Alice Franck - In-Betweenness in Greater Khartoum

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2021 Alice Franck, Barbara Casciarri and Idris Salim El-Hassan

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Names: Franck, Alice, 1960- editor. | Casciarri, Barbara, editor. | El Hassan, Idris Salim, editor.

Title: In-betweenness in greater Khartoum : spaces, temporalities and identities from separation to revolution / edited by Alice Franck, Barbara Casciarri, Idris Salim El-Hassan.

Other titles: Space and place ; v. 20.

Description: New York : Berghahn Books, 2021. | Series: Space and place; volume 20 | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020042394 (print) | LCCN 2020042395 (ebook) | ISBN 9781800730588 (hardback) | ISBN 9781800730595 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Khartoum (Sudan)--Social conditions. | Khartoum (Sudan)--Politics and government.

Classification: LCC DT159.7 .I525 2021 (print) | LCC DT159.7 (ebook) | DDC 962.62043--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020042394

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020042395

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

ISBN 978-1-80073-058-8 hardback

ISBN 978-1-80073-059-5 ebook

This book is the outcome of a collective research project initiated in 2015 in Khartoum surrounding in-between spaces and identity reconfigurations in Sudans capital after 2011. We first thank the AUF (Francophone University Agency) and the CEDEJ (Centre dtudes et de documentation conomiques et juridiques) for funding the two-year research programme Mtropolisation et espaces dentre deux: jeux dacteurs, dynamiques de pouvoir et reconfigurations identitaires dans lagglomration du Grand Khartoum/Metropolization and In-Between Spaces: Interactions, Power Dynamics and Identity Reconfigurations in the Greater Khartoum Conurbation and for making it possible to carry out most of the fieldwork inquiries, the results of which are presented in the following chapters. Although not every participant in the programme wrote a contribution for this volume, all were involved in the scientific exchanges that led to this book.

This collective project was mediated in Sudan by the Khartoum branch of CEDEJ, which has facilitated Franco-Sudanese publications and research programmes over the past twenty years. It has equally engaged in multiple collaborations with Sudanese academic institutions, including the University of Khartoum (UoK). We express our gratitude to CEDEJ for both its financial and institutional support, and for the fact that it offers a unique space for researchers and students from France and elsewhere to collaborate with their Sudanese counterparts in conducting an in-depth study of contemporary Sudan in the context of difficult circumstances informed by the hold of an authoritarian regime. More particularly, our gratitude goes to Jean-Nicolas Bach, who in succeeding Alice Franck as the coordinator of the CEDEJ in Khartoum agreed to continue the project that we had started by taking care to organize and host our exalted workshops. The atmosphere in the centre fostered informal exchanges that have enabled multiple scholars to jointly explore the multifaceted notion of in-betweenness by dismantling the boundaries between diverse disciplinary fields and that in turn have inspired this publication. Through interactive disciplinary diversity, the collection contributes to a more complex approach to the understanding of in-betweenness as a spatial, social and historicized notion. It underscores the boundaries and porosities between Sudanese identities and spaces and their reconfigurations in the context and time frame of the 2011 secession of South Sudan until the revolution (20182019). The contributions of both junior and senior researchers of different nationalities and hailing from diverse social science disciplines (geography, anthropology, development and gender studies...) reflect the inspiring work environment at CEDEJ. For having greatly contributed to this fruitful atmosphere, thanks to Azza Ahmed Abdel Aziz, Hind Mahmoud Yousif, Khalid al-Rashid, Clment Deshayes, Peter Miller and Alice Koumurian.