Willow Berridge
Biographic Data
| ID | 130144 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Willow Berridge |
| GIVEN NAMES | Willow |
| FAMILY NAME | Berridge |
| SIGNATURE | BERRIDGE W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newcastle University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7930-6106 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Perspectives on the African Union high level implementation panel in the Sudanese media, 2009–2019: Sovereignty and Its Uses
Al-Quwwat al-Musallaha: The Political and Social Impacts of a Military Newspaper
Containing Gender Outlaws, Stigmatizing the Left: Transphobia and Cisgenderism in the Thatcher-era Daily Mail (1979–1990)
This article analyses the formation of cisgenderist and transphobic discourses in the reporting of the Daily Mail during the Thatcher era (1979-1990). It explores the emergence of a discursive strategy that focused on the containment of forms of gender expression that the socially conservative newspaper saw as a threat to the normative understandings of gender that it cherished. At the same time, it discusses how the paper managed the tension bet…
Western Sudanese marginalization, coups in Khartoum and the structural legacies of colonial military divide and rule, 1924-present
This paper discusses the long-term history underpinning the tension between the "national" army and provincial "militias" that led to the outbreak of conflict in Sudan in April 2023. Sudan's British colonizers created the distinction between what would later become a professional military in the northern region of the country, and what were deemed as "tribal", irregular and ethnically defined forces elsewhere. The aspiring revolutionaries of the …
The "Civilizational Project" and the southern Sudanese Islamists: Between Assimilation and Exclusion
Drawing upon interviews and a variety of newspapers and other media associated with the Sudanese Islamic Movement, this article analyses historic developments in its strategy for the Islamization of the now independent region of southern Sudan with particular reference to the experience of members of the movement from that region. It identifies significant parallels between the colonial and Islamist designs for "civilizing" southern Sudanese, arg…
Briefing: The Uprising in Sudan
On 7 March 1985, the railway workers of Sudan’s north-eastern town of Atbara took to the streets to protest against the rise in the price of basic foods decreed by the regime of President Jafa’ar Nimeiri.1 These protests continued for two and a half weeks before the outbreak in Khartoum of the main Intifada, which toppled Nimeiri, his ruling party, and his main state security service. On 19 December 2018, similar protests against rising food pric…
Colonial education and the shaping of Islamism in Sudan, 1946–1956
This article assesses the role of British colonial education in Condominium Sudan in shaping the mindsets of Sudan’s first generation of Islamists between 1946 and 1956. Drawing on post-colonial theorists such as Nandy and Bhabha, it contends that the experiences of the pioneers of Sudan’s Islamic movement at institutions such as Gordon Memorial College and Hantoub Secondary School moulded their understandings of both ‘modernity’ and ‘tradition’.…
Noah Salomon. For Love of the Prophet: An Ethnography of Sudan’s Islamic State
Noah Salomon’s For Love of the Prophet: An Ethnography of Sudan’s Islamic State makes a number of important contributions to the literature on political and religious life in Sudan as well as to the broader literature on the current Islamist wave. One of this book’s core strengths is that it is based on many years of in-depth field research—from 2003 to 2015, particularly between 2003 and 2007—and effectively deploys information gleaned from a ra…
Hasan al-Turabi: Islamist Politics and Democracy in Sudan
Hasan al-Turabi (1932–2016) was seen as one of the most influential figures in modern Sudanese history and politics. This book, based on extensive research and a thorough analysis of al-Turabi's own writings, provides a comprehensive study of the upbringing, ideas and political career of the Islamist intellectual and political leader. Balancing hostile and favourable accounts of al-Turabi, it challenges assumptions of the 'Marxist' or 'Fascist' d…
The Battle of Sha’iba, 1915: Ottomanism, British Imperialism and Shia Religious Activism during the Mesopotamian Campaign
This article analyses relations among the Ottoman Empire, British imperialism and Shia religious proto-nationalism in the period before and after the battle of Sha’iba of 1915, one of the pivotal engagements of the Mesopotamian campaign. It illustrates how the narrow victory of the British at the battle led them to draw a number of over-optimistic conclusions regarding their role in Iraq and their ability to co-opt the Arabs of the province again…
The frailties of prisons in post-colonial Sudan: From rehabilitation to retribution, 1956–1989
