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Beyond The Ideology of ‘Civil War’: The Global-Historical Constitution of Political Violence in Sudan

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It is commonplace to characterise political violence and war in Africa as ‘internal’, encapsulated in the apparently neutral term ‘civil war’. As such, accounts of political violence tend to focus narrowly on the combatants or insurrectionary forces, failing to recognize or address the extent to which political violence is historically and globally constituted. The paper addresses this problematic core assumption through examination of the case of Sudan, seeking to contribute to a rethinking of protracted political violence and social crisis in postcolonial Africa. The paper interjects in such debates through the use and detailed exposition of a distinct methodological and analytical approach. It interrogates three related dimensions of explanation which are ignored by orthodox framings of ‘civil war’: (i) the technologies of colonial rule which (re)produced and
politicised multiple fractures in social relations, bequeathing a fissiparous legacy of racial, religious and ethnic ‘identities’ that have been mobilised in the context of postcolonial struggles over power and resources; (ii) the major role of geopolitics in fuelling and exacerbating conflicts within Sudan and the region, particularly through the cold war and the ‘war on terror’; and (iii) Sudan’s terms of incorporation within the capitalist global economy, which have given rise to a specific character and dynamics of accumulation, based on primitive accumulation and dependent primary commodity production. The paper concludes that political violence and crisis are neither new nor
extraordinary nor internal, but rather, crucial and constitutive dimensions of Sudan’s neocolonial
condition. As such, to claim that political violence in Sudan is ‘civil’ or ‘internal’ is to countenance the triumph of ideology over history.

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Judul Seri

The Journal of Pan African Studies

No. Panggil

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: Pan African Studies., 2012

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The Journal of Pan African Studies, vol.4, no.10, January 2012

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English

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KEJAHATAN POLITIK

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