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Water, civilisation and power in Sudan : the political economy of military-Islamist state building /
In 1989, a secretive movement of Islamists allied itself to a military cabal to violently take power in Africa's biggest country. Sudan's revolutionary regime was built on four pillars - a new politics, economic liberalisation, an Islamic revival, and a U-turn in foreign relations - and mi...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2015.
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| Series: | African studies series ;
131. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Prologue: the inauguration of the Merowe Dam
- State-building, the environment and the civilisation mission
- Hydraulic civilisation and land of famine: the crafting of the Sudanese state and its sources of power
- Mashru al-Hadhari: the rise of Sudan's Al-Ingaz regime and its civilisation project
- The hydro-political economy of Al-Ingaz: economic salvation through "dams as development"
- The geopolitics of the Nile: Khartoum's dam programme and agricultural revival in the global political economy
- Military-Islamist state-building and its contradictions: mirages in the desert, South Sudan's secession and the new hydropolitics of the Nile
- Conclusion: water, civilisation and power
- Appendix: elite interviews and in-depth testimonies.