State-building South Sudan International Intervention and the Formation of a Fragmented State

Contents
Acknowledgments
Figures and Tables
Abbreviations
Introduction
1 State-Building in “Post-Conflict” South Sudan
2 Between Politics and Policies
3 Extraversion and the Agency of Local Actors
4 State-Building or State Formation?
5 Methodology
5.1 Space
5.2 Time
5.3 Positionality
5.4 Sources
6 Outline of the Book
1. Patterns of State-building in Southern Sudan in a Historical Perspective
1 Introduction
2 The Pattern of Physical Force: Violent Encounters
2.1 From Commerce to Rehearsal of Government
2.2 The Anglo-Egyptian Condominium
3 Building Predictability: Localized Bureaucratization
3.1 Government’s First Steps: Monetization and Taxation
3.2 The Development of Administrative Theory
3.3 The Southern Policy: Territorializing Communities
3.4 The Creation of Intra-South Inequalities
4 Rise and Fall of Modern State Legitimacy
4.1 The Emergence of Local Power Brokers
4.2 The State as a Source of Legitimate Power
5 The Post-Colonial State and War
5.1 The Anyanya Rebel Movement: Attempts at Controlling the Territory and Establishing (a Little) Legitimacy
5.2 The Local State in Times of Peace: Attempts at Changing the Pattern of State Formation
5.3 Strengthening Centralization: The Management of Land
5.4 The Crumbling of State Legitimacy: Failure of the Addis Ababa Agreement
6 Conclusions
2. SPLM and State-Building: Playing the “Fragile State” Card
1 Introduction
2 The SPLM: Local Guerrilla Government
2.1 A Unifying Narrative (and Contradictory Practices)
2.2 The Embryo Administration
2.3 The Civil Administration of the New Sudan
3 The Role of Relief Aid in Establishing splm/a’s “State-within-a-State”
3.1 Building splm’s Legitimacy: Operation Lifeline Sudan
3.2 A Difficult Relationship
3.3 Preventing Governance Failures: The star Project
4 Taking State-Building “Out of the Bush”
4.1 State-Building the splm
4.2 Workshops as a “Negotiation Arena”
5 Conclusion
3. Post-Conflict Decentralization
1 Introduction
2 The Benefit of Post-Conflict Decentralization: Dream or Reality?
3 The Establishment of the Local Government
4 Looking Like a State
4.1 The Aesthetics of the State
4.2 The Legibility of Local Government
5 Decentralization: A Rashomon Effect?
5.1 Effectiveness or Inclusion?
6 Conclusion
4. The State’s Delivery Function
1 Introduction
2 The Traditional Temptation
2.1 Traditional Resurgence with Donors’ Support
2.2 Local Chiefs and the splm
2.3 The Operationalization of Chiefs’ Inclusion in the Local Government
3 Providing Services to Southern Sudan
3.1 Service Delivery and Legitimate State-Building
3.2 Chiefs, Local Governments and the “Delivery Function”
3.3 International Support to Local Service Delivery
4 Using the Local State: Service Delivery Discourses and Practices
4.1 Yirol West: “Taking Towns to the People” or People Going to Town?
4.2 Drivers of “Administrative Independence”
4.3 The Politics of “Taking Towns to the People”
5 Conclusion
5. Land Governance and State-building
1 Introduction
2 Land Governance and State-building in Southern Sudan
2.1 The Community as a Right-Bearing Subject
2.2 “The Land Belongs to the Community”
3 Borders, Boundaries and Communities
3.1 The Demarcation Dilemma and the Politicization of Land Disputes
3.2 Claiming the Land, Pulling the Border
3.2.1 The Acholi–Madi Land Dispute
3.2.2 Manga between First-Comers and Late-Comers
3.2.3 Claiming Peri-Urban Land in Bentiu Town
3.3 Asserting Community Ownership of the Towns
3.3.1 Universal Rights of Citizens: A Contentious Issue
3.3.2 Customary Rights of the Community
4 Who is the Community?
4.1 (Flawed) Assumptions about Community Homogeneity
4.2 Representation or Patronage?
4.2.1 Community Participation Dynamics in Tindilo Payam
4.2.2 Concealing Exclusion in Lainya County
5 Conclusion
Conclusion
Bibliography
List of Documents from the Local Government Board Archive
List of Documents from Other Archives
List of Interviews
Individual Interviews
Collective Interviews/Discussions
Index
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