This article examines the slow eclipse of the rehabilitative ideal within the Sudanese prison system in the period from independence in 1956 till the removal of the third parliamentary regime in 1989. It contends that Jacfar Numayri's ‘Islamization’ of the criminal and penal system in 1983, which has been interpreted by some as an act of religious revival aiming to replace a series of externally imposed and European laws, cannot be understood pur…
Omar al-Bashir and Africa's longest war
The blurb of this text describes it as being simultaneously the ‘first authoritative biography’ of Sudan's much-maligned President Umar al-Bashir as well as a ‘comprehensive military history of Sudan’. This unusual combination leads to something of a hotchpotch structure. Chapters 1 to 3, which act as a potted military and political history of Sudan up until 1989, are evidently not rooted in original research and are marred by a number of tangent…
Imperialist and Nationalist Voices in the Struggle for Egyptian independence, 1919–22
This article explores the role of both pro-nationalist and pro-imperialist voices in Egypt and Britain during the Egyptian revolution of 1919. In doing so, it criticises Edward Said's assumption that the ‘Orientalist’ voice of the British imperialists was integral and unchallenged by demonstrating the extent to which left-wing MPs in the House of Commons were able to air the views of the Egyptian nationalists in the British political scene. It in…
The Ambiguous Role of the Popular, Society and Public Order Police in Sudan, 1983–2011
This article addresses a number of obscurities surrounding the role of the various Sudanese police units often referred to as the ‘religious police’ or ‘morality police’. These include the Popular Police, Society Police and Public Order Police. Although these units have often been analysed as agents of ‘Arabization’, ‘Islamization’ and the cultural domination of peripheral groups by the hegemonic northern riverain faction within the state, this a…
Guarding the Guards”: The Failure of the Colonial State to Govern Police Violence in Sudan, ca. 1922–1956
This article explores the nature and causes of police violence in Condominium Sudan. It contends that rather than demonstrating the sheer strength of the British colonial state and its dhtance from Sudanese society, police violence provided evidence of its weakness, its limited technical capacity, and its general social porosity. The British administration was unable or unwilling to develop a systematically regulated and heavily institutionalized…
Guarding the Guards: The Failure of the Colonial State to Govern Police Violence in Sudan, ca. 1922-1956
This article explores the nature and causes of police violence in Condominium Sudan. It contends that rather than demonstrating the sheer strength of the British colonial state and its distance from Sudanese society, police violence provided evidence of its weakness, its limited technical capacity, and its general social porosity. The British administration was unable or unwilling to develop a systematically regulated and heavily institutionalize…
Nests of criminals: Policing in the peri-urban regions of Northern Sudan, 1964-1989
This article focuses on the strategies adopted by the Sudanese police in dealing with migration from Sudan's rural peripheries to the central urban riverain areas of Sudan, in particular Khartoum. It contends that police policy in these regions demonstrated the limited governmental ambitions of the Sudanese state and its inability, or unwillingness, to individuate its population. It thus shifts the focus of analysis away from debates which emphas…
Ambivalent ideologies and the limitations of the colonial prison in Sudan, 1898-1956
This article investigates the failure of the colonial state in Sudan to establish an extensive and reformative prison system according to the European ideal. It attributes this failure not just to the limited material resources of the colonial state but to its own internal divisions and ambivalent attitude towards the notion of a reformative penal project. This mirrored the state's ambivalent attitude toward other forms of development, education …
What the Men are Crying Out for is Leadership’: The Khartoum Police Strike of 1951 and the Battle for Administrative Control
The British administrative elite in Sudan represented the Khartoum Police Strike of 1951 as a ‘mutiny’, the result of a combination of both outside provocation and of the character failings of both Sudanese policemen and their British officers. This article will demonstrate that these convenient interpretations concealed a series of wider tensions within the colonial state itself, between modernising legal professionals and colonial administrator…
Object Lessons in Violence: The rationalities and irrationalities of urban struggle during the Egyptian Revolution of 1919
