Beyond Creole Nationalism? Language Policies, Education and the Challenge of State Building in Post-conflict Southern Sudan

Kevlihan, Robert

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“…See Kevlihan (2013), particularly the introduction, for further details. 14 Conversations focused instead on the question of preferred language of instruction in adult literacy classes, a topic respondents were much more willing to discuss; for further discussion, see Kevlihan (2007Kevlihan ( , 2009. 15 See Kevlihan (2013) for an extended discussion of this topic, which goes beyond health services.…”

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Providing health services during a civil war: the experience of a garrison town in South Sudan

Kevlihan

2013

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The impact of conflict, particularly conflict arising during civil wars, on the provision of healthcare is a subject that has not been widely considered in conflict-related research. Combatants often target health services to weaken or to defeat the enemy, while attempts to maintain or improve health systems also can comprise part of counter-insurgency 'hearts-and-minds' strategies. This paper describes the dynamics associated with the provision of health services in Malakal, an important garrison town in South Sudan, during the second Sudanese civil war (1983-2005). Drawing on the concepts of opportunity hoarding and exploitation, it explores the social and political dynamics of service provision in and around the town during the war. These concepts provide a useful lens with which to understand better how health services are affected by conflict, while the empirical case study presented in the paper illustrates dynamics that may be repeated in other contexts. The concepts and case study set out in this paper should prove useful to healthcare providers working in conflict zones, including humanitarian aid agencies and their employees, increasing their understanding of the social and political dynamics that they are likely to face during future conflict-related complex emergencies.

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Providing health services during a civil war: the experience of a garrison town in South Sudan

Kevlihan

2013

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“…Shari'a law was suspended in the South in 2005 and English was reintroduced as the medium of instruction and administration (Kevlihan 2007). The initial stages of economic reconstruction were undertaken, with the exploitation of the natural resources of the region, notably oil (Yongo-Bure 2007).…”

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Secession and South Sudan: an African precedent for the future?

Christopher

2011

South African Geographical Journal

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The secession of South Sudan marks a significant milestone in the political evolution of the African continent. The new state has no separate colonial heritage, and hence no recognised boundary, and has been formed as the result of a struggle for independence waged against the government of an independent state. International law on the subject of secession has been highly ambiguous and despite vigorous debate since the early 1990s, little progress has been made for the guidance of separatist movements or the international community in the resolution of such conflicts. The basic 'just-cause' motive for secession and an agreed constitutional means of attaining it were effective in the case of South Sudan, but only after a long period of civil war, which eventually reached stalemate. The inter-governmental cooperation necessary to effect the process of partition may carry over after independence, providing a better future for all in two states than had been possible in a single entity.

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“…Some have explored the correlation between power and national construction (Akbarzadeh 1999;Cummings 2002; Isaacs 2011, 2015; Peyrouse 2012b; 6 Beachain, Sheridan, and Stan 2012; Isaacs and With more 2013), the way this power is used and reinforced by symbols (Cummings 2002(Cummings ,2009(Cummings ,2013Denison 2009;6 Beachain 2011;Matveeva 2009), and, more recently, the role of neo-patrimonialism in a number of interesting cases in Central Asia (Kunysz 2012;Laruelle 2012a;Isaacs 2014). Another recent tendency has been to explore the competition between formal, informal, and even insurgent actors (Kevlihan 2007(Kevlihan , 2013a(Kevlihan , 2013bPolese and Kevlihan 2015) that have affected the way political structures and policies in the region have taken shape (Isaacs 2010;Dagiev 2014). All these approaches have in common a preoccupation with the nation-building project at the institutional and elite level and the way this is done by official laws and recommendations that, in tum, feed an official state narrative on national identity and nation-building.…”

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A tale of two presidents: personality cult and symbolic nation-building in Turkmenistan

Polese

Horák

2015

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This article proposes a comparison of the attitudes of the first and second presidents of Turkmenistan to discuss possible overlap between personality cult, as it has been initiated and developed by the two presidents after independence, and nation-building narratives in the country. Nation-building in post-Soviet spaces has been studied comprehensively, but this paper is distinguished by two interpretative frameworks. First, this article is possibly the first comparison of personality cult as it has been constructed by the two Turkmen presidents since 1991. Second, it looks at some specific aspects of the personality cult as possible markers of a Turkmen national identity that becomes, by force of this, de-ethnicized. We suggest that a number of idiosyncratic aspects of the personality cult in Turkmenistan contribute to construct an official nation-building narrative so concentrated on the figure of the president as to minimize the ethnic features of nation-building measures that scholars have noticed in a wide range of cases in the post-socialist region.

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Beyond Creole Nationalism? Language Policies, Education and the Challenge of State Building in Post-conflict Southern Sudan

Cited by 9 publications

References 18 publications

Providing health services during a civil war: the experience of a garrison town in South Sudan

Providing health services during a civil war: the experience of a garrison town in South Sudan

Secession and South Sudan: an African precedent for the future?

A tale of two presidents: personality cult and symbolic nation-building in Turkmenistan

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