Mapping the 2019 Sudan Protests

Xavier Houdoy is member of the South Asia Program and the founder of the Cartographic department at Noria. A PhD candidate at the French Institute of Geopolitics, University of Paris 8, Xavier Houdoy deals with contemporary state logics and dynamics in India’s North-East. His research focuses on the State-building process still ongoing in the region, alternatively embodied by security policies and development initiatives, and its multiple impacts on a territory that figures as a “space of resistance”.Affiliated to the Centre for Social Sciences and Humanities (CSH) in New Delhi from September 2013 to September 2015, he has conducted extensive fieldwork in New Delhi and throughout several North-East states.

Nicolas Ressler

Nicolas Ressler is a PhD candidate at the Center for Geopolitical Research and Analysis (CRAG) – Paris 8 University, and an Associate Junior Researcher at the Institut Français des Etudes Anatoliennes (IFEA). His research focuses on the business communities’ mobilizations in Turkey, mainly within South-Eastern regions. His work tackles issues at the crossroad between geopolitics and political economy. His in-depth research pays a particular attention to political-economic coalitions, development economy on territorial margins, and internal political rivalries in Turkey.

Special Issue on Sudan – Table of contents

Part 1 – May, 7

‣ General Introduction

‣ Class Dynamics in the Dissemination of the Sudanese Uprising. Interview with Magdi El Gizouli

‣ Political Economy of the Regime and Revolt. Clientelism, Asymmetry, and Injustice in the Dynamics of the Protest. Interview with Raphaëlle Chevrillon Guibert

‣ Activism from the Outside. The Mechanisms of the revolutionary Movement among the Sudanese of the Diaspora. Interview with Alice Franck

‣ The Sudanese popular Uprising: from the first Demonstrations to the Proclamation of the State of Emergency. National chronological map designed by Claire Gillette

‣ Mapping the 2019 Sudan Protests, maps designed by Xavier Houdoy and Nicolas Ressler

‣ Photo essay by Elsadig Mohamed

Part 2 – May, 20

‣ The third Sudanese Revolution reinstates Women from all Walks of Life onto the Map of Sudanese Public life. Interview with Azza Ahmed A. Aziz

‣ The Sudanese Revolution or the Climax of a Decade of challenging the Political Order? Interview with Clément Deshayes

‣ The spatial Dimension of the four-months-long sudanese Uprising. Interview with Mohamed A. G. Bakhit, Sherein Ibrahim and Rania Madani

‣ Leftist leanings and the enlivening of revolutionary memory. Interview with Elena Vezzadini

‣ Photo essay by Ali Jaffar