Object Lessons in Violence:The rationalities and irrationalities of urban struggle during the Egyptian Revolution of 1919 W.J. Berridge Introduction "From a collection of reasonable individuals, a crowd can quickly become a solid, united mass, capable of any violence and reckless of the consequences."2 The words of Thomas Russell, the commandant of the Cairo police at the time of the Egyptian revolution of 1919, echoed the ideas of contemporary c…
What the Men are Crying Out for is Leadership’: The Khartoum Police Strike of 1951 and the Battle for Administrative Control
The British administrative elite in Sudan represented the Khartoum Police Strike of 1951 as a ‘mutiny’, the result of a combination of both outside provocation and of the character failings of both Sudanese policemen and their British officers. This article will demonstrate that these convenient interpretations concealed a series of wider tensions within the colonial state itself, between modernising legal professionals and colonial administrator…
Briefing: The Uprising in Sudan
On 7 March 1985, the railway workers of Sudan’s north-eastern town of Atbara took to the streets to protest against the rise in the price of basic foods decreed by the regime of President Jafa’ar Nimeiri.1 These protests continued for two and a half weeks before the outbreak in Khartoum of the main Intifada, which toppled Nimeiri, his ruling party, and his main state security service. On 19 December 2018, similar protests against rising food pric…
Nests of criminals: Policing in the peri-urban regions of Northern Sudan, 1964-1989
This article focuses on the strategies adopted by the Sudanese police in dealing with migration from Sudan's rural peripheries to the central urban riverain areas of Sudan, in particular Khartoum. It contends that police policy in these regions demonstrated the limited governmental ambitions of the Sudanese state and its inability, or unwillingness, to individuate its population. It thus shifts the focus of analysis away from debates which emphas…
Ambivalent ideologies and the limitations of the colonial prison in Sudan, 1898-1956
This article investigates the failure of the colonial state in Sudan to establish an extensive and reformative prison system according to the European ideal. It attributes this failure not just to the limited material resources of the colonial state but to its own internal divisions and ambivalent attitude towards the notion of a reformative penal project. This mirrored the state's ambivalent attitude toward other forms of development, education …
The frailties of prisons in post-colonial Sudan: From rehabilitation to retribution, 1956–1989
This article examines the slow eclipse of the rehabilitative ideal within the Sudanese prison system in the period from independence in 1956 till the removal of the third parliamentary regime in 1989. It contends that Jacfar Numayri's ‘Islamization’ of the criminal and penal system in 1983, which has been interpreted by some as an act of religious revival aiming to replace a series of externally imposed and European laws, cannot be understood pur…
Western Sudanese marginalization, coups in Khartoum and the structural legacies of colonial military divide and rule, 1924-present
This paper discusses the long-term history underpinning the tension between the "national" army and provincial "militias" that led to the outbreak of conflict in Sudan in April 2023. Sudan's British colonizers created the distinction between what would later become a professional military in the northern region of the country, and what were deemed as "tribal", irregular and ethnically defined forces elsewhere. The aspiring revolutionaries of the …
The "Civilizational Project" and the southern Sudanese Islamists: Between Assimilation and Exclusion
Drawing upon interviews and a variety of newspapers and other media associated with the Sudanese Islamic Movement, this article analyses historic developments in its strategy for the Islamization of the now independent region of southern Sudan with particular reference to the experience of members of the movement from that region. It identifies significant parallels between the colonial and Islamist designs for "civilizing" southern Sudanese, arg…
Colonial education and the shaping of Islamism in Sudan, 1946–1956
This article assesses the role of British colonial education in Condominium Sudan in shaping the mindsets of Sudan’s first generation of Islamists between 1946 and 1956. Drawing on post-colonial theorists such as Nandy and Bhabha, it contends that the experiences of the pioneers of Sudan’s Islamic movement at institutions such as Gordon Memorial College and Hantoub Secondary School moulded their understandings of both ‘modernity’ and ‘tradition’.…
The Ambiguous Role of the Popular, Society and Public Order Police in Sudan, 1983–2011
This article addresses a number of obscurities surrounding the role of the various Sudanese police units often referred to as the ‘religious police’ or ‘morality police’. These include the Popular Police, Society Police and Public Order Police. Although these units have often been analysed as agents of ‘Arabization’, ‘Islamization’ and the cultural domination of peripheral groups by the hegemonic northern riverain faction within the state, this a…
