Focusing on body marks among Murle youth, this article explores the meanings that Murle youth attribute to them. The article finds that Murle youth associate body marks, depicting assault rifles, army ranks, mobile phones, UN acronyms, with urban and military culture. The article provides insights on how the meanings attached to body marks represents Murle’s quest for modernity and power. Read more here
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The article offers a nuanced account of how identities are negotiated and contested in South Sudan, by focusing on how Murle and ŋalam identities were deployed in different ways in different places in overlapping periods during a time of armed conflict. The article focuses on the 2012-2014 period of war between the South Sudanese government and a largely Murle rebellion. Read more here
Introduction Murle society is non-hierarchical and political power is diffused to the extent that there are no institutional leadership roles. It is thus often represented as lacking credible and legitimate governance structures. While Murle society is acephalous and egalitarian, in that there is no single leader like a king and decisions are instead taken collectively, there are clear authority structures that should be understood.[1] The above representations are, quite significantly, part of the narrative that…
International, national and local political discourses often portray the Murle community as principal aggressors and the source of much of the instability affecting former Jonglei State in South Sudan. Although such negative stereotypes are partially driven by actual events, they are also manipulated by certain groups to serve political purposes and informed by the assumption that there is a lack of credible authority structure among the Murle. Changing Power Among Murle Chiefs investigates how Murle…
This paper explores the cross-border attacks from South Sudan into Gambella in April 2016. Doing this it counters reductionist narratives of Murle communities and the role of Murle leaders. Download
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