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

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Superior document:Palgrave series in African borderlands studies
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Place / Publishing House:New York, New York : : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2013.
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Palgrave series in African borderlands studies.
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Physical Description:1 online resource (260 pages) :; maps.
Notes:Papers from a workshop held at Durham University in April 2011.
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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.