Gender, Race, and Sudan's Exile Politics: Do we all Belong to This Country? (en Inglés)
Reseña del libro "Gender, Race, and Sudan's Exile Politics: Do we all Belong to This Country? (en Inglés)"
Gender, Race, and Sudan s Exile Politics examines the gendered and racialized discourses and practices of the Sudanese opposition in exile through the opposition movements of the 1990s and early 2000s. The book discusses the history within which these discourses evolved. The book interrogates the relationship between women s organizations and activisms in exile on one hand, and nationalist, transformative, and other political movements and processes on the other. The book further discuses transnational coalition building across difference, including racial difference, between women s organization seeking to transform gender relations in Sudan and South Sudan. The military coup that brought the National Islamic Front (NIF) now National Congress Party (NCP) to power in 1989 not only forced most political parties, trade unions, and activists in Sudan into either exile politics or underground activism; it also urged Sudan s political forces and activists to rethink the meaning of belonging and of the Old Sudan. In the mid-1990s, this involved a rethinking of the relationship between religion and politics, acknowledging Sudan s diversity, acknowledging the need to restructure Sudan s economy and politics to ensure equal access and participation for the historically marginalized, and committing to self-determination for the people of South Sudan. The concept of the New Sudan, which the late Dr. John Garang coined in 1983, captured this thinking. The book explores possibilities for integrating a concern with gender into opposition and New Sudan thinking and politics. Based on research in Egypt, Kenya, the United Kingdom, Sudan and South Sudan between 1998 and 2014, this book, which discusses the relationship between theory and praxis, will appeal to policy-makers, activists, and academics interested in Sudan and South Sudan, and in gender and women s studies and rights in both countries and beyond."
