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Power relations of development : the case of dam construction in the Nubian homeland, Sudan

Title

Power relations of development : the case of dam construction in the Nubian homeland, Sudan / Tamer M.A. Abd Elkreem.

Author

Abd Elkreem, Tamer M. A.

Publication

Berlin : LIT Verlag, [2018]
©2018

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Description

xx, 401 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Series Statement

Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung ; Band 88

Uniform Title

Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung ; Bd. 88.

Subject

Genre/Form

Case studies
History
Case studies.
Études de cas.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-394).

Contents

Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Acronyms -- Arabic Transliteration -- Abstract -- Situating The Book -- Introduction -- Main Objectives and Questions of the Research -- Short History of Kajbar Dam -- The Locally Accepted Version of Kajbar Dam Before 1989 -- The Locally Resisted Version of Kajbar Dam 1995-1999 -- The Violent Version of Kajbar After 2005 -- Organisation of the Book -- Notes on Methodology -- Conceptual Baseline -- Literature on Dams and Resettlement -- Developmentality : Technologies of Governing Development -- Development Discourse -- Conceptualising Power Relations : The Developmentality-Despotism Continuum -- Limited Attempts of Persuasion -- Gradual Move to Despotism : Sign of a Deteriorating Developmentality -- Economic Rationality behind the Struggle -- Cost-benefit Analysis -- Stakeholder Analysis -- Normalisation of Development Reductionism -- Developmentality Challenged by Cultural Complexity -- Resettlement or Unhoming? -- Resistance as Counter-Developmentality -- Situating Kajbar Within The Wider Sudanese-State Society Relation -- The Sudanese State From Below : The Existential Predicament of the State -- Introduction -- Islamist Political Culture : Leaders and Shūrā -- Village Political Structure : Dialectical Relation with the State -- Masculine Ideology : Conflict Provoking Common Ground -- Mosques beyond Rituals : Village Parliament -- Youth Leadership -- Local Islamist Leadership : Mosques as Tools for Religious Governmentality -- Local Islamists' Power Beyond Religious Preaching : Village Intersection with the State -- Interlocking Spaces : Between Islamists and Local Communities -- Theoretically Facilitating and Practically Curtailing the Implementation of Kajbar Dam -- The Agency of the Brokers : Competition within the NCP -- Agentive Usage of Passivity -- Sidelining Agentive Loyalists -- Shūrā's Dead End : Replacement by Security Measures in Kajbar -- Conclusion -- Kajbar Dam at Higher State Levels -- Introduction -- Illegitimate Mediation or Resistance within the State? : The Northern State Government's (NSG) Role -- Northern State Government Challenged from Within -- Kajbar Dam is too Vital to be Stopped by Local Resistance : The Right Wing Challenge -- Resistance within the State -- Dams Implementation Unit (DIU) : Despotic Modernist -- 'Temples of Modernity' and Pharaohs of Modernity -- DIU's High Modernist Worldview -- Political Economy of Dams -- Conclusion -- What Informs Nubian's Anti-Dam Resistance? -- Seeing Like Home : Kajbar Dam in Locals' Eco-Cosmologies -- Introduction : Why is Understanding Home Important? -- Nubian Perception of Nature beyond Commodification -- Cursed Land : (Without Greenery) -- Sick Nile : (Without Land) -- Illusionary Greenery (Without Water) -- Presence and Absence of Water (Jawa and Sama Respectively) -- Samaness of a Person away from Home : Ambivalence of 'Us' and 'Them' -- Sama of a Person within the Home (the Estranged Self) -- Politics of Home : Security and Territorial Rights -- Filtering Strangers : The Masīd Institution -- Village Citizenship -- Urban Life and Home -- Migration and Transformation of Home -- Mahas-Based Associations and First Version of Kajbar Dam -- Expelling Home : From Jawa to Sama -- Conflicting Interpretations and Prescriptions of Home's Samaness -- Conclusion -- Production of Anti-Dam Knowledge -- Introduction -- Phases of Resistance -- Literary and Artistic Reflections in Resistance Politics -- Nubian History with Dams as Narrated in Their Literary Heritage -- Lessons Learned and More Radicalised during Kajbar Struggle -- Social Profile of Artists : Cultural and Political Representation of the Community -- Non-literary Reflections -- Mobilisation-Oriented Knowledge Production -- Conclusion -- Towards Some Conclusions-Understanding The Complexities of The Kajbar Case -- Encountering Kajbar -- Introduction -- Confrontation Phase -- Gradual Building of Para-Sovereignty -- The Encounter of Two Uncompromising Mind-sets -- Violent Confrontations over Kajbar -- Techniques of Publicising the Struggle -- Repercussions of Violence over Kajbar -- De-escalation of Violence -- Disintegrating Resistance Network -- Conclusion -- The Socio-Political Foundation of The Kajbar Dam -- Introduction -- Management of Conflicting Visions over Kajbar -- Rethinking State-Society Relationship : As a Gap to be Filled Not Bridged -- Pushing the Boundaries of the Poststructuralist Anthropology of Development -- Revisiting the Concept of Resettlement -- References -- Appendixes.

ISBN

3643910088
9783643910080

LCCN

2019377316

OCLC

on1026726210
1026726210
SCSB-9457182

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library