The Attempt to Stay

Dam Building, Displacement, and Resistance in the Nile Valley, Sudan

Valerie Hänsch (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

366 Seiten

2024
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-623-9 (ISBN)

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The construction of the Merowe Dam along the Nile in northern Sudan flooded local villages and forced thousands of inhabitants to flee to higher ground. Despite the radical social and environmental transformations and an uncertain future, the Manasir have tried to continue their peasant way of life and resisted relocating to state-run resettlement schemes. Rather than focusing on migration and resettlement, the author follows the people’s attempts to preserve their homeland and have meaningful lives along the emerging reservoir. The book grapples with the fundamental question of how to re-establish life in a world that is falling apart.

Valerie Hänsch is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Anthropological Museum in Berlin, Germany. As a visual anthropologist, she has produced several collaborative ethnographic films. Her film “Sifinja – The Iron Bride” (2009) has been awarded several prizes. She is co-editor of the special journal issue Temporalities of Waiting in Africa (Critical African Studies, 2020).

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Note on the Text

Abbreviations

Chronology

General Maps

Introduction

Chapter 1. Interwoven Spaces and Perspectives

Chapter 2. Staying in the Homeland: From a Vision to Political Mobilization

Chapter 3. Looming Destruction and Displacement

Chapter 4. Makeshift Arrangements

Chapter 5. Makeshift Lives

Chapter 6. The Re-Formation of Life: Possibilities and Processes

Conclusion

Postscript

Glossary

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	10.07.2024
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-80539-623-4 / 1805396234
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-623-9 / 9781805396239
Zustand	Neuware