Chapter
Part One: Society and State
Migrations as Connections
Exogamy and Multilingualism
Arabic and Urban Migration
States and Stateless Societies
Representing and Misrepresenting Diversity
2: South Sudan's Encounter with Modernity
The Cause of the Violence – Cultural Irreconcilabilities or the Violence of Development?
The Construction of Racial Oppression
The Construction of Underdevelopment
The New Periphery Defeats the Centre
Jonglei’s Long Nineteenth Century
The Geography of Uneven Development
3: Development and Representation
Development and Pessimism
A History of Postponed Development
Underdevelopment and the Economic Autonomy of the State
The Changing Basis of the State’s Economic Autonomy from Society
Dilemmas of Allocation and Representation
Post Allocation and Patronage
The Emergence of ‘Minorities’
Government Posts and the Drift Towards War
4: Theories of Revolution
Understanding South Sudan’s Path to Development
Anya-Nya and the Communist Movement
The Rapid Formulation of the SPLM/A’s Objectives
The Limitations of Dependency Theory
5: State and Society in Jonglei After the Comprehensive Peace Agreement
An Evening with the Ambassadors
Ethnic Competition for State Posts
Administrative Boundaries and Ethnic Boundaries
Administrative Boundaries and Land Disputes After 2005
Counties as a Means to Manage State Patronage
Concentrating Wealth in Juba
The Importance of Towns in the Creation of New Ideas About Ethnicity
Ethnicity in Diasporas and Towns
Diasporas: Prestige Schools and Prestige Brides
Diasporas from (Northern) Sudan and East Africa
Urban Ethnic Associations
The SPLM System and Ethnicity
The SPLA System and Ethnicity
Part Two: Jonglei's Mutinies
6: The Life and Death of Hassan Nagachingol
7: The Civil Wars in Jonglei
Overview of the 1983–2005 Civil War
Setting People against Each Other
The 1980s: Jonglei’s Militias and the National Drift Towards War
1991: The Split in the SPLA
The Mid-1990s – War Reconfigured Around Militias
Youth and Militarization in Bor and Bahr al-Ghazal
Comprehensive Peace and Disarmament
8: The Geography of Conflict in Jonglei After the Comprehensive Peace Agreement
Other Modes of Insecurity – The Intra-Sectional Feud
Jonglei’s Persistent Mutinies
Mapping Conflicts – Evidence from Government Records
The Motivations of Non-Traditional Armed Groups
Murle Systems of Booty Distribution
Armed Youth and National Politics
Part Three: Social Transformation
A Transformed Food Economy
Hungry People and Growing Herds
A Cattle Economy at the Margins of the Market
Traditional Cattle Ownership, Exchange and Labour Systems
The Breakdown of the Traditional Livestock Economy
Uneven Development in Bor and in the Jonglei Hinterlands
Bor Town – Integration into a Market Economy
Lou Nuer Areas and the Functions of the Raid
Pibor – Access to Markets
Abduction as a Gender Story
Evidence of Murle Women’s Predisposition to Infertility: The Colonial Period
Abduction and the Changing Status of Childless Women
Dependence and Resistance
Conclusion: Slow Liberation
The Jonglei Vantage Point
December 2013: The Army Splits
National Unity and National Memory
The Periphery and the Future
South Sudan
：A Slow Liberation
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