Abstract
The UN Protection of Civilians sites in South Sudan were separated from adjacent towns by barbed wire fences, mounds, watchtowers and patrolling peacekeepers. Building on and contributing to recent legal geography scholarship on jurisdictions, we explore how legal norms, institutions and rivalrous claims of jurisdiction remake these places of protection and blur spatial boundaries by creating trails that entangle the worlds inside and outside of the sites. The article also provides an unusual example of a powerful public authority – the United Nations – resisting claims that they have jurisdiction. The article is based on qualitative research in Wau and Bentiu.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 43-60 |
| Journal | Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Early online date | 6 Jul 2023 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 6 Jul 2023 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:We are incredibly grateful to the interviewees who shared their stories with us, and for others who let us live among them. We are grateful for the support of the AHRC-FCDO funded Safety of Strangers (SoS) grant that funded both the empirical work and time for mentorship that accompanied the writing of this article.
Keywords
- Protection
- South Sudan
- jurisdiction
- law
- legal geography
- peacekeeping
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Law
- Political Science and International Relations
