The Intellectual Origins of Sudan’s “Decades of Solitude,” 1989–2019

Young, Alden

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“…Many have pursued a maximalist agenda of all good things at the same time: peace in the peripheries; accountability for war crimes and corruption; a secular constitution; strengthening the state; reforming the political economy; and so forth. In pursuing most of these, SAF was identified as an implacable opponent, because its preferences are still those of Bashir and his rent-seeking ‘keizan’ that produced Sudan's ‘years of solitude’ between 1989 and 2019 (Young 2021). Dominated by leftist appointees, institutions such as the Tamkeen Removal Committee used sweeping powers of arrest and expropriation and suspended due process to recover stolen assets from networks formerly aligned with Al-Ingaz – a process that became increasingly polarising as the fruits of exchange rate reform were slow to materialise, subsidy withdrawals hurt the middle classes and successive Ministers of Finance failed to wrest control (or even comprehensively chart the universe) of army-owned companies 23 .…”

Section: The Perils and Opportunities Of The December Revolutionmentioning

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Surviving revolution and democratisation: the Sudan armed forces, state fragility and security competition

Verhoeven

2023

J. Mod. Afr. Stud.

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Sudan has for decades been one of Africa's most fragmented polities. Yet arguably the single most consequential actor in its recent history is among the least well studied: the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF). For most of post-independence statehood, Khartoum has been ruled by generals. This article places SAF in a longitudinal context of the expansion and contraction of state power and the functions of the coercive apparatus in these processes. It situates SAF in institutional logics, driven by historically contingent ideas about the nature of the polity, the role of the army within it and its likely partners and enemies. Doing so historicises the strategic calculus of SAF during the 2018–2019 December Revolution which mobilised millions but ended with a new coup in October 2021. I underscore how institutionalised rivalry between SAF and other security services has moulded patterns of regime change and consolidation: from Ja'afar Nimeiri and Omar Al-Bashir to Abdelfatah Al-Burhan today, anxieties over security competition and state fragility shape SAF's willingness to break with regimes it once dominated and its subsequent subversion of revolutionary change and democratisation.

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Section: The Perils and Opportunities Of The December Revolutionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Surviving revolution and democratisation: the Sudan armed forces, state fragility and security competition

Verhoeven

2023

J. Mod. Afr. Stud.

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“…Migrants' remittances fueled a new informal Islamic banking system in the 1980s, which offered loans and money transfers to small‐scale farmers and seasonal agrarian workers (Osman 1999). This introduced finance capitalism into Sudanese rural life (Medani 2021; Young 2021). Today, Islamic banking has made mobile banking accessible across rural Sudan; several of my interlocutors send and receive money in Kordofan with a click on their phones.…”

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“Life is a Gamble”

Reumert¹

2023

Cult. Anthropol.

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This article foregrounds the returns of migration by following young migrant workers to Lebanon and back to subsistence farming communities in western Sudan during a time of revolution and economic crisis in both countries. Their labor and the returns of it connect these two seemingly distinct zones of labor and production in a transregional economy, linking East Africa to the Middle East. In this cross-border economy, the search for work through mobility has become a point of value extraction by brokers and border guards, and at the same time a practice of gendered self-validation for male migrants. In Sudan, migrants and brokers both refer to this practice as a gamble, mughamara. Proposing mughamara as an ethnographic concept of mobility, I show how young migrants use this term to validate themselves through migration. Comparing their experiences to Sudanese migrants who worked in Lebanon decades before them, I show how the youth’s presentation of mobility as a necessary gamble with life reveals an underlying generational experience of crisis and the foreclosure of class mobility. In a political and socioeconomic context where migrant workers often feel devalued in and by labor, mobility is presented as their only way forward—as well as their ticket home.

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Sovereignty and imperialism: International business, finance and the position of Sudan in the British empire

Mollan,

Corker

2023

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The Intellectual Origins of Sudan’s “Decades of Solitude,” 1989–2019

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Surviving revolution and democratisation: the Sudan armed forces, state fragility and security competition

Surviving revolution and democratisation: the Sudan armed forces, state fragility and security competition

“Life is a Gamble”

Sovereignty and imperialism: International business, finance and the position of Sudan in the British empire

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