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This book examines how ordinary people have induced the most important political shifts in the history of the Sudan, including the last 2019 Revolution but also how they have participated to the construction of consensus that regimes needed to survive. The two volumes of the book follow an organization according to discipline: the first is mostly on social history and the second on 'politics from below'.

Gender and Politics in Sudan, by Sondra Hale - Westview Press, 1996

How and where did returning Nuer refugees make their ''homes'' in southern Sudan? How were gender relations and identity redefined as a result of war, displacement and return to post-war communities? And how were those displaced able to recreate a sense of home, community and nation? During the civil wars in Southern Sudan (1983-2005) many of the displaced Sudanese, including many Nuer, were in refugee camps in Kenya and Ethiopia. In the aftermath of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, they repatriated to Southern Sudan. Faced with finding long-lost relatives and local expectations of ''prope

Expanding access to education for boys & girls is a critical Millennium Development Goal & peace-building challenge. In southern Sudan, as in other post-conflict societies, many girls remain excluded from schooling opportunities which could help develop the knowledge, skills & attitudes to build a peaceful society. Adapted from the source document.

Decades of under-development & conflict have left South Sudanese women -- in the words of the late John Garang -- "the poorest of the poor & the marginalised of the marginalised." It is in this context that violence against women & girls breeds. Adapted from the source document.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Part One Introduction -- 1 Theory, Living Fieldwork, and Autobiography: An Introduction -- Setting the Problematic -- Political Institutions, Gender, and Identity Politics -- A Question of Methods: Reveries of a Reluctant Interventionist -- Locating the Work -- Development of the Argument -- Notes -- 2 Locating Sudanese Women's Studies -- Introduction -- Gender and Middle Eastern Studies -- Feminist Scholarship on the Middle East -- Sudanese Women's Studies -- Notes -- Part Two Background to Sudan and Sudanese Women -- 3 History and Political Economy: Gender, Ethnicity, Religion, and the State -- Situating the Study -- History and Ethnography -- The State, Gender, Religion, and the Military: The Dynamics of Post-Independence Politics -- Notes -- 4 Women in Contemporary Northern Sudan -- Introduction -- Technology and "Development": Neocolonialism and Gender Ideology -- The Conditions of Women's Lives-Sudanese Perspectives on Demographics, Education, and Labor-A Commentary -- The Conditions of Women's Lives-Sudanese Perspectives on Legal and Political Status-A Commentary -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Part Three Two Case Studies -- 5 The Wing of the Patriarch: The Sudanese Communist Party and the Women's Union -- Introduction -- The Sudanese Communist Party and the Women's Union -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 6 Islamism and the Women Activists of the National Islamic Front -- Introduction -- Overprivileging Islam? -- Background: Nimieri's State, Islam, and the Rise of Islamism -- Women, Labor, Education, and Personal Status Laws-The Public Debates -- Public Debates on the Social Construction of Woman-Commentaries on the Islamists, Sharia, and Everyday Life -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 7 Culture and Transformation: Concluding Remarks