What the Men are Crying Out for is Leadership’: The Khartoum Police Strike of 1951 and the Battle for Administrative Control
The British administrative elite in Sudan represented the Khartoum Police Strike of 1951 as a ‘mutiny’, the result of a combination of both outside provocation and of the character failings of both Sudanese policemen and their British officers. This article will demonstrate that these convenient interpretations concealed a series of wider tensions within the colonial state itself, between modernising legal professionals and colonial administrator…
Object Lessons in Violence: The rationalities and irrationalities of urban struggle during the Egyptian Revolution of 1919
Object Lessons in Violence:The rationalities and irrationalities of urban struggle during the Egyptian Revolution of 1919 W.J. Berridge Introduction "From a collection of reasonable individuals, a crowd can quickly become a solid, united mass, capable of any violence and reckless of the consequences."2 The words of Thomas Russell, the commandant of the Cairo police at the time of the Egyptian revolution of 1919, echoed the ideas of contemporary c…
Guarding the Guards”: The Failure of the Colonial State to Govern Police Violence in Sudan, ca. 1922–1956
This article explores the nature and causes of police violence in Condominium Sudan. It contends that rather than demonstrating the sheer strength of the British colonial state and its dhtance from Sudanese society, police violence provided evidence of its weakness, its limited technical capacity, and its general social porosity. The British administration was unable or unwilling to develop a systematically regulated and heavily institutionalized…
Guarding the Guards: The Failure of the Colonial State to Govern Police Violence in Sudan, ca. 1922-1956
This article explores the nature and causes of police violence in Condominium Sudan. It contends that rather than demonstrating the sheer strength of the British colonial state and its distance from Sudanese society, police violence provided evidence of its weakness, its limited technical capacity, and its general social porosity. The British administration was unable or unwilling to develop a systematically regulated and heavily institutionalize…
Nests of criminals: Policing in the peri-urban regions of Northern Sudan, 1964-1989
This article focuses on the strategies adopted by the Sudanese police in dealing with migration from Sudan's rural peripheries to the central urban riverain areas of Sudan, in particular Khartoum. It contends that police policy in these regions demonstrated the limited governmental ambitions of the Sudanese state and its inability, or unwillingness, to individuate its population. It thus shifts the focus of analysis away from debates which emphas…
Ambivalent ideologies and the limitations of the colonial prison in Sudan, 1898-1956
This article investigates the failure of the colonial state in Sudan to establish an extensive and reformative prison system according to the European ideal. It attributes this failure not just to the limited material resources of the colonial state but to its own internal divisions and ambivalent attitude towards the notion of a reformative penal project. This mirrored the state's ambivalent attitude toward other forms of development, education …
The Ambiguous Role of the Popular, Society and Public Order Police in Sudan, 1983–2011
This article addresses a number of obscurities surrounding the role of the various Sudanese police units often referred to as the ‘religious police’ or ‘morality police’. These include the Popular Police, Society Police and Public Order Police. Although these units have often been analysed as agents of ‘Arabization’, ‘Islamization’ and the cultural domination of peripheral groups by the hegemonic northern riverain faction within the state, this a…
Imperialist and Nationalist Voices in the Struggle for Egyptian independence, 1919–22
This article explores the role of both pro-nationalist and pro-imperialist voices in Egypt and Britain during the Egyptian revolution of 1919. In doing so, it criticises Edward Said's assumption that the ‘Orientalist’ voice of the British imperialists was integral and unchallenged by demonstrating the extent to which left-wing MPs in the House of Commons were able to air the views of the Egyptian nationalists in the British political scene. It in…
The frailties of prisons in post-colonial Sudan: From rehabilitation to retribution, 1956–1989
This article examines the slow eclipse of the rehabilitative ideal within the Sudanese prison system in the period from independence in 1956 till the removal of the third parliamentary regime in 1989. It contends that Jacfar Numayri's ‘Islamization’ of the criminal and penal system in 1983, which has been interpreted by some as an act of religious revival aiming to replace a series of externally imposed and European laws, cannot be understood pur…
Omar al-Bashir and Africa's longest war
