The Borderlands of South Sudan Authority and Identity in Contemporary and Historical Perspectives

Moving beyond the current fixation on "state construction," the interdisciplinary work gathered here explores regulatory authority in South Sudan's borderlands from both contemporary and historical perspectives. Taken together, these studies show how emerging governance practices challenge the bounded categorizations of "state" and "non-state."

1. Introduction: Negotiating Borders, Defining South Sudan; Mareike Schomerus, Lotje de Vries and Christopher Vaughan 2. Too Much Water Under the Bridge: Internationalization of the Sudan – South Sudan Border and Local Demands for its Regulation; Øystein H. Rolandsen 3. Unclear Lines: State and Non-state Actors in Abyei; Joshua Craze 4. Pastoralists, Conflicts and Politics: Aspects of South Sudan's Kenyan Frontier; Immo Eulenberger 5. The Nuba Political Predicament in Sudan(s): Seeking Resources Beyond Borders; Guma Kunda Komey 6. Alternative Citizenship: The Nuer between Ethiopia and the Sudan; Dereje Feyissa 7. The Rizeigat-Malual Borderland during the Condominium: The Limits of Legibility; Christopher Vaughan 8. Pulling the Ropes: Convenient Indeterminacies and the Negotiation of Power at Kaya's Border Checkpoint; Lotje de Vries 9. State-making and Emerging Complexes of Power and Accumulation in the Southern Sudan-Kenyan Border Area: The Rise of a Thriving Cross-border Business Network; Anne Walraet 10. Labour and the Making of Central African Borders; Edward Thomas 11. Whatever happened to the 'safe havens'? Imposing State Boundaries between the Sudanese Plains and the Ethiopian Highlands; Wendy James

Wendy James, Oxford University, UK Eddie Thomas, The Rift Valley Institute, UK Joshua Craze, University of California Los Angeles, USA Guma Kunda Komey, Juba University, South Sudan Øystein H. Rolandsen, Peace Research Institute Oslo, Norway Dereje Feyissa, Max Planck Institute, Germany Immo Eulenberger, Max Planck Institute, Germany Anne Walraet, University of Ghent, Belgium.