Based on fieldwork largely collected during the CPA interim period by Sudanese and European researchers, this volume sheds light on the dynamics of change and the relationship between microscale and ...macroscale processes which took place in Sudan between the 1980s and the independence of South Sudan in 2011. Contributors' various disciplinary approaches-socio-anthropological, geographical, political, historical, linguistic-focus on the general issue of "access to resources." The book analyzes major transformations which affected Sudan in the framework of globalization, including land and urban issues; water management; "new" actors and "new conflicts"; and language, identity, and ideology.
Based on fieldwork largely collected during the CPA interim period by Sudanese and European researchers, the volume sheds light on the dynamics of change and the relationship between microscale and ...macroscale processes which took place in Sudan between the 1980s and the independence of South Sudan in 2011. Contributors' various disciplinary approaches - socio-anthropology, geography, politics, history, linguistic - focus on the general issue of
In Sudan, the various modalities of participation in Islam and Arab identity affect relations between populations and segments of society according to variable gradients between recognition and ...denial. From the micro-local to the international scale, the positions between Arabity and Islam intersect the debates on national identity, according to changing and multiple configurations. Regional borders and other institutional arrangements inherited from colonial constructions have given rise to numerous conflicts and reshuffles while forming a referential base. The independence of Southern Sudan in 2011, ending decades of war and ethnic polarization, was a testimony to the failure of national construction. This stage did not end the reconfigurations of identities and power relations in the country, as evidenced by the inclusive slogans dealing with identity issues carried by the revolutionary movement that led in April 2019 to the fall of the Islamic regime in place since 1989. Focused on an interdisciplinary approach, attentive to long-term phenomena and the empirical anchoring of situated fieldworks, this issue is devoted to identity reconfigurations in Sudan. The historical arrangements and the declinations around three notions of ethnicity, religion and nationalism are questioned beyond the specificity of the Sudanese case. Au Soudan, les diverses modalités de participation à l’islam et à l’identité arabe agissent sur les relations entre les populations et les segments de la société selon des gradients variables entre reconnaissance et dénégation. De l’échelle micro-locale à l’échelle internationale, les positionnements entre arabité et islamité entrecroisent les débats sur l’identité nationale, selon des configurations mouvantes et plurivoques. Les frontières régionales et d’autres dispositifs institutionnels hérités des constructions coloniales ont suscité de nombreux conflits et remaniements tout en formant un socle référentiel. L’indépendance du Soudan du Sud en 2011 mettant fin à des décennies de guerre et de polarisation ethnique témoignait cependant de l’échec de la construction nationale. Cette étape n’a par ailleurs pas clos les reconfigurations des identités et des relations de pouvoir comme en attestent les slogans inclusifs portés par le mouvement révolutionnaire qui a mené en avril 2019 à la chute du régime islamique en place depuis 1989. Centré sur une démarche interdisciplinaire, attentive aux phénomènes de la longue durée et à l’ancrage empirique d’enquêtes situées, ce numéro est consacré aux reconfigurations identitaires au Soudan. Les agencements historiques et les déclinaisons autour de trois notions d’ethnicité, de religion et de nationalisme, y sont interrogés au-delà du cas soudanais.
