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The borderlands of South Sudan: authority and identity in contemporary and historical perspectives

Vaughan, Christophe, Schomerus, Mareike and De Vries, Lotje, eds. (2013) The borderlands of South Sudan: authority and identity in contemporary and historical perspectives. Palgrave series in African borderlands studies. Palgrave Macmillan, New York, USA. ISBN 9781137340887

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Abstract

Current international discourse on the new state of South Sudan seems fixated on the "state construction." This book aims to broaden the debate by examining the character of regulatory authority in South Sudan's borderlands in both contemporary and historical perspective. The contributions gathered here show that emerging border governance practices challenge the bounded categorization of "state" and "non-state", especially in the complex interactions between state, military, and business actors and power structures. It thus provides a timely and sophisticated contribution to the literature on African borderlands, examining a new state in creation at its borders, and providing an anthropologically and historically informed view of a rapidly evolving situation.

Item Type: Book
Official URL: http://us.macmillan.com/default.aspx
Additional Information: © 2013 Editors
Divisions: Justice and Security Research Programme
Subjects: J Political Science > JA Political science (General)
Date Deposited: 31 Mar 2014 10:46
Last Modified: 15 Sep 2023 21:53
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/56340

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