ABSTRACT

No other crisis in Africa has received as much attention in the West during the past 10 years as the war in Darfur, yet the underlying complexities of the war and the background to the crisis remains poorly understood by scholars, activists and aid workers.

This anthropological study of the war in Darfur explores the personal experience of war from the perspective of those refugees who have fled from it and puts forward potential solutions to the conflict. Drawing on ethnographic research carried out in the refugee camps of neighbouring eastern Chad,The War in Darfur: Reclaiming Sudanese History gives a voice to people who to date have had little opportunity to articulate their experiences.

Through facilitating the telling of the refugees’ tale, examining what happened and how, this book will be an interesting contribution to the areas of refugee studies, anthropology and history.

chapter |10 pages

Introduction

Modes of explanation and production of history

chapter |15 pages

Studying war and displacement in Sudan

Framing the field

chapter |13 pages

Designs for Darfur

Mirror images

chapter |9 pages

Deep listening

Introducing the project “Darfurian Voices”

chapter |29 pages

Into the camps

Inscriptions and depictions

chapter |24 pages

Arabs remembered

Locals and foreigners

chapter |26 pages

Reinventing the rebellion

Causes and chronologies

chapter |19 pages

Returns

Circumscribed futures

chapter |7 pages

Conclusion

Congestion and marginalization