The Borderlands of South Sudan : Authority and Identity in Contemporary and Historical Perspectives / / edited by C. Vaughan, M. Schomerus, L. de Vries

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910973103103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2013
• ISBN: 9781349464982; 1349464988; 9781137340894; 1137340894
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2013.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (260 p.)
• Collana: Palgrave Series in African Borderlands Studies, , 2946-2827
• Disciplina: 962.9051
• Soggetti: Africa - History; World politics; Economic development; Africa - Politics and government; Imperialism; African History; Political History; Development Studies; African Politics; Imperialism and Colonialism
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Papers from a workshop held at Durham University in April 2011.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction : negotiating borders, defining South Sudan / Mareike Schomerus, Lotje de Vries and Christopher Vaughan -- Too much water under the bridge : internationalization of the Sudan-South Sudan border and local demands for its regulation / Øystein H. Rolandsen -- Unclear lines : state and non-state actors in Abyei / Joshua Craze -- Pastoralists, conflicts and politics : aspects of South Sudan's Kenyan frontier / Immo Eulenberger -- The Nuba political predicament in Sudan(s) : seeking resources beyond borders / Guma Kunda Komey -- ; Alternative citizenship : the Nuer between Ethiopia and the Sudan / Dereje Feyissa -- The Rizeigat-Malual borderland during the condominium : the limits of legibility / Christopher Vaughan -- Pulling the ropes : convenient indeterminacies and the negotiation of power at Kaya's border checkpoint / Lotje de Vries -- State-making and emerging complexes of power and accumulation in the Southern Sudan-Kenyan border area : the rise of a thriving cross-border business network / Anne Walraet -- Labour and the making of Central African borders / Edward Thomas -- Whatever happened to the "safe havens"? Imposing state boundaries between the Sudanese plains and the Ethiopian highlands / Wendy James.
• Sommario/riassunto: Moving beyond the current fixation on "state construction," the interdisciplinary work gathered here explores regulatory authority in South Sudan's borderlands from both contemporary and historical perspectives. Taken together, these studies show how emerging governance practices challenge the bounded categorizations of "state" and "non-state.".