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AEGIS European Conference on African Studies
11 - 14 July 2007
African Studies Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Articulating politics of liberation and autochthonous identity in claiming communal land in the Nuba Mountains region, Sudan
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61. Autochtony, citizenship and exclusion - struggles over resources and belonging
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| Paper ID | 706 |
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Komey, Guma Kunda
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| Abstract | In this paper I explore local discourses and practices of autochthony in South Kordofan, Sudan. The main focus is on questions of access rights and use rights to land and water. The core issue is the legal status and the practice of claiming communal land rights with reference to belonging to an indigenous group with strong ties to an ancestral homeland. In a region with several centuries of migrations, forced displacements, all kinds of mixtures and in a context of legal pluralism, cultural complexity, and fluid boundaries claims of autochthony are necessarily contested, though. Along some ethnographic case studies I will discuss negotiations of such claims.
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