Networks of Dissolution: Somalia UndoneRoutledge, 2019 M03 13 - 256 pages In 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 Somal |
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... Meanwhile, how this book begins is how I believe dissolution begins— with misunderstanding. Expatriates in Somalia misunderstood Somalis, Somalis misunderstood one another, the West misperceived the "state" of Somalia, the regime in ...
... Meanwhile, how this book begins is how I believe dissolution begins— with misunderstanding. Expatriates in Somalia misunderstood Somalis, Somalis misunderstood one another, the West misperceived the "state" of Somalia, the regime in ...
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... meanwhile, is confirmed by testing this logic according to the information one gathers. But because this logic already informs one's view, of course it is what the information one gathers can't disconfirm. Logic also works to fill in ...
... meanwhile, is confirmed by testing this logic according to the information one gathers. But because this logic already informs one's view, of course it is what the information one gathers can't disconfirm. Logic also works to fill in ...
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... Meanwhile, the decision had already been made at USAID not to participate in Phase II. Consequently, rumors were rampant about just what and who Phase II would employ. So far only one of the expatriate experts, a Canadian botanist, was ...
... Meanwhile, the decision had already been made at USAID not to participate in Phase II. Consequently, rumors were rampant about just what and who Phase II would employ. So far only one of the expatriate experts, a Canadian botanist, was ...
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... Meanwhile, although the shirt in project focus may not have been wrong or mistaken given realities such as these, the fact that Phase II was purposely designed to veer away from the aims of Phase I was significant, with far different ...
... Meanwhile, although the shirt in project focus may not have been wrong or mistaken given realities such as these, the fact that Phase II was purposely designed to veer away from the aims of Phase I was significant, with far different ...
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Contents
PART TWO HISTORIES | |
PART THREE CHRONOLOGY 19881989 | |
PART FOUR PASTORAL IDEOLOGY AND URBAN | |
Pastoral Principles | |
Ties | |
Moralities | |
Tribalism | |
PART FIVE FAMILY TO FAMILY | |
A Rigorous Ending | |
No Ending | |
Bibliography | |
About the Book and Author | |
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