Introduction: The making of chiefship, state and community in South Sudan

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgements xi
5. Abbreviations xiv
6. Glossary xv
7. Introduction: The making of chiefship, state and community in South Sudan 1
8. Part One. From Zariba to Merkaz: The Creation of the Nodal State Frontier, c. 1840–1920
9. Introduction 18
10. 1 Frontier societies and the political economy of knowledge in the nineteenth century 21
11. 2 Colonial frontiers and the emergence of government chiefs, c. 1900–1920 41
12. Part Two. From Makama to Mejlis: The Making of Chiefship and the Local State, 1920s–1950s
13. Introduction 62
14. 3 Constituting the urban frontier: chiefship and the colonial labour economy, 1920s-1940s 65
15. 4 Claiming rights and guarantees: chiefs' courts and state justice, c. 1900–1956 87
16. 5 Containing the frontier: the tensions of territorial chiefdoms, 1930s–1950s 107
17. 6 Uncertainty on the urban frontier: chiefs and the politics of Sudanese independence, 1946–1958 125
18. Part Three. From Malakiya to Medina: The Fluctuating Expansion of the Urban Frontier, c. 1956–2010
19. Introduction 144
20. 7 Trading knowledge: chiefship, local elites and the urban frontier, c. 1956–2010 147
21. 8 Regulating depredation: chiefs and the military, 1963–2005 165
22. 9 Reprising 'tradition': the mutual production of community and state in the twenty-first century 181
23. 10 Knowing the system: judicial pluralism and discursive legalism in the interim period, 2005–2010 199
24. Conclusion 217
25. Interviews 225
26. Bibliography 231
27. Index 247