Notes on Contributors

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Acknowledgments IX
4. Note on Arabic Transliteration XI
5. List of Maps, Figures, Tables and Graphs XIII
6. Volume 1
7. Introduction: Bringing Ordinary People Back into Sudan Studies 1
8. Part 1: Social History, Political Engagement and Archival Issues
9. Chapter 1 Re-examining the “Sources of the Sudanese Revolution”: Discussing the Social History of Sudan after the December 2018 Revolution 37
10. Chapter 2 Sudanese Women’s Participation in the December 2018 Revolution: Historical Roots and Mobilisation Patterns 57
11. Chapter 3 From the Terraces of Celebrated Narratives to the Cellars of Tarnished History: Obliterating Knowledge in Sudanese and Arab Historiography 87
12. Part 2: Retrieving Women’s Agency in Sudanese History and Society
13. Chapter 4 Women in the Funj Era as Evidenced in the Kitāb Ṭabaqāt Wad Ḍayfallāh 121
14. Chapter 5 Emancipation through the Press: The Women’s Movement and its Discourses on the “Women’s Problem” in Sudan on the Eve of Independence (1950–1956) 147
15. Chapter 6 For the Sake of Moderation: The Sudanese General Women’s Union’s Interpretations of Female “Empowerment” (1990–2019) 179
16. Part 3: Armed Men between Global Connections and Local Practices
17. Chapter 7 The Sudanese Soldiers Who Went to Mexico (1863–1867): A Global History from the Nile Valley to North America 209
18. Chapter 8 Bāsh-Būzūq and Artillery Men: Sudan, Eritrea and the Transnational Market for Military Work (1885–1918) 237
19. Chapter 9 Police Models in Sudan: General Features and Historical Development 265
20. Volume 2
21. Part 4: Urban Life, Queer History, and Leisure in Colonial Times
22. Chapter 10 The Urban Fabric between Tradition and Modernity (1885–1956): Omdurman, Khartoum, and the British Master Plan of 1910 289
23. Chapter 11 Colonial Morality and Local Traditions: British Policies and Sudanese Attitudes Towards Alcohol, 1898–1956 335
24. Chapter 12 Colonial Homophobia: Externalising Queerness in Condominium Sudan 361
25. Chapter 13 Cinema, Southern Sudan and the End of Empire, 1943–1965 387
26. Part 5: Labour Identities, Practices and Institutions
27. Chapter 14 The Borgeig Pump Scheme in Wartime Colonial Sudan (1942–1945): Social Hierarchies, Labour and Native Administration 419
28. Chapter 15 Industrial Relations in a British Bank in 1960s Sudan 447
29. Chapter 16 Being Dayāma: Social Formation and Political Mobilisation in a Working Class Neighbourhood of Khartoum 473
30. Chapter 17 Midwifery in the Nuba Mountains/South Kordofan as Vocation, Education, and Practice (1970s–2011) 505
31. Part 6: The Ordinary Doing and Undoing of the Establishment
32. Chapter 18 Governing Men and their Souls: The Making of a Mahdist Society in Eastern Sudan (1883–1891) 535
33. Chapter 19 Liberation from Fear: Regional Mobilisation in Sudan after the 1964 Revolution 565
34. Chapter 20 Education, Violence, and Transitional Uncertainties: Teaching “Military Sciences” in Sudan, 2005–2011 589
35. Chapter 21 The “Civilisational Project” from Below: Everyday Politics, Social Mobility and Neighbourhood Morality under the Late Inqādh Regime 619
36. Notes on Contributors 649
37. Index 653