Ordinary Sudan, 1504–2019
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Edited by:
Elena Vezzadini
About this book
This book starts from the premise that the study of "exceptionally normal" women and men – as conceived by microhistory – has radical implications for understanding history and politics, and applies this notion to Sudan. Against a historiography dominated by elite actors and international agents, it examines both how ordinary people have brought about the most important political shifts in the country’s history (including the recent revolution in 2019) and how they have played a role in maintaining authoritarian regimes. It also explores how men and women have led their daily lives through a web of ordinary worries, desires and passions.
The book includes contributions by historians, anthropologists, and political scientists who often have a dual commitment to Middle Eastern and African studies. While focusing on the complexity and nuances of Sudanese local lives in both the past and the present, it also connects Sudan and South Sudan with broader regional, global, and imperial trends.
The book is divided into two volumes and six parts, ordered thematically. The first part tackles the entanglement between archives, social history, and power. The second focuses on women’s agency in history and politics from the Funj era to the recent 2018-2019 revolution. Part 3 includes contributions on the history and global connections of the Sudanese armed forces. In the second volume, part 4 intersects the themes of urban life, leisure, and colonial attitudes with queerness. In part 5, labour identities, practices, and institutions are discussed both in urban milieus and against the background of war and expropriation in rural areas. Finally, part 6 studies the construction of social consent under various self-styled Islamic regimes, as well as the emergence of alternative imaginaries and acts of citizenship in times of political openness.
Author / Editor information
E. Vezzadini, CNRS; I. Seri-Hersch, Aix-Marseille Univ.; L. Revilla, IRD; A. Poussier, Paris 1 Univ.; M. Abdul Jalil, Bahri Univ.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Note on Arabic Transliteration
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List of Maps, Figures, Tables and Graphs
XIII - Volume 1
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Introduction: Bringing Ordinary People Back into Sudan Studies
1 - Part 1: Social History, Political Engagement and Archival Issues
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Chapter 1 Re-examining the “Sources of the Sudanese Revolution”: Discussing the Social History of Sudan after the December 2018 Revolution
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Chapter 2 Sudanese Women’s Participation in the December 2018 Revolution: Historical Roots and Mobilisation Patterns
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Chapter 3 From the Terraces of Celebrated Narratives to the Cellars of Tarnished History: Obliterating Knowledge in Sudanese and Arab Historiography
87 - Part 2: Retrieving Women’s Agency in Sudanese History and Society
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Chapter 4 Women in the Funj Era as Evidenced in the Kitāb Ṭabaqāt Wad Ḍayfallāh
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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)
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Chapter 6 For the Sake of Moderation: The Sudanese General Women’s Union’s Interpretations of Female “Empowerment” (1990–2019)
179 - Part 3: Armed Men between Global Connections and Local Practices
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Chapter 7 The Sudanese Soldiers Who Went to Mexico (1863–1867): A Global History from the Nile Valley to North America
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Chapter 8 Bāsh-Būzūq and Artillery Men: Sudan, Eritrea and the Transnational Market for Military Work (1885–1918)
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Chapter 9 Police Models in Sudan: General Features and Historical Development
265 - Volume 2
- Part 4: Urban Life, Queer History, and Leisure in Colonial Times
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Chapter 10 The Urban Fabric between Tradition and Modernity (1885–1956): Omdurman, Khartoum, and the British Master Plan of 1910
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Chapter 11 Colonial Morality and Local Traditions: British Policies and Sudanese Attitudes Towards Alcohol, 1898–1956
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Chapter 12 Colonial Homophobia: Externalising Queerness in Condominium Sudan
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Chapter 13 Cinema, Southern Sudan and the End of Empire, 1943–1965
387 - Part 5: Labour Identities, Practices and Institutions
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Chapter 14 The Borgeig Pump Scheme in Wartime Colonial Sudan (1942–1945): Social Hierarchies, Labour and Native Administration
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Chapter 15 Industrial Relations in a British Bank in 1960s Sudan
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Chapter 16 Being Dayāma: Social Formation and Political Mobilisation in a Working Class Neighbourhood of Khartoum
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Chapter 17 Midwifery in the Nuba Mountains/South Kordofan as Vocation, Education, and Practice (1970s–2011)
505 - Part 6: The Ordinary Doing and Undoing of the Establishment
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Chapter 18 Governing Men and their Souls: The Making of a Mahdist Society in Eastern Sudan (1883–1891)
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Chapter 19 Liberation from Fear: Regional Mobilisation in Sudan after the 1964 Revolution
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Chapter 20 Education, Violence, and Transitional Uncertainties: Teaching “Military Sciences” in Sudan, 2005–2011
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Chapter 21 The “Civilisational Project” from Below: Everyday Politics, Social Mobility and Neighbourhood Morality under the Late Inqādh Regime
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Notes on Contributors
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Index
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