Urban Now: A Human in the Face of Borderliness and Urbanisation in Juba, South Sudan

ISBN-13: 9783631819883 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 272 str.

Maciej Kurcz

Opis

The work studies the spontaneous city spreading process of Juba after the civil war in South Sudan. The book presents the complex transformations of spatial, economic, family, religious and ethnic patterns within the new urban settings of post-war Juba. The presented material comes from the author's ethnographic research conducted in 2007-2008.

Spis treści

ethnology and cultural anthropology - ethnographic research - african studies - urban studies - South Sudan - urbanization

O autorze

Maciej Kurcz, Ph.D hab., cultural anthropologist assoc. prof. at the University of Silesia in Katowice. His research interests lie in culture dynamics in modern Africa both in the context of rural societies and urban centres. He has been engaged in researching Sudan since 2000. He has written 50 papers on Sudan in Polish and English. He is currently working on an ethno-archeological project entitled "Soba - the Heart of the Kingdom of Alwa".