Elena Vezzadini’s research while affiliated with Institut des Mondes Africains and other places

... The second article in the nisāʾiyyāt columns was published only two weeks after "Hey Man, Hey Woman," but was very different from the first. It was an autobiographical account by a narrator who signed herself "the oppressed woman" and who entitled her piece "Oh man, this is how you behaved unfairly towards me."31 30 As in the story, which is quoted at length in Vezzadini (2018), of a man wishing to marry who goes through the ordeal of marriage rituals, and end up being penniless and abandoning his bride. The story, written by a female journalist, is narrated from the point of view of the groom. ...

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Chapter 5 Emancipation through the Press: The Women’s Movement and its Discourses on the “Women’s Problem” in Sudan on the Eve of Independence (1950–1956)

... Another driving force developed with the closer connection between labour issues and anti-colonial nationalism, which strengthened after the Second World War and became radicalised as a result of a backlash from the Sudan Government. The government's response was partly at odds with evolving labour policies in Britain itself (Taha 1970: chapter 3;Vezzadini 2017) and was far from being unchallenged, even within the colonial administration (Curless 2013). In general, these dynamics of "unwilling" labour, where government intentions diverged from what were legitimate demands in the eyes of those who were expected to carry them out, are revealing instances of the prevailing principles of governance. ...

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The Borgeig Pump Scheme in Wartime Colonial Sudan (1942–1945): Social Hierarchies, Labour and Native Administration

... Because the national archives of many Arab (and African) countries were established during the colonial era, they were founded by administrative bodies that reflected the contemporary patterns of political hegemony. For instance, as Elena Vezzadini (2012) has noted, the first national archive in Sudan (now the National Records Office) was created during the colonial period as a tool of the British administration. After the First World War, many powers were devolved to local leaders. ...

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Chapter 3 From the Terraces of Celebrated Narratives to the Cellars of Tarnished History: Obliterating Knowledge in Sudanese and Arab Historiography

... See also Fawzi (1957: 92-102). 5 For more information on these newspapers, see Vezzadini (2016). I would like to thank Mahassin Abdul Jalil for talking to me about this magazine for the first time. ...

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Chapter 5 Emancipation through the Press: The Women’s Movement and its Discourses on the “Women’s Problem” in Sudan on the Eve of Independence (1950–1956)

... A review of the narratives of the oldest inhabitants, who are often the ones who lived through the passage from Old to New Deims, although they may have been young at the time, paints a picture in which origins (of fathers and mothers, and of grandfathers and grandmothers) are far from being forgotten or censored by memory selection. A certain stigma that was enforced by colonial discourses and never abandoned in post-colonial times (Vezzadini 2015) places an emphasis on the slave origin of most of the first inhabitants of Deim, supporting the dominant vision of "blood mixture", leading one to imagine that people might hide their ethnic origins or understate the importance of ethnicity because of this feeling of inferiority. In my ethnography, however, most people had no hesitation in eliciting their regional and ethno-tribal origins prior to their arrival in Deim in detail. ...

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Chapter 16 Being Dayāma: Social Formation and Political Mobilisation in a Working Class Neighbourhood of Khartoum

... The partition of Sudan into two states in 2011 prompted fresh reflections on the field. At the time, we -three female historians from the "Global North" -proposed a "manifesto" by urging scholars to pay attention to non-elite actors and women, grass-roots and local history, the environment and the arts, oral sources, and interdisciplinary studies of culture, politics, and society (Sharkey, Vezzadini and Seri-Hersch 2015). We also argued for the ability of scholars to transcend the changing boundaries of the nation-state to unearth the past and present connections that have continuously shaped Sudanese history. ...

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Introduction: Bringing Ordinary People Back into Sudan Studies

... 39. Sur l'usage et l'efficacité des télégrammes en contexte de contestation coloniale, voir Vezzadini (2013) ; Summers (2015). 40. ...

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Remerciements