When the Merowe Dam was completed on the fourth cataract of the River Nile in Sudan in 2008, it began to flood a huge area of 476 km², which included large parts of the homeland of the Manasir people and 80 per cent of their farmland. Doubling Sudan’s electricity generation capacity, the dam also displaced 70,000 people, among them 30,000 Manasir, and significantly impaired regional livelihoods. Valerie Hänsch’s ethnography is not only an extremely detailed account of the classic narrative of the making of a sacrificial zone for “the common good” of national development, but also a unique description of the process itself from the perspective of the displaced people. She concentrates on the large majority of Manasir who opposed the state-sponsored resettlement programme in order to remain in their homeland, as close as possible to the river-turned-reservoir.

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书评：《 Vertreibung and Widerstand im sudanesischen Niltal》：《因果报应》和《 Versuch zu bleiben》

当2008年在苏丹尼罗河的第四个白内障上建成Merowe大坝时，它开始淹没476km²的广阔区域，其中包括Manasir人民的大部分家园和80％的农田。大坝使苏丹的发电能力翻了一番，还使70,000人流离失所，其中包括30,000 Manasir，并严重损害了区域生计。瓦莱丽·汉施（ValerieHänsch）的人种志不仅是对为国家发展的“共同利益”而建立牺牲区的经典叙述的极为详尽的论述，而且还是从流离失所者的角度对过程本身的独特描述。她专注于绝大多数的玛纳西尔（Manasir），他们反对国家资助的移民安置计划，以便继续留在自己的家园，