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Focusing on Greater Khartoum following South Sudanese independence in 2011, In-Betweenness in Greater Khartoum explores the impact on society of major political events in areas that are neither urban nor rural, public nor private. This volume uses these in-between spaces as a lens to analyze how these events, in combination with other processes, such as globalization and economic neo-liberalization, impact communities across the region. Drawing on original fieldwork and empirical data, the authors uncover the reshaping of new categories of people that reinforce old dichotomies and in doing so underscore a common Sudanese identity.
List of contents
List of illustration
Acknowledgements
Notes on Transliteration
Maps
Prologue: Identity [Original text in Arabic translated in English]
Stella Gaitano, translated by Azza Ahmed Abdel Aziz Introduction: Greater Khartoum through the Prism of In-Betweenness
Alice Franck and Barbara Casciarri Part 1: In-Betweenness as a Spatial Dimension Chapter 1. The Expansion of Greater Khartoum and the Incorporation of Agricultural and Pastoral Production Areas: Creating In-Betweenness, Disrupting Territories
Alice Franck and Barbara Casciarri Chapter 2. Governing In-Betweenness: Exploring the Institutional Village Organisation Set-Up in Rural Khartoum
Salma Mohamed Abdalmunim Abdalla Chapter 3. Young People's Strategies and Educational Processes: A Case Study from Al-Fath Transitional Zone in Greater Khartoum
Hind Mahmud Yousif Chapter 4. Disruption Political Order, Creating New Spaces of Contestation
Clément Deshayes Part II: In-Betweenness as a Temporal Dimension Chapter 5. Urban Violence in Khartoum on August 2005 as a Watershed Event
Idris Salim El-Hassan Chapter 6. Time to Sell Land: The Second Urban Marginalization of Southerner in Greater Khartoum - The Case of Mussalass Neighborhood
Alice Franck Chapter 7. Constructions of Sudanese Nationhood: Singularities and Moments from the Experiences of Southern/South Sudanese
Azza Ahmed Abdel Aziz Part III: In-Betweenness as a Belonging Dimension Chapter 8. Translocal Citizenship of the Margins: Nuer Negotiations of Belonging in Khartoum
Katarzyna Grabska Chapter 9. 'Community' Citizenship as a Liminal Space for Southern Sudanese Communities in Khartoum
Mohamed A.G. Bakhit Chapter 10. Marriage Strategies and Kinship Representations: A Space for Socio-Cultural In-Betweenness within the 'Political Economy' of Identities
Barbara Casciarri Chapter 11. Shifting Notions of Endogamy and Exogamy: Religion, Social Class and Race in Marriage Strategies and Practices in the Urban Upper-Middle Class Neighbourhood of Al-Amarat, Khartou
Peter Miller Epilogue: Negotiations of Multiple Identities and the Polemics of Living In-betweenness: In Conversation with Stella Gaitano
Azza Ahmed Abdel Aziz and Katarzyna Grabska Index
About the author
Barbara Casciarri is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University Paris 8. She was coordinator of the CEDEJ in Khartoum between 2006 and 2009. In addition to editing two special issues of
Nomadic Peoples, she co-edited the collected volumes
Multidimensional Change in Sudan 1989-2011 (Berghahn Books, 2015) and
Anthropology of Law in Muslim Sudan (Brill, 2018).
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