{"product_id":"darfur-allegory-paperback","title":"Darfur Allegory - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRogaia Mustafa Abusharaf\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Darfur conflict exploded in early 2003 when two rebel groups, the Sudan Liberation Movement and the Justice and Equality Movement, struck national military installations in Darfur to send a hard-hitting message of resentment over the region's political and economic marginalization. The conflict devastated the region's economy, shredded its fragile social fabric, and drove millions of people from their homes. \u003ci\u003eDarfur Allegory\u003c\/i\u003e is a dispatch from the humanitarian crisis that explains the historical and ethnographic background to competing narratives that have informed international responses. At the heart of the book is Sudanese anthropologist Rogaia Abusharaf's critique of the pseudoscientific notions of race and ethnicity that posit divisions between \"Arab\" northerners and \"African\" Darfuris. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Elaborated in colonial times and enshrined in policy afterwards, such binary categories have been adopted by the media to explain the civil war in Darfur. The narratives that circulate internationally are thus highly fraught and cover over-to counterproductive effect-forms of Darfurian activism that have emerged in the conflict's wake. \u003ci\u003eDarfur Allegory\u003c\/i\u003e marries the analytical precision of a committed anthropologist with an insider's view of Sudanese politics at home and in the diaspora, laying bare the power of words to heal or perpetuate civil conflict.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRogaia Mustafa Abusharaf\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of anthropology at the Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service in Qatar, Georgetown University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.48 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 15, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52629392556339,"sku":"9780226761725","price":58.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/aXFCc0NHSTRtNWpPM0ZUVWh1V3RXQT09.webp?v=1762127913","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/darfur-allegory-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}