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oapen-20.500.12657-590642022-10-26T03:35:55Z Urban Now Kurcz, Maciej african studies borderlands studies Borderliness ethnographic research ethnology Face Human Juba Kurcz South South Sudan Sudan Urban urban studies Urbanisation bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJH African history The subject of the study is the spontaneous city spreading process of Juba after the end of the civil war in South Sudan (2005). The book presents the complex dynamics of transformations within the new urban settings of post-war Juba. The viewpoint taken while describing these phenomena is the adaptation of an average migrant to a new urban environment. This was not an easy task. At that time the city was characterised by extremely harsh living conditions, harsh even for post-war South Sudan. Despite the difficulties, the city’s development was visible. The phenomenon of borderlineness – the closeness of the state’s borders – appeared to be helpful in this process. It influenced the effectiveness of human activities, it is an answer to the spontaneous city spreading processes – it brought danger, but most of all, infinite possibilities. The presented material comes from the author's ethnographic research conducted in Juba in 2007 and 2008. 2022-10-25T10:31:23Z 2022-10-25T10:31:23Z 2021 book ONIX_20221025_9783631849859_15 9783631849859 9783631849927 9783631849934 9783631819883 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/59064 eng International Relations in Asia, Africa and the Americas application/pdf n/a 9783631849859.pdf Peter Lang International Academic Publishers 10.3726/b18166 10.3726/b18166 e927e604-2954-4bf6-826b-d5ecb47c6555 9783631849859 9783631849927 9783631849934 9783631819883 11 272 Bern open access
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The subject of the study is the spontaneous city spreading process of Juba after the end of the civil war in South Sudan (2005). The book presents the complex dynamics of transformations within the new urban settings of post-war Juba. The viewpoint taken while describing these phenomena is the adaptation of an average migrant to a new urban environment. This was not an easy task. At that time the city was characterised by extremely harsh living conditions, harsh even for post-war South Sudan. Despite the difficulties, the city’s development was visible. The phenomenon of borderlineness – the closeness of the state’s borders – appeared to be helpful in this process. It influenced the effectiveness of human activities, it is an answer to the spontaneous city spreading processes – it brought danger, but most of all, infinite possibilities. The presented material comes from the author's ethnographic research conducted in Juba in 2007 and 2008.
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