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The Resource Transforming displaced women in Sudan : politics and the body in a squatter settlement, Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf

Transforming displaced women in Sudan : politics and the body in a squatter settlement, Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf

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Over twenty years of civil war in predominantly Christian Southern Sudan has forced countless people from their homes. Transforming Displaced Women in Sudan examines the lives of women who have forged a new community in a shantytown on the outskirts of Khartoum, the largely Muslim, heavily Arabized capital in the north of the country. Sudanese-born anthropologist Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf delivers a rich ethnography of this squatter settlement based on personal interviews with displaced women and careful observation of the various strategies they adopt to reconstruct their lives and
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
1 online resource (xii, 183 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates)
Contents
  • Introduction: through the eyes of the displaced
  • Dissent historicized
  • Becoming displaced
  • Gendered rituals
  • Negotiating peace
  • Epilogue: "this is my country"
  • Appendix A: primary informants
  • Appendix B: camps and shantytowns in Greater Khartoum, Sudan
  • Appendix C: profile of women in Izzbba
Isbn
9786612239342
Instance
Label
Transforming displaced women in Sudan : politics and the body in a squatter settlement
Title
Transforming displaced women in Sudan
Title remainder
politics and the body in a squatter settlement
Statement of responsibility
Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf
Creator
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
Over twenty years of civil war in predominantly Christian Southern Sudan has forced countless people from their homes. Transforming Displaced Women in Sudan examines the lives of women who have forged a new community in a shantytown on the outskirts of Khartoum, the largely Muslim, heavily Arabized capital in the north of the country. Sudanese-born anthropologist Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf delivers a rich ethnography of this squatter settlement based on personal interviews with displaced women and careful observation of the various strategies they adopt to reconstruct their lives and
Action
digitized
Cataloging source
CDX
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Abusharaf, Rogaia Mustafa
Dewey number
305.4/896914
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • plates
Index
index present
LC call number
HD7287.96.S732
LC item number
K437 2009eb
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
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  • Squatter settlements
  • Squatters
  • Internally displaced persons
  • Women
  • Khartoum (Sudan)
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE
  • Internally displaced persons
  • Social conditions
  • Squatter settlements
  • Squatters
  • Women
  • Sudan
  • Displaced Person
  • Sozialanthropologie
  • Squattersiedlung
  • Khartum
  • Sudan
  • Frau
Label
Transforming displaced women in Sudan : politics and the body in a squatter settlement, Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf
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Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
other
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Introduction: through the eyes of the displaced -- Dissent historicized -- Becoming displaced -- Gendered rituals -- Negotiating peace -- Epilogue: "this is my country" -- Appendix A: primary informants -- Appendix B: camps and shantytowns in Greater Khartoum, Sudan -- Appendix C: profile of women in Izzbba
Control code
432428871
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (xii, 183 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates)
Form of item
online
Isbn
9786612239342
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other control number
  • 9786612239342
  • 2962507
Other physical details
illustrations
http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
223934
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction.
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)432428871
System details
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Label
Transforming displaced women in Sudan : politics and the body in a squatter settlement, Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
other
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Introduction: through the eyes of the displaced -- Dissent historicized -- Becoming displaced -- Gendered rituals -- Negotiating peace -- Epilogue: "this is my country" -- Appendix A: primary informants -- Appendix B: camps and shantytowns in Greater Khartoum, Sudan -- Appendix C: profile of women in Izzbba
Control code
432428871
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (xii, 183 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates)
Form of item
online
Isbn
9786612239342
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other control number
  • 9786612239342
  • 2962507
Other physical details
illustrations
http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
223934
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction.
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)432428871
System details
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

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