Networks of Knowledge Production in Sudan : Identities, Mobilities, and Technologies.

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I: Introductory Section -- Chapter One: Mobilities and Identities -- Chapter Two: The Consequences of Technological Innovation for Mobility and Identity -- II: Perceptions and Values -- Chapter Three: Ethical Challenges for Social Media and Social Marketing in Sudan -- Chapter Four: Circuits of Knowledge Production on Darfur -- Chapter Five: Informatics of Domination in Peripheral Capitalist Societies of North Africa and Middle East -- Chapter Six: Toward a Holistic Perception of Health -- Chapter Seven: Eritrean Migratory Trajectories of Adolescence in Khartoum -- III: Expression and Spaces -- Chapter Eight: Conflict and Displacement -- Chapter Nine: "Neighborhood Is Our Native Culture" -- Chapter Ten: Engendering Change -- Chapter Eleven: Navigating Musical Identities, Knowledge Production and "Authenticity" in the Diaspora -- IV: Borders and Resources -- Chapter Twelve: Nuba Community Mobility in a Conflict Situation -- Chapter Thirteen: Diaspora and Identity -- Chapter Fourteen: Conflicting Identities -- Chapter Fifteen: Technology, Infrastructure and the Making of Value in Gold Prospection -- Index -- About the Contributors.

This book is an interdisciplinary collection of essays studying the intersections of identities, mobilities, and technologies within the context of knowledge production in Sudan--one of the most conflict-ridden and socially diverse landscapes in the world. The essayists look at the effects of diverse technologies such as social media, mobile telephony, trains, and gold mining on the social and economic identities of one of the world's most highly mobile populations.

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