Amal Hassan Fadlalla

Branding Humanity

Competing Narratives of Rights, Violence, and Global Citizenship

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Produktbeschreibung

Amal Hassan Fadlalla is Associate Professor of Anthropology, Women's Studies, and Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Embodying Honor: Fertility, Foreignness, and Regeneration in Eastern Sudan (2007).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781503607262
• ISBN-10: 1503607267
• Artikelnr.: 50911260

Autorenporträt

Amal Hassan Fadlalla is Associate Professor of Anthropology, Women's Studies, and Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Embodying Honor: Fertility, Foreignness, and Regeneration in Eastern Sudan (2007).

Inhaltsangabe

Contents and Abstracts
Introduction: Violence Narratives and the Cultural Politics of Identity
chapter abstract
The introduction lays out the theoretical, historical, ethnographic, and
methodological framework of the book. It situates the production and
circulation of violence narratives and the alliances, performances, and
publics they engender in transnational theories that invoke the flexibility
of citizenship, identities, and global flows of people, ideas, and capital.
It further suggests a framework that incorporates competing models of
transnationalities to reflect a hardening of social boundaries and a
politics of exclusion and dispossession in the post-Cold War era.
1Performing Humanity: Suffering and the Making of Global Citizens
chapter abstract
Chapter One focuses on the transnational alliances created during the
conflict between Northern and Southern Sudan and shows how these alliances
were performed in different sites and transnational forums to imagine a
southern national identity tied to religious suffering, compassion, and a
neoliberal understanding of ethno-gendered humanity. Such alliances
countered the rising tide of transnational Islamic solidarities and their
liberation rhetoric at the end of the Cold War. The early wave of alliances
in the 1990s, and the later solidarities that followed before the country's
separation on July 9, 2011, manifests the role of faith-based groups in
redefining Sudan's ethnic identities and debating the country's place in
the emerging moral orders of Pan-Islamism and pan-humanitarianism. These
different processes and mobilizations provided the fertile ground and
marked the "right time" for the separation of the country into two nations.
2Humanitarian Publics: Celebrities, Solidarities, and Students
chapter abstract
Chapter Two traces the ways in which human rights and humanitarian cultural
politics have proliferated in the era of celebrity activism and
transnational alliances for the Sudan. It considers the case of the Darfur
conflict as a "second wave" in the development of these alliances, one that
both diverged from and intersected with activism for South Sudan. This
second wave of alliances also brings to light the role of celebrity
activism in educating a new generation of American student activists,
allies, and role models. The chapter provides many counter-narratives to
contrast with the predominant narrative of celebrity humanitarianism and
shows how celebrity mobilization informed activists' aspirations and
constrained their spaces for struggles in various ways. It examines
celebrity activism as another site of transnational alliances and protests,
an extension of a humanitarian public, and a creative way of performing
humanity, affective violence, and the right to development.
3Diaspora as Counter-Response: Citizenship Rights and the Suffering of
Ghurba
chapter abstract
Chapter Three presents an alternative humanist narrative grounded in the
idea of "diaspora publics" and the reassertion of national and
transnational citizenship rights in exile. It problematizes the
construction of a rigid "Northern Sudanese" identity by considering the
voices of seculars, Muslims, and non-Muslims who dream of national unity,
diversity, and inclusion, and whose national and transnational aspirations
are constrained by the hegemonic narratives of pan-humanitarianism and
Pan-Islamism. The work of these overshadowed communities, alliances, and
social networks has helped to offset the impact of exclusion in the
aftermath of 9/11, the escalation of the Sudanese conflicts, and the
country's subsequent division. By presenting these counter-narratives and
different ways of organizing, the chapter emphasizes that the humanitarian
model of global citizenship leaves no room for the variety of experiences
that depict national and transnational visions of rights, humanity, and
belonging.
4Contested Borders of Inhumanity: Refuge and the Production and Circulation
of Violence Narratives
chapter abstract
Chapter Four introduces the concept of "audiopolitics" to explain how the
circulation and production of violence narratives serve as an effective
medium through which the transnational humanitarian audience is mobilized
to listen, respond, and act. The chapter shows how this form of narration
has been facilitated by the emergence of the Sudanese cyberpublic media
that connect Sudanese transnational actors, and their allies, in various
diaspora locales. It positions this circulation of stories of violence
within the expanding moral politics of rights and humanitarianism and the
counter-responses they engender, such as Sudanese nafir practices of
solidarity and social care. The chapter thereby proposes a different
reading of violence narratives that situates the root causes of violence in
political history and in competing structures of feelings and moral claims
of national and transnational affinities.
5Toward an Inclusive Humanist Future: Borders, Bodies, and Funerals
chapter abstract
The book's conclusion describes the historical moments after the South
Sudan referendum and division. It also explains why narratives of
ethno-gendered violence-similar to those used to describe the conflicts in
the Sudan before the division-have yet to emerge. In the clash of visions
among Islamists, secularists, and human rights and humanitarian activists
over the identity of the Sudan, the meanings of place and the parameters of
belonging have all been challenged. To this end, the conclusion emphasizes
the importance of a transnational/trans-relational approach that captures
the wide spectrum of ethno-gendered and embodied discourses and practices,
their visibilities and invisibilities, across time and space.