Sudanese Intellectuals in the Global Milieu

Capturing Cultural Capital

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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Sudanese Intellectuals in the Global Milieu: Capturing Cultural Capital propels Sudanese intellectuals into the global intellectual milieu and argues for their place in world intellectual history. The contributors posit that Sudan is currently in its most uncertain and perhaps most generative period, as the unrest, conflicts, and upheavals of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries threw Sudanese intellectuals and activists into identity, economic, environmental, religious, and existential crises. Despite these crises, the unrest has created a period of knowledge production and cultural production in Sudan. The contributors to the collection are Sudanese intellectuals who explore the history and evolution of knowledge production, thought, and cultural capital in Sudan.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-04-01
Mått160 x 227 x 31 mm
Vikt676 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor342
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
MedarbetareTim Niblock
ISBN9781793622761

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Section I: IntroductoryChapter 1: More than a Grain of Sand: Opening Outward—Sudanese Thought in a Globalized MilieuSondra HaleChapter 2: Capturing Cultural Capital: Where to Start, and Which Ideas Matter?Gada Kadoda Section II: Ghosts and Beacons Chapter 3: Visitations: Dialogue with the Ghost of Dr. John GarangFrancis Mading DengChapter 4: The Beacon: A Glimpse of Suad Ibrahim Ahmed’s Intellectual LifeFatima Babiker Mahmoud, with an Addendum by Mohamed Suliman and Azza MohamedSection III: Hybridities and AmbiguitiesChapter 5: The Invention of the Northern SudaneseAbdullahi Ali IbrahimChapter 6: The Rise and Decline of the Hybridity Thesis in the Intellectual Discourse on Identity: The Sudan ExampleMohamed AbusabibSection IV: The Production of IntellectualsChapter 7: Interrogating the Dilemma of Sudanese Academics: Producing Knowledge or Recycling IdeologiesAtta El-Battahani Chapter 8: The Pioneering Women’s and Gender Studies Intellectuals in Sudan:

Sudan’s decades of struggle to transition from its colonial/condominium situation under Britain and Egypt to a nationally integrated democratic state have been rocky. The people of Sudan have endured long periods of military dictatorship punctuated by short-lived periods of hard-won democracy. Recurrent conflicts and full-blown civil war were fought over issues of regional inequalities and religious and ethnic dominations, leading to the eventual secession of South Sudan and unresolved tension between military and civilian rule. Sudan’s struggles with identities, hybridities, ambiguities—African and Arab, Muslims of different sects, non-Muslim, and Islamist, North and South, riverain and regional, ethnically and linguistically diverse—together with the tensions of political Islam, capitalist, and socialist trends, have produced inspired intellectuals, whose thought has received global attention at times, though much has remained untold. In this volume, several contributors theorize the ways in which Sudan’s intellectuals and organic intellectuals, including theorists, political leaders, artists and musicians, women’s movement leaders, and voices from marginalized groups, have contributed to political efforts and cultural direction in their on-going efforts to find a free and stable life for the diverse people and cultures of Sudan and South Sudan. Others brilliantly recapture the heroes and martyrs of this history as individuals, using story-telling and memoir. The volume deepens our knowledge of Sudan’s intellectual discourse—on cultural heritage, identity, and society—in centuries-long history, in pivoting perspectives that include marginalized groups, and in spotlighting women’s leadership in past and current struggles, extending Hale’s and Kadoda’s previous works on gender and politics and on networks of knowledge production in particular.