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Although uncertainty is intertwined with all human activity, plans,
and aspirations, it is experienced differently: at times it is
obsessed over and at times it is ignored. This ethnography shows
how Rashaida in north-eastern Sudan deal with unknowns from
day-to-day unpredictability to life-threatening dangers. It argues
that the amplification of uncertainty in some cases and its
extenuation in others can be better understood by focusing on forms
that can either hold the world together or invite doubt.
Uncertainty, then, need not be seen solely as a debilitating
problem, but also as an opportunity to create other futures.
This volume advances a comprehensive transdisciplinary approach to
the affective lives of institutions - theoretical, conceptual,
empirical, and critical. With this approach, the volume foregrounds
the role of affect in sustaining as well as transforming
institutional arrangements that are deeply problematic. As part of
its analysis, this book develops a novel understanding of
institutional affect. It explores how institutions produce, frame,
and condition affective dynamics and emotional repertoires, in ways
that engender conformance or resistance to institutional
requirements. This collection of works will be important for
scholars and students of interdisciplinary affect and emotion
studies from a wide range of disciplines, including social
sciences, cultural studies, social and cultural anthropology,
organizational and institution studies, media studies, social
philosophy, aesthetics, and critical theory.
Although uncertainty is intertwined with all human activity, plans,
and aspirations, it is experienced differently: at times it is
obsessed over and at times it is ignored. This ethnography shows
how Rashaida in north-eastern Sudan deal with unknowns from
day-to-day unpredictability to life-threatening dangers. It argues
that the amplification of uncertainty in some cases and its
extenuation in others can be better understood by focusing on forms
that can either hold the world together or invite doubt.
Uncertainty, then, need not be seen solely as a debilitating
problem, but also as an opportunity to create other futures.
This volume advances a comprehensive transdisciplinary approach to
the affective lives of institutions - theoretical, conceptual,
empirical, and critical. With this approach, the volume foregrounds
the role of affect in sustaining as well as transforming
institutional arrangements that are deeply problematic. As part of
its analysis, this book develops a novel understanding of
institutional affect. It explores how institutions produce, frame,
and condition affective dynamics and emotional repertoires, in ways
that engender conformance or resistance to institutional
requirements. This collection of works will be important for
scholars and students of interdisciplinary affect and emotion
studies from a wide range of disciplines, including social
sciences, cultural studies, social and cultural anthropology,
organizational and institution studies, media studies, social
philosophy, aesthetics, and critical theory.
This is the first book of its kind on Sudan, and arguably one of
the first in North Africa. We are part of an emerging, more
cosmopolitan approach that calls for a reassessment of ideas about
not only the concept of identities, but also about migration and
technology, especially social media. Our essayists engage in
redefinitions, the broadening of our key variables, the linking and
intersecting of concepts, and the investigations of methods and
ethics, and opt for an approach that is, at once, culturally
specific to Sudan (one of the most fluid social landscapes in the
world) and transnational. Our essays address the narrowness of
studies of migration and note the almost total neglect in the
broader Sudan literature of the rise of technology-mobile telephony
and social media, in particular. Furthermore, our essayists address
the near neglect in the Sudan literature of certain categories of
people, such as youth, or certain diverse spaces, such as
neighborhoods or gold mines. We have also been attempting to move
away from the nearly stereotypic descriptions of Sudan to deal with
topics that align Sudan with transnational issues and themes,
knowledge production among them. This multidisciplinary collection
of essays is the first comprehensive work to grapple explicitly
with the question of knowledge production in such a diverse social
landscape. We discuss the impact of current trends in information
technology and contemporary forms of identity and mobility on
knowledge production. These issues are pertinent for different
sectors such as academia, government or business, and, as we
demonstrate, reveal a myriad of possibilities for studying diverse
population groups like youth, women, diaspora, or specific
political contexts such as conflict or oppression.
Examines the commodification of land rights and the effect of
international licences for resource extraction on the pastoral
communities of Sudan. Nowhere has a range of case studies of Sudan
been brought together in a single volume. Given the concern with
the growing number and complexity of conflicts in Sudan and South
Sudan there is a significant readership in academic circles and
from those involved in humanitarian organisations of all kinds.
Professor Peter Woodward, University of Reading "A timely
contribution to an important set of debates ... tackles questions
emerging from discussions about modernisation, urbanisation and
globalisation from an explicitly local angle with regards to
Sudan." Dr Harry Verhoeven, University of Oxford Sudan experiences
one of the most severe fissures between society and territory in
Africa. Not only were its international borders redrawn when South
Sudan separated in 2011, but conflicts continue to erupt over
access to land: territorial claims are challenged by local and
international actors; borders are contested; contracts governing
the privatization of resources are contentious; and the legal
entitlements to agricultural land are disputed. Under these new
dynamics of land grabbing and resource extraction, fundamental
relationships between people and land are being disrupted: while
land has become a global commodity, for millions it still serves as
a crucial reference for identity-formation and constitutes their
most important source of livelihood. This book seeks to disentangle
the emerging relationships between people and land in Sudan. The
first part focuses on the spatial impact of resource-extracting
economies: foreign agricultural land acquisitions; Chinese
investments in oil production; and competition between artisanal
and industrial gold mining. Detailed ethnographic case studies in
the second part, from Darfur, South Kordofan, Red Sea State,
Kassala, Blue Nile, and Khartoum State, show how rural people
experience "their" land vis-a-vis the latest wave of privatization
and commercialization of land rights. Joerg Gertel is Professor of
Economic Geography at Leipzig University; Richard Rottenburg is
Chair of Anthropology at the University of Halle; Sandra Calkins is
a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social
Anthropology in Halle
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