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MULTI-DIMENSION BORDERNESS AND URBANIZATION PROCESSES IN SOUTH SUDANESE JUBA

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Kurcz M.
Hemispheres. Studies on Cultures and Societies
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2010
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issue 25
47-56
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Juba is a borderland city - situating in the most southern part of Sudan, in close proximity of border with Kenya, Uganda, Congo DR and Central African Republic. These limitation of this district of Southern Sudan harmonizes with the thresholds of historical periods of Juba and the whole of Southern Sudan, always hung somewhere between crisis and stabilization, war and peace, chaos and order. In the case of this particular city, the so called 'borders' are being constantly intensified by very vivid urban development. Juba is currently in the phase of creation. Furthermore, it is also a place of intensive influence of many phenomena of a transforming nature - e.g. globalization or informal commercial trade exchange. All those causes make it possible for a specific culture to maintain, both in meaning and the processual sense very close to the third phase of Arnold's van Gennep rites de passage - 'trespassing rituals'. In this case there is also the association with another grand ethnologist - Victor Turner, and his theory on the ritual of the liminality.
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JUBA - A CENTRE OF CULTURE AND CONFLICT: TRANSFORMATION OF ETHNICITY IN POST-WAR SOUTH SUDAN (Dzuba - osrodek kultur i konfliktów. Przemiany etnicznosci w powojennym Sudanie Poludniowym)

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Kurcz M.
Sprawy Narodowościowe
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2009
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issue 34
183-199
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Juba, the capital of autonomous South Sudan, is becoming a regional metropolis. After the civil war ended in 2005, there was a flood of migration into the city. Juba is already a city of various cultures, as well as numerous conflicts in which ethnic groups are often involved, but is now involved in a kind of experimental urban ground for interrelationships between different ethnicities in post-war South Sudan. This article presents the complex processes of transformations of identity in this part of Africa as seen from the perspective of the municipal, religious and trade centres. Moreover, the author attempts to analyze in detail what happens to ethnicity when this transition took place in Juba. The presented material comes from the author's field work done in South Sudan in 2007 and 2008.
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Międzynarodowa konferencja: VI Konferencja Europejskich Studiów Afrykańskich (6th European Conference on African Studies, ECAS6), Collective Mobilizations in Africa: Contestation, Resistance, Revolt

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Kurcz M.
Afryka
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2015
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issue 42
159-161
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JUBA - THE CITY ON THE AFRICAN BORDERLAND. ANALYSIS OF DIFFRENT ASPECTS OF BORDERNESS EXPERIENCE (Dzuba - miasto pogranicza afrykanskiego. Analiza róznych aspektów doswiadczenia pogranicznosci)

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Kurcz M.
Etnografia Polska
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2010
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vol. 54
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issue 1-2
47-64
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Contemporary African borderland is an area of intensive urban life concentrating people within the cities, as well as creating origins of semi-urban culture. Borderness does not only have literal dimension, but it can also be understood metaphorically - as a feeling of liminality, discontinuity, temporality, thus resembling the middle stage of van Gennep's rites of passage. Both general dimensions are equally responsible for unique cultural reality. In this article I will look into different manifestations of borderlandness in modern reality of Juba town - not only dynamic urban centre of African borderland, but also a capital of semi-independent country - Southern Sudan. In addition, I will present a specificity of local urbanism influenced by multi-dimensional borderlandness. Finally, I shall expose how useful the concept of borderland may be in an analysis of modern African urbanization. Presented phenomenon was an object of my ethnographic investigation during three field studies in Juba in 2007-2008. Conducted research project called 'Juba - centre of cultures and conflicts' was financially supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Poland.
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