Darfur allegory / Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf.
"Darfur Allegory is a dispatch from the humanitarian crisis that explains the historical and ethnographic background to competing narratives that have informed international responses. At the heart of the book is Sudanese anthropologist Rogaia Abusharaf's critique of the pseudoscientific notions of...
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Language: | English |
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Chicago, IL :
The University of Chicago Press,
[2021]
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Physical Description: | 218 pages ; 23 cm |
Format: | Book |
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"Darfur Allegory is a dispatch from the humanitarian crisis that explains the historical and ethnographic background to competing narratives that have informed international responses. At the heart of the book is Sudanese anthropologist Rogaia Abusharaf's critique of the pseudoscientific notions of race and ethnicity that posit divisions between "Arab" northerners and "African" southerners. Elaborated in colonial times and enshrined in policy after, such binary categories have been adopted by the media to explain the civil war. The narratives that circulate internationally are thus highly fraught and cover over, to counterproductive effect, forms of Darfurian activism that have emerged in the conflict's wake. Darfur Allegory marries the analytical precision of a committed anthropologist with an insider's view of Sudanese politics at home and in the diaspora, laying bare the power of words to heal or perpetuate civil conflict"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Call Number: | DT159.6.D27 A32 2021 |
Bibliography Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780226761695 022676169X 9780226761725 022676172X |