The borderlands of South Sudan : : authority and identity in contemporary and historical perspectives / / edited by Christopher Vaughan, Mareike Schomerus, Lotje de Vries.

• Superior document: Palgrave series in African borderlands studies
• TeilnehmendeR: Vaughan, Christopher, 1981-; Schomerus, Mareike,; Vries, Lotje de, 1979-
• Place / Publishing House: New York, New York : : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2013.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Palgrave series in African borderlands studies.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (260 pages) :; maps.
• Notes: Papers from a workshop held at Durham University in April 2011.

Table of Contents

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 / ystein 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.