Lifeworlds in crisis : making refugees in the Chad-Sudan borderlands / Andrea Behrends.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Behrends, Andrea, author.

Contributor:

International African Institute, associated with work.

Series:

African arguments.

Oxford scholarship online.

African arguments

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Borderlands--Sudan.

Borderlands.

Borderlands--Chad.

Sudan--History--Darfur Conflict, 2003---Refugees.

Sudan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (330 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Hurst & Company, 2024.

Summary:

The continuing Darfur War has caused mass displacement since 2003, with hundreds of thousands driven from their homes and many forced into refugee camps in western Sudan and neighbouring Chad. Building on twenty years of research in the region, Andrea Behrends tracks the repercussions of this conflict - sometimes referred to as the 'first genocide of the twenty-first century' - for those living through it: those who stayed put, those who fled from rural areas to towns, those who moved to refugee camps, and those who fought. Telling the story of everyday survival on the Chad-Sudan border, an area central to state politics in the larger region, her account sheds light on how people create belonging, exchange knowledge, develop new practices and build futures in the face of extreme uncertainty.

Contents:

Cover

Halftitle

Title

Copyright

Contents

List of abbreviations

List of names and places

Acknowledgements

Map of the region

1. Tomorrow, there will be war! Living with crisis in the borderlands

Part I War Comes to the Borderlands Difference and Belonging in the Villages

2. We have to make a list: Representing lifeworlds in a crisis

3. So, we went with them: Making sense of conflict and competition in the villages

4. In general, they are comfortable: Opportunity and threat in a better-off town

Part II Wartime in the Borderlands aid and emplacement at the camps

5. Clearly, they are 'internally displaced persons': Aid agencies and the making of 'refugees'

6. Those are the only real refugees: Aid and competition in the camps and villages

7. The camps are very different: Negotiating security amidst uncertainty

8. They are our relatives now: Exiting aid, but exiting displacement?

Part III The Aftermath of war state and development from the capital to the borderlands

9. This is neither my first nor second time seeing war: Living through rebellion

10. Before oil, we were poor. Now, we're miserable: Oil's position at the margins of the state

11. This money belongs to the people of Chad: Oil, development, and imagining the state

12. Conclusion: Survival at the margins of the world

Epilogue: War, again

Notes

References

Index

Back cover.

Notes:

Published in collaboration with the International African Institute.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on September 30, 2024).

ISBN:

9780197794548

0197794548

9780197790489

0197790488

9780197790472

019779047X

OCLC:

1427584958