Description
Book Synopsis Focusing on Greater Khartoum following South Sudanese independence in 2011, In-Betweenness in Greater Khartoum explores the impact on society of major political events in areas that are neither urban nor rural, public nor private. This volume uses these in-between spaces as a lens to analyze how these events, in combination with other processes, such as globalization and economic neo-liberalization, impact communities across the region. Drawing on original fieldwork and empirical data, the authors uncover the reshaping of new categories of people that reinforce old dichotomies and in doing so underscore a common Sudanese identity.
Trade Review “[The volume] offers a deeply grounded analysis of recent changes in the capital of Sudan. [It] instates Khartoum within the cities important to consider for the urban world in the making [and] provides a nuanced and complex portrait of a giant metropolis – the largest of the Sahelian region with its 7 – 8 million inhabitants…Exposing the changes, seen from the ground in various neighbourhoods and communities from the 2005 peace agreement to the 2018 Revolution, it introduces Khartoum as a place to think about the negotiation of a place to live by subaltern populations. It is significant to point out that this book brings together Sudanese and women’s productions that display young, new, original voices and research.” • Urban Studies Journal
Table of Contents List of illustration
Acknowledgements
Notes on Transliteration
Maps
Prologue: Identity [Original text in Arabic translated in English]
Stella Gaitano, translated by Azza Ahmed Abdel Aziz
Introduction: Greater Khartoum through the Prism of In-Betweenness
Alice Franck and Barbara Casciarri
Part 1: In-Betweenness as a Spatial Dimension
Chapter 1. The Expansion of Greater Khartoum and the Incorporation of Agricultural and Pastoral Production Areas: Creating In-Betweenness, Disrupting Territories
Alice Franck and Barbara Casciarri
Chapter 2. Governing In-Betweenness: Exploring the Institutional Village Organisation Set-Up in Rural Khartoum
Salma Mohamed Abdalmunim Abdalla
Chapter 3. Young People’s Strategies and Educational Processes: A Case Study from Al-Fath Transitional Zone in Greater Khartoum
Hind Mahmud Yousif
Chapter 4. Disruption Political Order, Creating New Spaces of Contestation
Clément Deshayes
Part II: In-Betweenness as a Temporal Dimension
Chapter 5. Urban Violence in Khartoum on August 2005 as a Watershed Event
Idris Salim El-Hassan
Chapter 6. Time to Sell Land: The Second Urban Marginalization of Southerner in Greater Khartoum – The Case of Mussalass Neighborhood
Alice Franck
Chapter 7. Constructions of Sudanese Nationhood: Singularities and Moments from the Experiences of Southern/South Sudanese
Azza Ahmed Abdel Aziz
Part III: In-Betweenness as a Belonging Dimension
Chapter 8. Translocal Citizenship of the Margins: Nuer Negotiations of Belonging in Khartoum
Katarzyna Grabska
Chapter 9. ‘Community’ Citizenship as a Liminal Space for Southern Sudanese Communities in Khartoum
Mohamed A.G. Bakhit
Chapter 10. Marriage Strategies and Kinship Representations: A Space for Socio-Cultural In-Betweenness within the ‘Political Economy’ of Identities
Barbara Casciarri
Chapter 11. Shifting Notions of Endogamy and Exogamy: Religion, Social Class and Race in Marriage Strategies and Practices in the Urban Upper-Middle Class Neighbourhood of Al-Amarat, Khartou
Peter Miller
Epilogue: Negotiations of Multiple Identities and the Polemics of Living In-betweenness: In Conversation with Stella Gaitano
Azza Ahmed Abdel Aziz and Katarzyna Grabska
Index
