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 artis…
Examines the commodification of land rights and the effect of international licences for resource extraction on the pastoral communities of the two Sudans. Pastoral societies are increasingly shaped by external forces and dynamics. While celebrations in Juba marked the birth of …
"When asked in 2016 if he would step down as President of South Sudan, Salva Kiir replied 'my exit could spark genocide.' Kiir's words exemplify how fear and the threat of mass violence have become central to the politics of South Sudan. As South Sudanese analyst Daniel Akech Th…
When asked in 2016 if he would step down as President of South Sudan, Salva Kiir replied 'my exit could spark genocide.' Kiir's words exemplify how fear and the threat of mass violence have become central to the politics of South Sudan. As South Sudanese analyst Daniel Akech Thi…
When asked in 2016 if he would step down as President of South Sudan, Salva Kiir replied 'my exit could spark genocide.' Kiir's words exemplify how fear and the threat of mass violence have become central to the politics of South Sudan. As South Sudanese analyst Daniel Akech Thi…
"When asked in 2016 if he would step down as President of South Sudan, Salva Kiir replied 'my exit could spark genocide.' Kiir's words exemplify how fear and the threat of mass violence have become central to the politics of South Sudan. As South Sudanese analyst Daniel Akech Th…
When asked in 2016 if he would step down as President of South Sudan, Salva Kiir replied 'my exit could spark genocide.' Kiir's words exemplify how fear and the threat of mass violence have become central to the politics of South Sudan. As South Sudanese analyst Daniel Akech Thi…
"When asked in 2016 if he would step down as President of South Sudan, Salva Kiir replied 'my exit could spark genocide.' Kiir's words exemplify how fear and the threat of mass violence have become central to the politics of South Sudan. As South Sudanese analyst Daniel Akech Th…
Indigenous African communities have knowledge and leadership systems as rich and complex as the continent’s history. However, the literature is often polemical, generalizes Africa, or lacks specificity in particular contexts. Indigenous African systems were sophisticated and pre…
This study investigates the connection between borders, society and environment in the borderlands between Sudan and South Sudan and attempts to expand our understanding of the process of border-making and its effects on the local population and on the spatial dynamics.
For my thesis, I explore how South Sudanese refugees in central Iowa imagine a utopic South Sudan amidst contemporary inter-ethnic tensions emanating from their recently independent country. In central Iowa and in particular Des Moines, South Sudanese refugees subtly reproduce t…
Access to clean water is essential for the health of all populations, yet some developing nations still lack sufficient supply. Inadequate supply of clean water results in consumption of contaminated sources, which in turn can cause or exacerbate existing disease. Old Fangak, So…
The first missionaries arrived in southern Sudan around the middle of the nineteenth century, bringing with them a Western model of church. That same model of church is evident all across southern Sudan today. While contextualization has occurred in parts, there is no fully cont…
South Sudan attained self-governing status in 2010, following a Comprehensive Peace Agreement signed in 2005 that ended decades of war. The need to understand the values and motivations that gird the current legislators of South Sudan referred to by the UN as the newest nation i…
Prevailing research pegs health status to a multitude of explanations, with many countries sharing almost similar experiences, depending on their development trajectory. There is consensus that fragility begets substandard health outcomes. This suggests that settings that are em…
This study explores the extent and depth of moral obligations in international relations, and how our collective understanding of these obligations has changed in the post-Cold War era. The genocides in Rwanda (1994) and Srebrenica (1995) raised questions about the moral legitim…
This dissertation delineates a political economy of refugee return migration to South Sudan by examining refugees' shifting practices of production, social reproduction and exchange, their spatialization and their intersection with various axes of difference. My work builds on t…