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 Somal |
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Mogadishu, the capital, was hot, remote, and woefully underdeveloped, and the Somalis were generally felt to be difficult to deal with. One reason that Somalis may have come across as so hard to deal with is that they were experiencing ...
Mogadishu, the capital, was hot, remote, and woefully underdeveloped, and the Somalis were generally felt to be difficult to deal with. One reason that Somalis may have come across as so hard to deal with is that they were experiencing ...
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Expatriates thus serve as our straw men for a much broader consideration of life for Somalis in Mogadishu on the cusp. Fieldwork in Somalia was conducted between November 1988 and November 1989. My original intention was to live with ...
Expatriates thus serve as our straw men for a much broader consideration of life for Somalis in Mogadishu on the cusp. Fieldwork in Somalia was conducted between November 1988 and November 1989. My original intention was to live with ...
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So that I could determine how some of those elders were viewing the present, one friend from CRDP provided me entrée to his "village," a neighborhood in Mogadishu adjacent to the central prison. However, entree did not mean I could ...
So that I could determine how some of those elders were viewing the present, one friend from CRDP provided me entrée to his "village," a neighborhood in Mogadishu adjacent to the central prison. However, entree did not mean I could ...
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It placed Mogadishu on a cusp: either things would get so bad that the place and populace would burst out of this temporary blister or people would become inured and callow—as has happened in so many other metropolises in the world.
It placed Mogadishu on a cusp: either things would get so bad that the place and populace would burst out of this temporary blister or people would become inured and callow—as has happened in so many other metropolises in the world.
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Whereas the vast majority of Mogadishu's Somali residents came to Mogadishu either from the bush or another (lesser) town, or were born in the capital, virtually all expatriates arrived in Mogadishu relatively effortlessly, by air.
Whereas the vast majority of Mogadishu's Somali residents came to Mogadishu either from the bush or another (lesser) town, or were born in the capital, virtually all expatriates arrived in Mogadishu relatively effortlessly, by air.
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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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Bibliographic information
| Title | Networks Of Dissolution: Somalia Undone |
| Author | Anna Simons |
| Publisher | Routledge, 2019 |
| ISBN | 0429720831, 9780429720833 |
| Length | 256 pages |
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