Lifeworlds in Crisis: Making Refugees in the Chad-Sudan Borderlands - Paperback
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Lifeworlds in Crisis: Making Refugees in the Chad-Sudan Borderlands - Paperback
$51.21
by Andrea Behrends (Author)
The continuing Darfur War has caused mass displacement since 2003, with hundreds of thousands driven from their homes and many forced into refugee camps in western Sudan and neighboring Chad. Building on twenty years of research in the region, Andrea Behrends tracks the repercussions of this conflict--sometimes referred to as the 'first genocide of the twenty-first century'--for those living through it: those who stayed put, those who fled from rural areas to towns, those who moved to refugee camps, and those who fought. Telling the story of everyday survival on the Chad-Sudan border, an area central to state politics in the larger region, her account sheds light on how people create belonging, exchange knowledge, develop new practices and build futures in the face of extreme uncertainty.
Departing from the focus on large-scale humanitarian and military interventions associated with 'states of emergency', Behrends highlights the forms of cooperation and mutual knowledge production that emerge on the ground in these lifeworlds in crisis. She combines meticulous ethnographic description with theoretically grounded arguments to offer a pioneering study of how individuals have anticipated, survived and adapted to recurring crises and war in one of the world's most economically marginalized regions.Author Biography
Andrea Behrends is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Leipzig. Focusing on African issues, she has previously taught at universities in Bayreuth, Berlin, Vienna, Halle (Saale) and Hamburg. Alongside colleagues from Chad, she continues to work on human categorization and belonging, displacement and aid, resource extraction, datafication and activism.
Number of Pages: 392
Dimensions: 1.4 x 8.2 x 5.2 IN
Publication Date: May 01, 2024
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