Front Cover -- About the Author -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- A Note on Terminology -- Introduction: Gabriel Anyang Remembers his Childhood -- Gabriel Anyang's Story -- The Miracle of Money -- The Jonglei Mix -- A History of Abduction -- National Identity -- The Aims of This Book -- Sources -- Organization of Chapters -- Part One: Society and State -- 1: The Social Landscape -- Ecology and Economy -- Landscapes and Transport -- Language and Migration -- Migrations as Connections -- Exogamy and Multilingualism -- Arabic and Urban Migration -- States and Stateless Societies -- Representing and Misrepresenting Diversity -- 2: South Sudan's Encounter with Modernity -- The Cause of the Violence - Cultural Irreconcilabilities or the Violence of Development? -- The Construction of Racial Oppression -- The Construction of Underdevelopment -- The New Periphery Defeats the Centre -- Jonglei's Long Nineteenth Century -- The Geography of Uneven Development -- Conclusion -- 3: Development and Representation -- Development and Pessimism -- A History of Postponed Development -- Underdevelopment and the Economic Autonomy of the State -- The Changing Basis of the State's Economic Autonomy from Society -- Colonial Budgets -- Dilemmas of Allocation and Representation -- Post Allocation and Patronage -- The Emergence of 'Minorities' -- Government Posts and the Drift Towards War -- 4: Theories of Revolution -- Understanding South Sudan's Path to Development -- Anya-Nya's Aims -- Anya-Nya and the Communist Movement -- The Rapid Formulation of the SPLM/A's Objectives -- Conventional War -- Dependency Theory -- The Limitations of Dependency Theory.

5: State and Society in Jonglei After the Comprehensive Peace Agreement -- An Evening with the Ambassadors -- The SPLM's Inheritance -- Ethnic Competition for State Posts -- Administrative Boundaries and Ethnic Boundaries -- Administrative Boundaries and Land Disputes After 2005 -- Counties as a Means to Manage State Patronage -- Concentrating Wealth in Juba -- The Importance of Towns in the Creation of New Ideas About Ethnicity -- Ethnicity in Diasporas and Towns -- Diasporas: Prestige Schools and Prestige Brides -- Diasporas from (Northern) Sudan and East Africa -- Urban Ethnic Associations -- Ethnicity and the State -- The SPLM System and Ethnicity -- The SPLA System and Ethnicity -- Part Two: Jonglei's Mutinies -- 6: The Life and Death of Hassan Nagachingol -- 7: The Civil Wars in Jonglei -- Overview of the 1983-2005 Civil War -- Pibor as Vantage Point -- Setting People against Each Other -- The 1980s: Jonglei's Militias and the National Drift Towards War -- 1991: The Split in the SPLA -- The White Army -- 1991: The Attack on Bor -- 1992: The Nuer Civil War -- New Youth Army -- Youth Armies in Pibor -- The Mid-1990s - War Reconfigured Around Militias -- Youth and Militarization in Bor and Bahr al-Ghazal -- Comprehensive Peace and Disarmament -- 8: The Geography of Conflict in Jonglei After the Comprehensive Peace Agreement -- Other Modes of Insecurity - The Intra-Sectional Feud -- Jonglei's Persistent Mutinies -- Mapping Conflicts - Evidence from Government Records -- Massive Raids -- Opportunistic Attacks -- The Motivations of Non-Traditional Armed Groups -- Defence -- Accumulation -- Murle Systems of Booty Distribution -- Conquest -- Prophecy and Politics -- Armed Youth and National Politics -- Structures of Violence.

Part Three: Social Transformation -- 9: Raiding and Eating -- A Transformed Food Economy -- Hungry People and Growing Herds -- A Cattle Economy at the Margins of the Market -- Traditional Cattle Ownership, Exchange and Labour Systems -- The Breakdown of the Traditional Livestock Economy -- Uneven Development in Bor and in the Jonglei Hinterlands -- Bor Town - Integration into a Market Economy -- Lou Nuer Areas and the Functions of the Raid -- Pibor - Access to Markets -- A Transformed Society -- 10: Nyaburjok -- Nyaburjok -- Unruly and Mysterious -- Abduction as a Gender Story -- Evidence of Murle Women's Predisposition to Infertility: The Colonial Period -- Evidence from the 1970s -- Recent Evidence -- Reasons for Abduction -- Abduction and the Changing Status of Childless Women -- Fertility and Men -- Dependence and Resistance -- Conclusion: Slow Liberation -- The Jonglei Vantage Point -- Crises in 2012 and 2013 -- The Crisis in Jonglei -- December 2013: The Army Splits -- Jonglei's New Mutiny -- National Unity and National Memory -- The State Rolls Forward -- Distributing Rent -- The Periphery and the Future -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.