The blurb of this text describes it as being simultaneously the ‘first authoritative biography’ of Sudan's much-maligned President Umar al-Bashir as well as a ‘comprehensive military history of Sudan’. This unusual combination leads to something of a hotchpotch structure. Chapters 1 to 3, which act as a potted military and political history of Sudan up until 1989, are evidently not rooted in original research and are marred by a number of tangent…
Hasan al-Turabi: Islamist Politics and Democracy in Sudan
Hasan al-Turabi (1932–2016) was seen as one of the most influential figures in modern Sudanese history and politics. This book, based on extensive research and a thorough analysis of al-Turabi's own writings, provides a comprehensive study of the upbringing, ideas and political career of the Islamist intellectual and political leader. Balancing hostile and favourable accounts of al-Turabi, it challenges assumptions of the 'Marxist' or 'Fascist' d…
The Battle of Sha’iba, 1915: Ottomanism, British Imperialism and Shia Religious Activism during the Mesopotamian Campaign
This article analyses relations among the Ottoman Empire, British imperialism and Shia religious proto-nationalism in the period before and after the battle of Sha’iba of 1915, one of the pivotal engagements of the Mesopotamian campaign. It illustrates how the narrow victory of the British at the battle led them to draw a number of over-optimistic conclusions regarding their role in Iraq and their ability to co-opt the Arabs of the province again…
Colonial education and the shaping of Islamism in Sudan, 1946–1956
This article assesses the role of British colonial education in Condominium Sudan in shaping the mindsets of Sudan’s first generation of Islamists between 1946 and 1956. Drawing on post-colonial theorists such as Nandy and Bhabha, it contends that the experiences of the pioneers of Sudan’s Islamic movement at institutions such as Gordon Memorial College and Hantoub Secondary School moulded their understandings of both ‘modernity’ and ‘tradition’.…
Noah Salomon. For Love of the Prophet: An Ethnography of Sudan’s Islamic State
Noah Salomon’s For Love of the Prophet: An Ethnography of Sudan’s Islamic State makes a number of important contributions to the literature on political and religious life in Sudan as well as to the broader literature on the current Islamist wave. One of this book’s core strengths is that it is based on many years of in-depth field research—from 2003 to 2015, particularly between 2003 and 2007—and effectively deploys information gleaned from a ra…
Briefing: The Uprising in Sudan
On 7 March 1985, the railway workers of Sudan’s north-eastern town of Atbara took to the streets to protest against the rise in the price of basic foods decreed by the regime of President Jafa’ar Nimeiri.1 These protests continued for two and a half weeks before the outbreak in Khartoum of the main Intifada, which toppled Nimeiri, his ruling party, and his main state security service. On 19 December 2018, similar protests against rising food pric…
The "Civilizational Project" and the southern Sudanese Islamists: Between Assimilation and Exclusion
Drawing upon interviews and a variety of newspapers and other media associated with the Sudanese Islamic Movement, this article analyses historic developments in its strategy for the Islamization of the now independent region of southern Sudan with particular reference to the experience of members of the movement from that region. It identifies significant parallels between the colonial and Islamist designs for "civilizing" southern Sudanese, arg…
Containing Gender Outlaws, Stigmatizing the Left: Transphobia and Cisgenderism in the Thatcher-era Daily Mail (1979–1990)
This article analyses the formation of cisgenderist and transphobic discourses in the reporting of the Daily Mail during the Thatcher era (1979-1990). It explores the emergence of a discursive strategy that focused on the containment of forms of gender expression that the socially conservative newspaper saw as a threat to the normative understandings of gender that it cherished. At the same time, it discusses how the paper managed the tension bet…
Western Sudanese marginalization, coups in Khartoum and the structural legacies of colonial military divide and rule, 1924-present
This paper discusses the long-term history underpinning the tension between the "national" army and provincial "militias" that led to the outbreak of conflict in Sudan in April 2023. Sudan's British colonizers created the distinction between what would later become a professional military in the northern region of the country, and what were deemed as "tribal", irregular and ethnically defined forces elsewhere. The aspiring revolutionaries of the …
Perspectives on the African Union high level implementation panel in the Sudanese media, 2009–2019: Sovereignty and Its Uses
Al-Quwwat al-Musallaha: The Political and Social Impacts of a Military Newspaper
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