Networks Of Dissolution: Somalia UndoneIn this penetrating and timely book, Anna Simons documents Somalia's impending slide toward anarchy. How do people react to a failing yet still repressive government? What do they do when the banks run out of cash? How do they cope with unprecedented uncertainty? These are some of the questions Simons addresses as she introduces the reader to Somalia's descent into dissolution from within the Somali capital of Mogadishu.Exploring the volatile mix of external interest in Somalia, internal politicking, and enduring social structure, she shows how cross-cultural misunderstanding and regroupment are key to explaining Somalia's breakdown at the national level. One aim of this book is to challenge broadly held assumptions about the content of nationalism, tribalism, and the state, as defined and debated by academics and as experienced by individuals. Another is to analyze the making of a pivotal moment in Somali history. Simons charts new ground in the study of the dissolution of a state at all levels, shuttling back and forth between micro and macro frames, historical and everyday practices, and expatriate and Somali experiences. |
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bureaucracy itself and that implicit in anything located in the Third World . That Somalis were in charge in Somalia only meant Somalis were blameable .
bureaucracy itself and that implicit in anything located in the Third World . That Somalis were in charge in Somalia only meant Somalis were blameable .
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... as a new nation , would have been so enthusiastically welcomed into the world fold of nations : with national form permitting access to international ...
... as a new nation , would have been so enthusiastically welcomed into the world fold of nations : with national form permitting access to international ...
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Of course , many of the expatriates ' assumptions about Islam came from the wider world and were assumptions they had brought with them to Somalia either ...
Of course , many of the expatriates ' assumptions about Islam came from the wider world and were assumptions they had brought with them to Somalia either ...
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Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The Hardship Post | 11 |
PART TWO HISTORIES | 29 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Networks Of Dissolution: Somalia Undone |
| Author | Anna Simons |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Avalon Publishing, 1995 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 11 Sep 2008 |
| ISBN | 0813325803, 9780813325804 |
| Length | 246 pages |
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