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.
Section I: Introductory
Chapter 1: More than a Grain of Sand: Opening OutwardSudanese Thought in a
Globalized Milieu
Sondra Hale
Chapter 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 Garang
Francis Mading Deng
Chapter 4: The Beacon: A Glimpse of Suad Ibrahim Ahmeds Intellectual Life
Fatima Babiker Mahmoud, with an Addendum by Mohamed Suliman and Azza Mohamed
Section III: Hybridities and Ambiguities
Chapter 5: The Invention of the Northern Sudanese
Abdullahi Ali Ibrahim
Chapter 6: The Rise and Decline of the Hybridity Thesis in the Intellectual
Discourse on Identity: The Sudan Example
Mohamed Abusabib
Section IV: The Production of Intellectuals
Chapter 7: Interrogating the Dilemma of Sudanese Academics: Producing
Knowledge or Recycling Ideologies
Atta El-Battahani
Chapter 8: The Pioneering Womens and Gender Studies Intellectuals in Sudan:
Ahfad University for Women
Balghis Badri and Mai Izeldeen
Section V: Marginalized Intellectual Communities
Chapter 9: Peace-building as Thought and Practice in the Nuba Mountains
before 2011
Enrico Ille and Mariam Sharif
Chapter 10: Portrait of a Woman of Courage: Awadeya Koko, Organic
Intellectual
Mai Azzam and Sana Makawi
Chapter 11: Life as an Act of Resistance: On Politics and IdeasYouth
Movements in Sudan
Wini Omer
Section VI: Mahdists, Feminists, and Humanists
Chapter 12: Al-Sadiq Al-Mahdis Intellectualism: Searching the Iceberg
Rabah Al Sadig
Chapter 13: Transforming Lives: Fatima Babikers Feminist Trajectories
Amani El Jack
Chapter 14: Francis Mading Deng: Ideas for Bridging Boundaries, Managing
Diversity and Reconciling Differences
Daniel Jok Deng and Luka Biong D. Kuol
Gada Kadoda is founding president and current head of the Board of Directors of the Sudanese Knowledge Society.
Sondra Hale is professor emerita in anthropology and gender studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.
