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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... fact, the very notion that anarchy was finally on its way in Somalia convinced many expatriates that they had been right about Somalis all along. The subject of this book, then, is to determine to what extent they were, yet weren't ...
... fact, the very notion that anarchy was finally on its way in Somalia convinced many expatriates that they had been right about Somalis all along. The subject of this book, then, is to determine to what extent they were, yet weren't ...
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... fact not only helped bring about my shift in focus but also changed people's interest in me. Most of these people were young, male, university graduates— in their mid- to late 20s, largely unmarried, and, as young, unmarried recent ...
... fact not only helped bring about my shift in focus but also changed people's interest in me. Most of these people were young, male, university graduates— in their mid- to late 20s, largely unmarried, and, as young, unmarried recent ...
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... fact that these constraints operated on them as well as me led me to understand that situation, even if I could not know others. All too clearly I could witness and see growing frustration among my friends and acquaintances even if I ...
... fact that these constraints operated on them as well as me led me to understand that situation, even if I could not know others. All too clearly I could witness and see growing frustration among my friends and acquaintances even if I ...
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... fact" of July 14, 1989. On that particular Friday government troops opened fire as worshipers, whom they regarded (or were ordered to regard) as demonstrators, left the city's main mosques. Hundreds, possibly thousands, of people were ...
... fact" of July 14, 1989. On that particular Friday government troops opened fire as worshipers, whom they regarded (or were ordered to regard) as demonstrators, left the city's main mosques. Hundreds, possibly thousands, of people were ...
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... fact, was probably the finest town most could hope to ever see. In many ways Moagadishu can perhaps best be described as a city of walls, from police barriers on the outskirts of town, where the police and soldiers were armed, to ...
... fact, was probably the finest town most could hope to ever see. In many ways Moagadishu can perhaps best be described as a city of walls, from police barriers on the outskirts of town, where the police and soldiers were armed, to ...
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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