Chapter 7: A Revolution from the Urban Peripheries: The Negarz Groups in Khartoum
摘要
The purpose of this chapter is to analyse the 2018 Sudanese Revolution as a process and its role in achieving a democratic socio-political change and building imagination of fair and equal citizenship for all Sudanese citizens. The chapter is focusing on a local group of young people living in Khartoum’s shantytowns, known locally as negarz gangs. This case study used to analyse the various narratives and strategies employed by marginalised social groups in the shantytowns of Khartoum. The methodology adopted in this chapter depends on the prison as a site for conducting fieldwork interviews with nine young people belong to negarz groups. The chapter have tried to analyse how the populations of shantytowns placed within the landscape of the political contestation that is taking place in the whole of Sudan during December Revolution. The negarz groups were constructed as a result of both historical processes of marginalisation and a lack of equal distribution of resources for the peripheral regions of Sudan, and were later criminalised, fostering the separation between the Khartoum political elites that have been identified as the legitimate actors of revolutionary change and the youth of the peripheral urban areas.