The Borderlands of South Sudan

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction: Negotiating Borders, Defining South Sudan

   • Mareike Schomerus, Lotje de Vries, Christopher Vaughan

   Pages 1-22

3. Too Much Water under the Bridge: Internationalization of the Sudan—South Sudan Border and Local Demands for Its Regulation

   • Øystein H. Rolandsen

   Pages 23-43

4. Unclear Lines: State and Non-State Actors in Abyei

   • Joshua Craze

   Pages 45-66

5. Pastoralists, Conflicts, and Politics: Aspects of South Sudan’s Kenyan Frontier

   • Immo Eulenberger

   Pages 67-88

6. The Nuba Political Predicament in Sudan(s): Seeking Resources beyond Borders

   • Guma Kunda Komey

   Pages 89-107

7. Alternative Citizenship: The Nuer between Ethiopia and the Sudan

   • Dereje Feyissa

   Pages 109-131

8. The Rizeigat—Malual Borderland during the Condominium: The Limits of Legibility

   • Christopher Vaughan

   Pages 133-152

9. Pulling the Ropes: Convenient Indeterminacies and the Negotiation of Power at Kaya’s Border Checkpoint

   • Lotje de Vries

   Pages 153-172

10. State-Making and Emerging Complexes of Power and Accumulation in the Southern Sudan–Kenyan Border Area: The Rise of a Thriving Cross-Border Business Network

    • Anne Walraet

    Pages 173-192

11. Labor and the Making of Central African Borders

    • Edward Thomas

    Pages 193-211

12. Whatever Happened to the “Safe Havens”? Imposing State Boundaries between the Sudanese Plains and the Ethiopian Highlands

    • Wendy James

    Pages 213-233

13. Back Matter

    Pages 235-245

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Moving beyond the current fixation on "state construction," the interdisciplinary work gathered here explores regulatory authority in South Sudan's borderlands from both contemporary and historical perspectives. Taken together, these studies show how emerging governance practices challenge the bounded categorizations of "state" and "non-state."

• Africa
• conflict
• governance
• Sudan
• work

to come

Wendy James, Oxford University, UK Eddie Thomas, The Rift Valley Institute, UK Joshua Craze, University of California Los Angeles, USA Guma Kunda Komey, Juba University, South Sudan Øystein H. Rolandsen, Peace Research Institute Oslo, Norway Dereje Feyissa, Max Planck Institute, Germany Immo Eulenberger, Max Planck Institute, Germany Anne Walraet, University of Ghent, Belgium.

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