New Sudans - Wartime Intellectual Histories in Khartoum

"Based on ten years of research in South Sudan, and hundreds of stories, poems, songs, jokes and photographs, this book tells the history of political ideas and projects organised by South Sudanese people displaced by war and famine in the capital Khartoum over Sudan's second civil war from 1983-2005."--

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Dar Es Salaam: flight and the fight for space in Khartoum, 1988-1992; 2. Building marginalisation in the displaced city; 3. Community space and self-defence; 4. Alternative education; 5. Intellectual work and political thought on the Peripheries; 6. Akut Kuei and wartime mobilisation; 7. Military Independence and Khartoum's warlord communities; 8. Return, 2005-2011; Conclusion: intellectual histories for other possibilities; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Nicki Kindersley is Lecturer in African History in the School of History, Archaeology and Religion at Cardiff University. She was previously a Harry F. Guggenheim Research Fellow at Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, and holds a PhD from Durham University.

Product details

• Authors: Nicki Kindersley, Nicki (Cardiff University) Kindersley
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2024
• EAN: 9781009422376
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0942237-6
• No. of pages: 372
• Series: African Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Sudan, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, HISTORY / Africa / North, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, Politics & government, Politics and government, African History, c 1970 to c 1980, c 1990 to c 2000, c 1990 to c 1999, c 1980 to c 1989, Khartoum