Season 1, Episode 5: Economics, Expertise, and Revolution in Postcolonial Sudan
Season 1, Episode 5: Economics, Expertise, and Revolution in Postcolonial Sudan
In this episode, edna bonhomme is in conversation with Dr. Alden Young, Assistant Professor of African American Studies at UCLA. Dr. Young traces the impact of multiple colonialisms in Sudan under the Ottoman Empire, Egypt, and the British Empire. Critiquing reductive historiographies of the civil wars in Sudan and discussing recent protests in Khartoum and throughout Sudan, Dr. Young connects how petroleum, mining, and austerity measures under former President Omar al-Bashir and the IMF relate to the ongoing economic crisis as well as have led to extensive resistance against imperialist structures in Sudan, highlighting especially the activism and theoretical works by Sudanese womanists. Dr Young also addresses postcolonial Sudan, economic science, and planning by Sudanese experts.
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biography
Dr Alden Young,
photo: Dan Komoda/Institute for Advanced Study
Links: Website, @Alden_Young
DR. ALDEN YOUNG
Alden Young is a political and economic historian of Africa. He is particularly interested in the ways in which Africans participated in the creation of the current international order. He is an assistant professor of African American Studies at UCLA and a member of the International Institute, affiliated with the International Development Studies Program. In 2019–2020, Young will be a member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Previously, he was an assistant professor in African History and the Director of the Africana Studies Program at Drexel University. His first book Transforming Sudan: Decolonization, Economic Development, and State Formation was published by Cambridge University Press in December 2017.
show credits
Thank you
A special thanks to Dr. Alden Young.