ISBN:
0226001997
,
0226002004
,
9780226001999
,
9780226002002
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xii, 183 p., [10] p. of plates)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Transforming Displaced Women in Sudan : Politics and the Body in a Squatter Settlement
DDC:
305.48/96914096262
Keywords:
Women Social conditions
;
Internally displaced persons
;
Squatters
;
Squatter settlements
;
Khartoum (Sudan) Social conditions
;
Sudan
;
Frau
;
Displaced Person
;
Soziale Situation
;
Sozialanthropologie
Abstract:
Over 20 years of civil war in predominantly Christian Southern Sudan has forced countless people from their homes. This book examines the lives of women who have forged a new community in a shantytown on the outskirts of Khartoum, the largely Muslim, heavily Arabized capital in the north of the country.
Abstract:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Abstract:
Over twenty years of civil war in predominantly Christian Southern Sudan has forced countless people from their homes. Transforming Displaced Women in Sudan examines the lives of women who have forged a new community in a shantytown on the outskirts of Khartoum, the largely Muslim, heavily Arabized capital in the north of the country. Sudanese-born anthropologist Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf delivers a rich ethnography of this squatter settlement based on personal interviews with displaced women and careful observation of the various strategies they adopt to reconstruct their lives and
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction - Through the Eyes of the Displaced; One - Dissent Historicized; Two - Becoming Displaced; Three - Gendered Rituals; A gallery of photographs appears following page 110.; Four - Negotiating Peace; Epilogue - "This Is My Country"; Appendix A - Primary Informants; Appendix B - Camps and Shantytowns in Greater Khartoum, Sudan; Appendix C - Profile of Women in Izzbba; Notes; References; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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