Cherry Leonardi, Cherry Leonardi

Dealing with Government in South Sudan

Histories of Chiefship, Community and State

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

South Sudan became Africa's newest nation in 2011, following decades of armed conflict. Chiefs - or 'traditional authorities' - became a particular focus of attention during the international relief effort and post-war reconstruction and state-building. But 'traditional' authority in South Sudan has often been misunderstood to be a timeless or 'non-state' institution. This book argues for the mutual constitution of chiefship and the state since the mid-nineteenth century. By examining the long-term history of chiefship in the vicinity of three towns, it argues for a new approach to the history of urbanisation and local state formation in South Sudan. It also addresses a significant paradox in African studies more widely: if chiefs were the product of colonial states, why have they survived or revived in recent decades?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: James Currey
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 578g
• ISBN-13: 9781847010674
• ISBN-10: 1847010679
• Artikelnr.: 36726081

Autorenporträt

Cherry Leonardi

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: the making of chiefship, state and community in South Sudan -
PART I: From zariba to merkaz: the creation of the nodal state frontier, c.
1840-1920 Frontier societies and the political economy of knowledge in the
nineteenth century Colonial frontiers and the emergence of government
chiefs, c. 1900-20 - PART II: From makama to mejlis: the making of
chiefship and the local state, 1920s-50s Constituting the urban frontier:
chiefship and the colonial labour economy, 1920s-40s Claiming rights and
guarantees: chiefs' courts and state justice, c. 1900-56 Containing the
frontier: the tensions of territorial chiefdoms, 1930s-50s Uncertainty on
the urban frontier: chiefs and the politics of Sudanese independence,
1946-58 - PART III: From malakiya to medina: the fluctuating expansion of
the urban frontier, c. 1956-2010 Trading knowledge: chiefship, local elites
and the urban frontier, c. 1956-2010 Regulating depredation: chiefs and the
military, 1963-2005 Reprising 'tradition': the mutual production of
community and state in the twenty-first century Knowing the system:
judicial pluralism and discursive legalism in the interim period, 2005-10
Conclusion