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Chris Vaughan: 'Demonstrating the machine guns’: rebellion, counter-insurgency and state formation in colonial Darfur

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Seminar
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Wednesday 14 March 2012
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Location: Room 11.13 Social Sciences Building

Dr Chris Vaughan teaches African history at the Universities of Liverpool and Durham, and taught in POLIS at Leeds in the first semester of the current academic year. He completed his doctorate on the history of Darfur under British colonial rule at Durham in 2011.

Chris's research is particularly focussed on examining the character of the colonial state, and assessing the degree to which colonial rule had a transformative effect on African societies and politics. His PhD examines colonial violence, the role of ‘traditional’ authorities, and the imposition of territorial boundaries in Darfur.