New Sudans

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-1-009-42237-6
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 362 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 675 g

Reihe: African Studies

Over a million southern Sudanese people fled to Sudan's capital Khartoum during the wars and famines of the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. This book is an intellectual history of these war-displaced working people's political organising and critical theory during a long conflict. It explores how these men and women thought through their circumstances, tried to build potential political communities, and imagined possible futures. Based on ten years of research in South Sudan, using personal stories, private archives, songs, poetry, photograph albums, self-written histories, jokes and new handmade textbooks, New Sudans follows its idealists' and pragmatists' variously radical, conservative, and creative projects across two decades on the peripheries of a hostile city. Through everyday theories of Blackness, freedom and education in a long civil war, Nicki Kindersley opens up new possibilities in postcolonial intellectual histories of the working class in Africa.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kindersley, Nicki

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

Kindersley, Nicki
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.