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Get It While You Can: Governance between Wars in the Uganda-South Sudan Borderland

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“Why do you keep that back door of your office open?” The Ugandan immigration officer at the Oraba/Kaya border post grins knowingly. “You can see this bad and steep road we have here. Those big trucks for Sudan and Congo, some of them cannot stop. We hear a commotion; a truck horn is blowing, people shouting. Then we must run. They have crushed our office before”.

Cecilie Lanken Verma has contributed invaluable feedback on an early draft of this chapter and allowed me to use some ethnographic material, as well as two photographs from her own work in northern Uganda. Critical feedback from Kristof Titeca and the editors of this volume is also gratefully acknowledged. The fieldwork for this chapter was made possible by a research grant from the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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Zeller, W. (2013). Get It While You Can: Governance between Wars in the Uganda-South Sudan Borderland. In: Korf, B., Raeymaekers, T. (eds) Violence on the Margins. Palgrave Series in African Borderlands Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137333995_8

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