New book: "War and Genocide in South Sudan" by Clemence Pinaud
Using more than a decade's worth of fieldwork in South Sudan,
Clemence Pinaud here explores the relationship between predatory wealth
accumulation, state formation, and a form of racism-extreme ethnic group
entitlement-that has the potential to result in genocide. War and
Genocide in South Sudan traces the rise of a predatory state during
civil war in southern Sudan and its transformation into a violent Dinka
ethnocracy after the region's formal independence. That new state,
Pinaud argues, waged genocide against non-Dinka civilians in 2013-2017.
During a civil war that wrecked the region between 1983 and 2005,
the predominantly Dinka Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) practiced
ethnically exclusive and predatory wealth accumulation. Its actions
fostered extreme group entitlement and profoundly shaped the rebel
state. Ethnic group entitlement eventually grew into an ideology of
ethnic supremacy. After that war ended, the semi-autonomous state
turned into a violent and predatory ethnocracy-a process accelerated by
independence in 2011. The rise of exclusionary nationalism, a new
security landscape, and inter-ethnic political competition contributed
to the start of a new round of civil war in 2013, in which the recently
founded state unleashed violence against nearly all non-Dinka ethnic
groups. Pinaud investigates three campaigns waged by the South Sudan
government in 2013-2017 and concludes they were genocidal-they sought to
destroy non-Dinka target groups. She demonstrates how the perpetrators'
sense of group entitlement culminated in land-grabs that amounted to a
genocidal conquest echoing the imperialist origins of modern genocides.
Thanks to generous funding from TOME, the ebook editions of this book
are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open
(cornellopen.org) and other repositories.
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