Ordinary Sudan, 1504–2019: From Social History to Politics from Below 
Volume 1 | Volume 2

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2023

Ordinary Sudan, 1504–2019

From Social History to Politics from Below Volume 1 | Volume 2

Edited by: Elena Vezzadini , Iris Seri-Hersch , Lucie Revilla , Anael Poussier and Mahassin Abdul Jalil

Volume 6 in the series Africa in Global History

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110719611

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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 Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Note on Arabic Transliteration Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
List of Maps, Figures, Tables and Graphs Publicly Available Download PDF	XIII
Volume 1
Introduction: Bringing Ordinary People Back into Sudan Studies Iris Seri-Hersch, Elena Vezzadini and Lucie Revilla Open Access Download PDF	1
Part 1: Social History, Political Engagement and Archival Issues
Chapter 1 Re-examining the “Sources of the Sudanese Revolution”: Discussing the Social History of Sudan after the December 2018 Revolution Yoshiko Kurita Open Access Download PDF	37
Chapter 2 Sudanese Women’s Participation in the December 2018 Revolution: Historical Roots and Mobilisation Patterns Safa Mohamed Kheir Osman Open Access Download PDF	57
Chapter 3 From the Terraces of Celebrated Narratives to the Cellars of Tarnished History: Obliterating Knowledge in Sudanese and Arab Historiography Mahassin Abdul Jalil Open Access Download PDF	87
Part 2: Retrieving Women’s Agency in Sudanese History and Society
Chapter 4 Women in the Funj Era as Evidenced in the Kitāb Ṭabaqāt Wad Ḍayfallāh Amel Osman Hamed Open Access Download PDF	121
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) Elena Vezzadini Open Access Download PDF	147
Chapter 6 For the Sake of Moderation: The Sudanese General Women’s Union’s Interpretations of Female “Empowerment” (1990–2019) Abir Nur Open Access Download PDF	179
Part 3: Armed Men between Global Connections and Local Practices
Chapter 7 The Sudanese Soldiers Who Went to Mexico (1863–1867): A Global History from the Nile Valley to North America Heather J. Sharkey Open Access Download PDF	209
Chapter 8 Bāsh-Būzūq and Artillery Men: Sudan, Eritrea and the Transnational Market for Military Work (1885–1918) Massimo Zaccaria Open Access Download PDF	237
Chapter 9 Police Models in Sudan: General Features and Historical Development Ammar Mohamed Elbagir Ibrahim Open Access Download PDF	265
Volume 2
Part 4: Urban Life, Queer History, and Leisure in Colonial Times
Chapter 10 The Urban Fabric between Tradition and Modernity (1885–1956): Omdurman, Khartoum, and the British Master Plan of 1910 Marina D’Errico Open Access Download PDF	289
Chapter 11 Colonial Morality and Local Traditions: British Policies and Sudanese Attitudes Towards Alcohol, 1898–1956 Ahmad Alawad Sikainga Open Access Download PDF	335
Chapter 12 Colonial Homophobia: Externalising Queerness in Condominium Sudan Willow Berridge Open Access Download PDF	361
Chapter 13 Cinema, Southern Sudan and the End of Empire, 1943–1965 Brendan Tuttle and Joseph Chol Duot Open Access Download PDF	387
Part 5: Labour Identities, Practices and Institutions
Chapter 14 The Borgeig Pump Scheme in Wartime Colonial Sudan (1942–1945): Social Hierarchies, Labour and Native Administration Enrico Ille Open Access Download PDF	419
Chapter 15 Industrial Relations in a British Bank in 1960s Sudan Harry Cross Open Access Download PDF	447
Chapter 16 Being Dayāma: Social Formation and Political Mobilisation in a Working Class Neighbourhood of Khartoum Barbara Casciarri Open Access Download PDF	473
Chapter 17 Midwifery in the Nuba Mountains/South Kordofan as Vocation, Education, and Practice (1970s–2011) Mariam Sharif Open Access Download PDF	505
Part 6: The Ordinary Doing and Undoing of the Establishment
Chapter 18 Governing Men and their Souls: The Making of a Mahdist Society in Eastern Sudan (1883–1891) Anaël Poussier Open Access Download PDF	535
Chapter 19 Liberation from Fear: Regional Mobilisation in Sudan after the 1964 Revolution Moritz A. Mihatsch Open Access Download PDF	565
Chapter 20 Education, Violence, and Transitional Uncertainties: Teaching “Military Sciences” in Sudan, 2005–2011 Iris Seri-Hersch Open Access Download PDF	589
Chapter 21 The “Civilisational Project” from Below: Everyday Politics, Social Mobility and Neighbourhood Morality under the Late Inqādh Regime Lucie Revilla Open Access Download PDF	619
Notes on Contributors Open Access Download PDF	649
Index Open Access Download PDF	653

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: scholars and graduate students interested in African history, colonial and gender history
Pages
- Front matter: 22
- Main content: 671
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 11
- Coloured Illustrations: 28
- Tables: 5
Keywords: Social history; Sudan; Gender history; Politics from below; Social movements in Sudan

eBook

Published: July 24, 2023
ISBN: 9783110719611

Hardcover

Published: July 24, 2023
ISBN: 9783110719505