Saviors and Survivors

Evaluating Advocacy: Genocide and Self-Awareness in Hamilton’s Fighting for Darfur By Laura Seay Journalist Rebecca Hamilton’s new book: Fighting for Darfur: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide, is a remarkable discussion of a difficult question:  Why, despite gaining

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Fighting Over Darfur By Alex Thurston Rebecca Hamilton’s Fighting for Darfur: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide raises important and troubling questions about the relationship between America’s domestic politics and African conflicts.  Hamilton thoughtfully probes the limits of

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A Response to Sean Brooks’s review of Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics and the War on Terror, in SAIS Review vol. XXIX no. 2 (Summer–Fall 2009) Hardly any academic journal that I know of would knowingly invite an employee of

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Sean Brooks has published a three-part review of Mahmood Mamdani’s Saviors and Survivors. The text is available here. The essay reflects the author’s views and not necessarily those of the Save Darfur Coalition.

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As an eighth-grader learning about American slavery, I had a fantasy. I imagined that some elite Marines and I could outfit ourselves in the latest combat gear and travel back in time to the year 1820. Once we arrived in

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In writing Saviors and Survivors Mahmood Mamdani has painstakingly removed the activist smokescreen that has clouded and confused the tragedy of Darfur. His book is a work of serious and authentic scholarship but more than that it reflects an act

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III. The Mbeki Mission and the Way Forward Mamdani is right on target in his criticism of the Save Darfur tendency to offer simplistic solutions and manifesting misguided belligerence and a blind belief in the virtues of aggressive external intervention,

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II. The State, War and Sudanese Identity Mamdani has in fact written not one book, but several. His attack on the enthusiastic but misinformed international response to the Darfur crisis is the first book. His tracing of the deep roots

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I. Recolonisation without Responsibility As many commentators have already pointed out, Mahmood Mamdani’s recent book, Saviors and Survivors has almost single-handedly shifted the debate on Darfur from a monologue (or a series of rival monologues) into a (very heated) dialogue.

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Saviors and Survivors became instantly controversial, probably more from the Darfur context and conflict it seeks to address than for its detailed scholarship and extensive research. Mamdani’s book is nonetheless an important work. It is well known that the author

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