UID:
almafu_9960117000302883
Umfang:
1 online resource (231 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-78204-634-8
Serie:
Eastern Africa series
Inhalt:
This work engages with a fundamental question in the study of African history and politics: to what extent did the colonial state re-define the character of local politics in the societies it governed? Existing scholarship on Darfur under the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium (1916-1956) has suggested that colonial governance here represented either straightforward continuity or utterly transformative change from the region's deep history of independent statehood under the Darfur Sultanate. This book argues that neither view is adequate: it shows that British rule bequeathed a culture of governance to Darfur which often rested on state coercion and violence, but which was also influenced by enduring local conceptions of the relationship between ruler and ruled, and the agendas of local actors. The state was perceived as a resource as well as a threat by local peoples. Although the British did introduce significant changes to the character of governance in Darfur, local populations negotiated the significance of these innovations, challenging the authority of state-appointed chiefs, defying official attempts to police the boundaries of ethnic territories, and competing for the resources of political support and development that the state represented. Even the violence of the state was shaped and channelled by the initiative of local elites. Finally, the author suggests that contemporary conflict and politics in the region must be understood in the context of this deeper history of interaction between state and local agendas in shaping everyday realities of power and governance. Chris Vaughan is Lecturer in African History at Liverpool John Moores University. Previously, he taught at the Universities of Durham, Leeds, Liverpool and Edinburgh. His articles have appeared in the Journal of African History and the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. He is co-editor (with Lotje De Vries and Mareike Schomerus) of The Borderlands of South Sudan.
Anmerkung:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 21 May 2021).
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Frontcover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Glossary; Map of Darfur showing colonial administrative divisions and ethnic groups; Introduction; 1 State Authority and Local Politics before 1916: The Darfur Sultans, Turco-Egyptian Rule and the Mahdiyya; 2 Colonial Conquest and the Politics of Alliance in Darfur, 1916-1921; 3 'Healthy Oppression'? Native Administration and State Violence in Western Darfur, 1917-1945; 4 Native Courts and Chieftaincy Disputes in Pastoralist Darfur, 1917-1937
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5 Defining Territories, Policing Movement and the Limits of Legibility in Pastoralist Darfur, 1917-19506 Late Colonialism in Darfur: Local Government, Development and National Politics, 1937-1956; Conclusion: State Formation, Violence and Conflict in Historical Perspective; Bibliography; Index
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-84701-111-X
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1515/9781782046349
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781782046349/type/BOOK
