This book provides an account of the third, last and longest civil revolt of independent Sudan. The December revolution was a continuing process that survived the military coup of 25 October 2021 and remained ongoing after the eruption of the war in April 2023. Based on original fieldwork data and taking an interdisciplinary approach drawing from anthropology, geography, history, politics, law and linguistics, this book provides a picture of everyday life during the December revolution and the plurality of its actors. It stresses the crucial role of inequalities and injustices both as sparks for the social protest movement and the principal demand for building a “New Sudan”.
1. Introduction: The Revolution continues (At-thawra mustamirra).-
2.
Sudans Three Post-uprising Transitional Periods: Between Centre and
Periphery, Revolution and War.-
3. Divide and Rule: the Islamists and
Inequality in Sudan.- Part I. This land is ours . The
Reappropriation of Spaces and Livelihoods.-
4. Justice and the Right to the
City in the Revolutionary Context of Khartoum: Reclaiming Public Spaces
through the Post-revolutionary Anti-corruption Committee.-
5. Back to the
Future. The Negotiations for the Relaunch of Jezira Irrigated Scheme after
Revolution.-
6. Common places between Memory and Promise in a Popular
Neighbourhood of Revolutionary Khartoum (Dyum Ash-Shargiya).- Part II. Our
unity is in our diversity . The Struggle against Hierarchical
Differences.-
7. A Revolution from the urban peripheries: The negarz gangs in
Khartoum.- 8. Looking from the Margins: Exploring Aspects of Womens
Political Participation in Rural Jezira during December Revolution.-
9.
Sudanese Pastoralists Marginalisation: the Unspeakable Spectre Haunting
December Revolution?.- 10. Beyond Ethnicity and Religion: Colonial and
Post-colonial Legacy of Capitalist Expansion in Eastern Sudan during
Revolution and Counter-Revolution.- Part III. We will build it . New
Subjectivities in a Process for Future Reshaping.-
11. The Revolution's
Street Art and Its Actors amid Depoliticization, Orientalism and
Commodification.-
12. Falling in Love and Getting Married During December
Revolution. Shaking Historical Power of Gender Relations and Patriarchal
Family.-
13. Crafting Archives of an Unfinished Revolution.- 14. Freedom,
Peace and Justice: the Biography of a Slogan and the Agency of Linguistic
Resources in December Revolution.
Barbara Casciarri is Professor of Anthropology at Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint Denis, France.
Alice Franck is Associate Professor of Geography at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France.
Mohamed A.G. Bakhit is Associate Professor of Sociology and Social Anthropology at University of Khartoum, Sudan and Postdoctoral fellow at the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany.
