Local Self?Governance and the State in South Sudan: Studying Gendered Tenure Relations in Times of Uncertainty

<p>With governance increasingly regarded as co-governance, states’ capacity to steer, correct, and discipline a wide range of self-governing actors becomes crucial for effectiveness, efficiency, democracy. This article investigates that the relationship between formal institutions customary self-governance in areas limited statehood. In South Sudan, field land can be an area As relations are closely connected clan structures intra-familial relationships, norms enjoy great legitimacy important locus local dispute resolution. The Sudanese government has promulgated legal provisions equal rights property inheritance clash head-on with notions gender roles family preservation land. By focusing on case women’s combining literature study data from exploratory fieldwork two towns, this aims reflect cohabitation values role administrative systems, statehood, do play boundary setting self-governance.</p>