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Podcast: Exchanges: A Cambridge UP Podcast
Episode: Alden Young, āTransformingĀ Sudan:Ā Decolonization, Economic Development, and StateĀ Formationā (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Description: Telling the story of a former colony post-independence is tricky, no matter if itās a colony in Latin America, the Middle East or East Asia. Where does the idea of theĀ ānationā slot in? Does it exist independent of colonialism? How does one talk about decolonization in post-imperial contexts? Then, you have to consider the interlocking concepts of language, race and even war. In the Sudanese case, that story can be told through the emergence of economic developmentalism. InĀ TransformingĀ Sudan:Ā Decolonization, Economic Development, and StateĀ Formation (CambridgeĀ UniversityĀ Press, 2017), Alden Young tells the story of how the Sudanese stat...