Darfur Allegory

"Darfur Allegory is a dispatch from the humanitarian crisis that explains the historical and ethnographic background to competing narratives that have informed international responses. At the heart of the book is Sudanese anthropologist Rogaia Abusharaf's critique of the pseudoscientific notions of race and ethnicity that posit divisions between "Arab" northerners and "African" southerners. Elaborated in colonial times and enshrined in policy after, such binary categories have been adopted by the media to explain the civil war. The narratives that circulate internationally are thus highly fraught and cover over, to counterproductive effect, forms of Darfurian activism that have emerged in the conflict's wake. Darfur Allegory marries the analytical precision of a committed anthropologist with an insider's view of Sudanese politics at home and in the diaspora, laying bare the power of words to heal or perpetuate civil conflict"--

About the author

Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf is professor of anthropology at the Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service in Qatar, Georgetown University.

Summary

Darfur Allegory marries the analytical precision of a committed anthropologist with an insiders view of Sudanese politics at home and in the diaspora, laying bare the power of words to heal or perpetuate civil conflict.

Product details

• Authors: ROGAIA MU ABUSHARAF, Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf, Abusharaf Rogaia Mustafa
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2021
• EAN: 9780226761725
• ISBN: 978-0-226-76172-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Egypt, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, HISTORY / Africa / North, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Comparative Politics, Social and cultural anthropology, Middle Eastern history, African History, North Africa, HISTORY / Middle East / Egypt