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

Publication Info. New York, New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (260 pages) : maps.
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Series Palgrave series in African borderlands studies
Palgrave series in African borderlands studies.
Note Papers from a workshop held at Durham University in April 2011.
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.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Borderlands -- South Sudan -- Congresses.
South Sudan -- Boundaries -- Congresses.
South Sudan -- Politics and government -- 2011- -- Congresses.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Vaughan, Christopher, 1981- editor.
Schomerus, Mareike, editor.
Vries, Lotje de, 1979- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Borderlands of South Sudan : authority and identity in contemporary and historical perspectives. New York, New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013 xii, 245 pages ; 23 cm. Palgrave series in African borderlands studies 9781137340887 (DLC)10858170
ISBN 9781137340887 (alk. paper)
9781137340894 (e-book)

 
    
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