1st Edition
South Sudanese Displacement and State-Making “The previous war was better than this one”
Part 1: War and Peace in the Making of South Sudan 1.1. South Sudan’s 2013-2030 Civil War and Displacement: And Introduction 1.2. The ‘Trouble’ of Boundaries, Border/lands and People’s Fate 1.3. Getting In: Research Sites Part 2: The Idea of South Sudan in the Minds of Displaced Citizens 2.1. The Militarised and Politicised Context of Settlements 2.2. “We Were Not Prepared”: Fighting for VS. Governing the State 2.3. “The Previous War was Better Than This One”: Violence, Modernity and Change 2.4. Life in the Ugandan Settlements Part 3: Living Between Two Worlds: Push and Pull Factors 3.1. The View from the Border 3.2. Rethinking Labels and Their Consequences 3.3. Who Moves: Hidden Determinations of Mobility and Immobility 3.4. Following the Story in an Unpredictable Environment 3.5. Reconfiguring Gender Roles in Exile 4.0. Interlude Part 4: Displacement, Cross-Border Mobility and State-Making 4.1. The Economy of Movement 4.2. Shifting Physical and Imaginary Borders 4.3. Negotiating Access Between Legality and Illegality, Formality and Informality 4.4. Interlude: Between Borders 4.5. Displacement Re-Shaping the Political Economy of the Central State Part 5: Conclusion: Paradoxes of Displacement and State-Making 5.1. Paradoxes of Displacement and State-Making 5.2. A Cross-Border Framework: Multi-Site Living as a Response to Displacement 5.3. Arua as a City of Refuge 5.4. Bidibidi Settlement into a City-Like Structure 5.5. In What Ways Displacement Helps Us Understand Modern State-Making Processes?
Biography
Cate Inverso is a researcher and consultant, who completed her PhD at SOAS University of London, UK. She has also worked intermittently in several humanitarian contexts over the past twenty years.
