Joint Winner of the Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthropology 2014 Analyses the experiences of exile and return of Nuer women and men of all ages and how they negotiate and reshape gender identities and relations in the context of prolonged war and violence.Joint Winner of the Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthropology 2014 How and where did returning Nuer refugees make their'homes'in southern Sudan? How were gender relations and identity redefined as a result of war, displacement and return to post-war communities? And how were those displaced able to recreate a sense of home, community and nation? During the civil wars in southern Sudan (1983-2005) many of the displaced Sudanese, including many Nuer, were in refugee camps in Kenya and Ethiopia. In the aftermath of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, they repatriated to southern Sudan. Faced with finding long-lost relatives and local expectations of'proper behaviour', they often felt displaced again. This book follows the lives of a group of Nuer in the Greater Upper Nile region. The narratives of those displaced and those who stayed behind reveal the complexity of social change, in particular, the crucial yet relatively unconsidered transformation of gender and generational relations, and how this has impacted on state formation in what is now South Sudan. Katarzyna Grabska is a research fellow with the Department of Anthropology and Sociology of Development at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. She is co-editor (with Lyla Mehta), of Forced Displacement: Why Rights Matter? (Palgrave: 2008)

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Gender, home et identity : the nuer repatriation to south Sudan

Gender, Home and Identity: Nuer Repatriation to Southern Sudan

Grabska, Katarzyna

Boydell & Brewer, Limited

Eastern African studies (London, England), Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2014

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

Eastern Africa series, Oxford, 2014

Frontcover
Contents
List of Maps and Photographs
Preface
Acknowledgements
Glossary of Nuer Terms
Acronyms
1. Returnee Dilemmas: Dangerous Trousers and Threatening Mini-skirts
Gender and generational relations in flux
Gendered displacement: why does it matter?
Historical and feminist ethnography across places and spaces
Gender relations in displacement and emplacement
Nuer women and men’s gendered encounters with displacement, emplacement and ‘modernities’
Transforming gendered self through seasons
2. Jiom – Season of Fighting and Running: Conflict, Mobility, Gender
‘Which wars do you want me to talk about?’: narratives of wars
War costs: mass displacement and diverse mobility
Women and men: war and violence
The wind and the change
3. Mai – Season of Displacement: Becoming ‘Modern’ in Kakuma
‘Modernity’, global humanitarianism, gender and generations
Kakuma and arrival of a new custom: cieng mi pai ben
People who have awoken: gendered and generational identities
Contesting gender power, ideology and ‘our culture’
Aspirations and contradictions
4. Rwil: Season of ‘Returns’
Nyakuol and Kuok
Movement, place and gendered emplacement
Diasporic returns, place and ‘home’
We cannot be the same Nuer as our parents: the irreversibility of displacement, home and being in flux
5. Season of Settling-in: Land and Livelihoods
Nyakuol: becoming men
Imagined and lived ‘homes’ and return
Nyuuri piny: gendered settling-in
‘When women become men’: accessing livelihoods
Are women really becoming men?
6. Tot – Gendered Emplacement: Identities, Ideologies and Marriage
Kuem and Nyarial: suits, trousers, mini-skirts and learning to wear a tuac
Gender identities, ideologies and ‘self’ in flux: the experience of ‘homecoming’ and settling-in
Settling-in and marriage
Gendered emplacement: gender relations in-flux
Changing the landscapes of post-war communities
7. Returnees as Visitors and the Nuer Community: Where Do We Go From Here?
Dilemmas about social life in flux
Anthropology of disorder and social theory
‘Homemaking’ and implications for the study of return migration
Gendered displacement, emplacement and implications for theories of social change
Gender theories, displacement and implications for gender mainstreaming policies
Refugees and home in flux
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index

How and where did returning Nuer refugees make their homes in southern Sudan? How were gender relations and identity redefined as a result of war, displacement and return to post-war communities? And how were those displaced able to recreate a sense of home, community and nation? During the civil wars in southern Sudan (1983-2005) many of the displaced Sudanese, including many Nuer, were in refugee camps in Kenya and Ethiopia. In the aftermath of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, they repatriated to southern Sudan. Faced with finding long-lost relatives and local expectations of proper behaviour, they often felt displaced again. This book follows the lives of a group of Nuer in the Greater Upper Nile region. The narratives of those displaced and those who stayed behind reveal the complexity of social change, in particular, the crucial yet relatively unconsidered transformation of gender and generational relations, and how this has impacted on state formation in what is now South Sudan. - Verlagsangaben

4e de couv.: How and where did returning Nuer refugees make their 'homes' in southern Sudan? How were gender relations and identity redefined as a result of war, displacement and return to post-war communities? And how were those displaced able to recreate a sense of home, community and nation? During the civil wars in southern Sudan (1983-2005) many of the displaced Sudanese, including many Nuer, were in refugee camps in Kenya and Ethiopia. In the aftermath of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, they repatriated to southern Sudan. Faced with finding long-lost relatives and local expectations of 'proper behaviour', they often felt displaced again. This book follows the lives of a group of Nuer in the Greater Upper Nile region. The narratives of those displaced and those who stayed behind reveal the complexity of social change, in particular, the crucial yet relatively unconsidered transformation of gender and generational relations, and how this has impacted on state formation in what is now South Sudan

This Book Follows The Lives Of A Group Of Nuer In The Greater Upper Nile Region. The Narratives Of Those Displaced And Those Who Stayed Behind Reveal The Complexity Of Social Change And Show How This Has Impacted On State Formation In What Is Now South Sudan, And, In Particular, The Crucial Yet Relatively Unconsidered Transformation Fo Gender And Generational Relations.--back Cover. Returnee Dilemmas: Dangerous Trousers And Threatening Mini-skirts -- Jiom-season Of Fighting And Running: Conflict, Mobility, Gender -- Mai-season Of Displacement: Becoming 'modern' In Kakuma -- Rwil-season Of 'returns' -- Season Of Settling-in: Land And Livelihoods -- Tot-gendered Emplacement Identities, Ideologies And Marriage -- Returnees As Visitors And The Nuer Community: Where Do We Go From Here? Katarzyna Grabska. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

"This book follows the lives of a group of Nuer in the Greater Upper Nile region. The narratives of those displaced and those who stayed behind reveal the complexity of social change and show how this has impacted on state formation in what is now South Sudan, and, in particular, the crucial yet relatively unconsidered transformation of gender and generational relations."--Back cover

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