Market Institutions in the Relation of Nomadic and Sedentary People of South Kordofan/Nuba mountains Region

Programme

This project examines the market institutions of South Kordofan/ Nuba Mountains after the achievement of the Peace Agreement ending the Civil War in the Sudan in 2005. The central focus is the dynamics and agencies that characterize the relationship of three separate, but closely related social fields: market institutions, state administration, and the local communities of sedentary and nomadic groups. The project traces both traders and traded goods, while at the same time paying attention to the social and administrative environments that they encounter at different levels of state structures and community organizations. Taking the local market as an intermediary space for multifaceted interactions, the project explores how various agencies of the three social fields (market, state, and local communities) affect each other. In doing so, it also examines the mutual influences between market institutions, state structures, and local social institutions of sedentary and nomadic groups. In addition, it investigates how the practices and attributions of being "nomadic", "sedentary", "traders" or even "state officials" are altered in this process of multi-dimensional interactions.

Publications

Prof. Dr. Richard Rottenburg

in preparation. Bewahrung des Lebens. Krieg, Erinnerung und Vitalität in den Nuba-Bergen (Sudan). Edition Trickster im Hammer Verlag (Monograph, 300 pages).

2009. Far-fetched Facts. A Parabel of Development Aid. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

1991. Ndemwareng. Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft in den Morobergen. München: Trickster.

2006. With Burkhard Schnepel and Shingo Shimada (editors). 2006. The making and unmaking of differences. Anthropological, sociological and philosophical perspectives. Bielefeld: Transcript.

2008. Nomadic-sedentary relations and failing state institutions in Darfur and Kordofan (Sudan). Orientwissenschaftliche Hefte 26.

2008. Übersetzung und ihre Dementierung. In Bruno Latours Kollektive. Kontroversen zur Entgrenzung des Sozialen, edited by Kneer, Georg, Marcus Schroer & Erhard Schüttpelz. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp.

2007. With Christoph Hubig: Technikkultur in Afrika. In Technik und Interkulturalität, edited by Hubig, Christoph & Hans Poser. Düsseldorf: VDI, 59-71.

2007. With Christoph Hubig: Trading zones. Eine zielführende Strategie des Konfliktmanagements im interkulturellen Transfer. In Technik und Interkulturalität, edited by Hubig, Christoph & Hans Poser. Düsseldorf: VDI, 221-226.

2006. Social constructivism and the enigma of strangeness. In The making and unmaking of differences. Anthropological, sociological and philosophical perspectives, edited by Rottenburg, Richard, Burkhard Schnepel and Shingo Shimada. Bielefeld: Transcript, 27-41.

2006. The figure of the third in the field. Folk. Journal of the Danish Ethnographic Society: 41-53.

Assistant Prof. Dr. Guma Kunda Komey

Ethnic Identity Politics and Boundary Making in Claiming Communal Land in the Nuba Mountains after the CPA'. In Elke Grawert (ed.), After the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in Sudan, 2005: Sign of Change? (London: James Currey, forthcoming).

'Religion in Conflict and Peace Building in Sudan: Experience in Interfaith Coexistence'. In Anne Kubai & Tarekegn Adebbo, (eds.), Striving in Faith: Christians and Muslims in Africa. (Life and Peace Institute, 2008). Co-author with Samson Wassara.

'Autochthonous identity: its territorial attachment and political expression in claiming communal land in the Nuba Mountains region, Sudan'. In: Roxana Kath & Anna-Katharina Rieger, (eds.), Raum, Landscape und Territorium. Halle, Halle University, SFB-Sammelband, (2008): 203 - 227.

'The autochthonous claim of land rights by the sedentary Nuba and its persistent contest by the nomadic Baggara of South Kordofan/Nuba Mountains, Sudan'. In: Richard Rottenburg, (ed.), Nomadic-sedentary relations and failing state institutions in Darfur and Kordofan, Sudan. Orientwissenschaftliche Hefte. Halle: University of Halle, (2008): 103 - 129.

'The denied land rights of the indigenous peoples and their endangered livelihood and survival: the case of the Nuba of the Sudan', Ethnic and Racial Studies, 31 (5): 991 - 1008.

'Dynamics of the marginalization process in Sudan: the Nuba Mountains case'. In Hassan A. Abdel Ati (ed.), The Sudan: challenges of peace and redressing marginalization (Khartoum: EDGE for consultancy & research. Khartoum. 2004: 54 - 87.

'Internally displaced population (IDPs) of the Sudan and the rights of citizenship'. Chapter two In: J. El-tayeb and H. Ati (eds.), Peace, Development and Democracy, National Civic Forum Proceedings. (Khartoum: Federich Ebert Foundation, Khartoum, 2002): 52 - 69.

'Religious tolerance and co-existence in the Sudan: a Christian view' (in Arabic). In: Journal of Peace and Development 1(3). Khartoum: University of Juba, Centre for Peace and Development Studies, 2001: 33 - 41.

Enrico Ille, M.A.

Historical narratives and territorial claims. The case of (Tira) Mandi. (in preparation).

Suq sumbuq - Geheime Märkte im sudanesischen Bürgerkrieg. (with Guma Kunda Komey). In: Breuer, Ingo et al. (eds.): Nomaden in unserer Welt. (in preparation).

Der Berg Šaybūn und das Gold. Historische Narrative und die Verortung von Ressourcen in den Nuba Mountains (Sudan). In: Kath, Roxana & Anna-Katharina Rieger (eds.): Raum - Landscape - Territorium. Zur Konstruktion physischer Räume als nomadische und sesshafte Lebensräume. Wiesbaden (Nomaden und Sesshafte; 11). (in print).

2007. Ethnische Strukturen. In: Bernhard Chiari (ed.): Wegweiser zur Geschichte. Sudan. Paderborn et.al.: Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt, 131-141.