New Sudans : Wartime Intellectual Histories in Khartoum (African Studies)

Kindersley, Nicki

Cambridge University Press（2025/02発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 362 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781009422376
• DDC分類 962.62043

Full Description

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.

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.