2017
DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2017.1294497
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Governing Unclear Lines: Local Boundaries as a (Re)source of Conflict in South Sudan

Abstract: South Sudan's administrative boundaries stem from the colonial period. Since it gained independence in 2011, subsequent rounds of reshuffling of the political system, internal borders, and power relations have been a source of confusion, elite manipulation, and conflict throughout the country. This paper explores the impact of this confusion by focusing on multiple shifting linkages between administrative boundaries and identities and shows how the mobilization of ethnic identities has become central to territ… Show more

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“…This study builds on recent work on land rights, legal pluralism and public authority (Meagher et al 2014; Schomerus & De Vries 2014; Pendle 2015; Hoffmann et al 2016; Lund 2016; Schouten 2016; Justin & De Vries 2017; Tapscott 2017; Twijnstra & Titeca 2016). It looks at how Juba is regulated and managed by bodies and individuals who have been established, and rooted themselves, as arbitrators and administrators in the city; and whose careers, investments and connections span state and local government, military and security positions, and private entrepreneurship (drawing on Badiey 2013, 2014; McMichael 2014, 2016).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 93%
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“…This study builds on recent work on land rights, legal pluralism and public authority (Meagher et al 2014; Schomerus & De Vries 2014; Pendle 2015; Hoffmann et al 2016; Lund 2016; Schouten 2016; Justin & De Vries 2017; Tapscott 2017; Twijnstra & Titeca 2016). It looks at how Juba is regulated and managed by bodies and individuals who have been established, and rooted themselves, as arbitrators and administrators in the city; and whose careers, investments and connections span state and local government, military and security positions, and private entrepreneurship (drawing on Badiey 2013, 2014; McMichael 2014, 2016).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 93%
“…This article strives to understand this renewed normality, and which authorities have roots and traction in the city today. What orders are actually resilient, what makes up the remaining rules of law, and who rules Juba? This study builds on recent work on land rights, legal pluralism, and public authority (Tapscott 2017;Justin & De Vries 2017;Hoffmann, Vlassenroot & Marchais 2016;Schouten 2016;Lund 2016;Twijnstra & Titeca 2016;Pendle 2015;Meagher, De Herdt & Titeca 2014;Schomerus & De Vries 2014). It looks at how Juba is regulated and managed by bodies and individuals who have been established, and rooted themselves, as arbitrators and administrators in the city; and whose careers, investments, and connections span state and local government, military and security positions, and private entrepreneurship (drawing on Badiey 2013Badiey , 2014McMichael 2014McMichael , 2016.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…By mapping boundaries and demarcating different territories, colonial administrators tried to govern colonial subjects by containing different groups in clearly delineated, visible, and controllable areas. Administrative powers were attached to boundaries that gave birth to provinces and districts, and later regions (Justin and De Vries, 2017). On top of a colonial grid of administrative boundaries, authorities tried to separate territories of statecontrol (e.g.…”
Section: Tanzania's History Of State-making Projects Of Land and Resomentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Ethnicization was a strategy of early colonial rule to reorganize and reorder African societies along ethnic lines and institutions, so that colonial subjects could be governed through indirect rule. Ethnicization was underpinned by racialized images of Africans, whose fluid and overlapping identities were made more rigid and fixed -and thereby legible and controllable -by colonial territorialization (Hodgson, 2001;Justin and De Vries, 2017). Although post-colonial nation building has successfully undone much of this policy through detribalization in Tanzania (Boone and Nyeme, 2015;Greco, 2016), present-day administrative divisions continue to be based on a colonial cartography (Justin and De Vries, 2017).…”
Section: Tanzania's History Of State-making Projects Of Land and Resomentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For instance, Warrap state and Lakes state — both nearly entirely inhabited by various Dinka clans — have witnessed fierce competition between clans and subgroups over access to representation within local government, and the best grazing areas for cattle. Local elite dynamics, therefore, partly answer why the country fell apart so quickly after 2013 (Justin and de Vries, ; Pinaud, ). Factionalized elites, however, already scored 10.0 in 2011, which made it impossible for the FSI — as a bounded index — to show how the situation greatly worsened in the following years.…”
Section: Approaches and Constraints To Measuring Fragilitymentioning
confidence: 99%