion and a grave humanitarian crisis. The half-full glass of dreams of social and economic development supported by oil revenue has been replaced by a glass half empty with new varieties of political dysfunction in which both nations have grave problems in security and economic stability in a generally troubled regional "neighborhood." Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Perceptions

Chapter 1 The Perception of the Outside and the Outsider in Dongolawi and Kenzi Proverbs / Marcus Jaeger Jaeger, Marcus 2

Chapter 2 Settlement and Displacement in the Sudan / Hana Al-Motasim Al-Motasim, Hana 20

Chapter 3 Two Hundred Years of Development: High Modernism, Water and People in South Sudan / Kevin Boueri Boueri, Kevin 61

Chapter 4 Life is Prickly: Belonging and the Common Place in Bor, Southern Sudan / Brendan Tuttle Tuttle, Brendan 90

Part II Legacies

Chapter 5 The Role of Slavery in the Rise and Fall of the Shilluk Kingdom / Stephanie Beswick Beswick, Stephanie 108

Chapter 6 The Old Men who Know the Boundaries: Local Agency in Old Sudanese Politics / Jay Spaulding Spaulding, Jay 143

Chapter 7 Spinners, Weavers, Merchants and Wearers: The Twentieth Century Decline of the Sudanese Textile Industry / Steven Serels Serels, Steven 160

Chapter 8 Sudan and the British Empire in the Era of Colonial Dismantlement (1946-1956): History Teaching in Comparative Perspective / Iris Seri-Hersch Seri-Hersch, Iris 177

Part III Strategies

Chapter 9 Agricultural Development Strategies for South Sudan / Sam L. Laki Laki, Sam L. 222

Chapter 10 The Role of Oil in the Sudanese Civil War / Sam L. Laki Laki, Sam L. 234

Chapter 11 Prospects for Political and Economic Stability in the Republic of South Sudan: Redefining the Role of Sudanese in the Diaspora / Eliza Mary Johannes Johannes, Eliza Mary, Mumo Nzau Nzau, Mumo 251.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Most of the papers were prensented at the gathering of the Sudan Studies Association at Arizona State University in 2012.

ISBN:

1443856320

9781443856324

OCLC:

881131882

Publisher Number:

99959730404