South Sudan: A Slow Liberation - Couverture rigide

Thomas, Edward

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9781783604050: South Sudan: A Slow Liberation

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ISBN 10 : 1783604050 ISBN 13 : 9781783604050

Editeur : Zed Books Ltd, 2015

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Pr�sentation de l'�diteur :

In 2011, South Sudan became an independent country. Its long liberation struggle was an attempt to right the wrongs of history: a brutal colonial conquest that was followed by more than a century of deliberate neglect and racial oppression organized by governments headquartered at Khartoum. The long struggle has had a violent aftermath. The war of liberation chaotically reconfigured the economy of South Sudan's pastoralist hinterlands around looting, markets and humanitarian aid. In some of the hinterlands, South Sudan's independence was marked with raids and massacres that pitted ethnic communities against each other.

This book gives a revealingly multi-layered description of what is happening in South Sudan today. Writing from the perspective of South Sudan's most mutinous hinterland, Jonglei state, it explains how an area so remote from the power and wealth of the national capital was at the heart of South Sudan's painful, slow history of state power and liberation. Jonglei's experience - at once central and peripheral - exemplifies South Sudan's own history as a rebel province that could bring down Sudanese governments. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and a broad, deep literature review, this book gives a sharply focused, new account of the country's long unfinished struggle for liberation.

Revue de presse :

'This is the most lucid, insightful account of South Sudan's predicament in print. Privileging South Sudanese voices, and threading together social and economic history, and political and military analysis, with personal testimony, demography and anthropology, it is essential reading for those wishing to understand the current civil war. It is also beautifully written.' --Alex De Waal, Executive Director of the World Peace Foundation and author of 'Darfur: A short history of a long war'

'South Sudan: A Slow Liberation succinctly examines the challenges that continue to face South Sudanese struggling for freedom while at the same time stubbornly refusing to break loose of the archaic social relations and customs that militate against modernity - the essence of liberation - and the emergence of the modern state in South Sudan.' --Peter Adwok Nyaba, former minister of higher education for South Sudan

'A must read for all interested in South Sudan, the world's newest state. Thomas's well-written book expertly documents how statehood came about, its fragility and the lessons from history for South Sudan's future.' --Alex Vines, OBE, head of the Africa programme at Chatham House and co-director of the African Studies Centre, Coventry University

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