Introduction: the making of chiefship, state and community in South
Sudan - PART I: From zariba to merkaz: the creation of the nodal
state frontier, c. 1840-1920
Frontier societies and the political economy of knowledge in the
nineteenth century
Colonial frontiers and the emergence of government chiefs, c.
1900-20 - PART II: From makama to mejlis: the making of chiefship
and the local state, 1920s-50s
Constituting the urban frontier: chiefship and the colonial labour
economy, 1920s-40s
Claiming rights and guarantees: chiefs' courts and state justice,
c. 1900-56
Containing the frontier: the tensions of territorial chiefdoms,
1930s-50s
Uncertainty on the urban frontier: chiefs and the politics of
Sudanese independence, 1946-58 - PART III: From malakiya to medina:
the fluctuating expansion of the urban frontier, c. 1956-2010
Trading knowledge: chiefship, local elites and the urban frontier,
c. 1956-2010
Regulating depredation: chiefs and the military, 1963-2005
Reprising 'tradition': the mutual production of community and state
in the twenty-first century
Knowing the system: judicial pluralism and discursive legalism in
the interim period, 2005-10
Conclusion
Cherry Leonardi is Associate Professor in African History at Durham University in the UK. She works on the history of South Sudan and northern Uganda, with particular interests in local-level processes of state formation and the construction of authority, communities, and boundaries. She is the author of Dealing with Government in South Sudan: Histories of Chiefship, Community and State (James Currey, 2013) and co-author of Dividing Communities in South Sudan and Northern Uganda: Boundary Disputes and Land Governance (Rift Valley Institute, 2016). Her current research is exploring histories of conservation, conflict, and nature, with a Carson Fellowship at the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich in 2020.
A detailed and rich account of the historical development of
chiefship and of the state in southern Sudan... challenges lazy
conceptions that represent South Sudan as lacking a political
culture and history...particularly relevant to the current
period.
*AFRICA AT LSE BLOG*
This highly readable and engaging book offers new insights into
southern Sudanese experiences.
*COMMONWEALTH AND COMPARATIVE POLITICS*
[A] masterful book.
*GOVERNANCE IN AFRICA*
This highly informed and informative volume is a great addition to
the literature on state-society relations in South Sudan. ...
Likely to become a measuring stick for future anthropological works
on South and should also be of interest to scholars of
state-society relations and traditional authorities in other parts
of Africa.
*JOURNAL OF MODERN AFRICAN STUDIES*
The first thorough study that has been done on the institution of
chiefships in South Sudan. [Leonardi] has laid a firm foundation
for the further study of this topic by other scholars. ... This
book is a valuable resource for graduate students, academics,
researchers, policy makers, civil societies, and non-governmental
organizations (NGOs).
*INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORICAL STUDIES*
[Employs] a well-considered multi-disciplinary approach in tackling
this lively issue and, as such, it would be of interest to students
and scholars of African studies and particularly to those in the
fields of anthropology, political science, history, law and
economics.
*SUDAN STUDIES*
Leonardi's book will for a long time be central to any deeper
understanding of political structures in the newest African
country. . . . This is an important book which should be read
widely among all those concerned with African history and politics,
not just Sudan specialists.
*AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW*
[Leonardi] combines an impressive mastery of the scholarship on
South Sudan and Sudan, with very thorough archival research and
fieldwork. At the same time, she brings to bear wide reading in
related literatures, to connect the issues that she documents with
broader scholarly debates. ... a quite original contribution to the
study of politics and the state in modern Africa.
*Professor Charles Ambler, University of Texas at El Paso*
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