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SUMMARY:Disruptive listening in times of conflict: the poetics of war and 
 citizenship in Dinka cattle songs in South Sudan - Dr Angela Impey (SOAS) 
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CONTACT:Victoria Jones
DESCRIPTION:Political analysts and historians frequently described the civ
 il wars in Sudan as a ‘theater of proliferating conflicts’. However\, 
 while independence of South Sudan in 2011 may have closed the curtain on o
 ne act\, it has given rise to a new drama generated by war-induced poverty
 \, weak state capability and critical levels of internecine violence. Wher
 e the government and its international development partners may have ident
 ified state-making and security as their foremost development priorities -
  agendas that are shaped as much by global political and strategic conside
 rations as by the economic needs and policy performance of the country - t
 his paper will attend to that less articulated project of nation-building\
 , listening in on the aspirations\, critiques and validations from the cit
 izens themselves. Specifically\, it will examine ways in which songs in Di
 nka culture\, whose highly stylized rhetorical and performative convention
  is manifest through finely observed allusions to cattle\, offer a public 
 platform where individuals and groups engage their futures imaginatively a
 nd pragmatically in relation to the state.
LOCATION:Seminar Room S1 Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge
  CB3 9DT
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