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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... individuals. Before Somalia's dramatic emergence in 1992 as exemplar of anarchy, starvation, and famine, it was little known and hard to study. The government did not welcome journalists and it did not encourage visits by errant social ...
... individuals. Before Somalia's dramatic emergence in 1992 as exemplar of anarchy, starvation, and famine, it was little known and hard to study. The government did not welcome journalists and it did not encourage visits by errant social ...
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... individuals. Interviews were conducted in Somali and English and were rarely dyadic. Not only did I generally have a friend to assist me with the language but friends or family members of the interviewees often listened in and ...
... individuals. Interviews were conducted in Somali and English and were rarely dyadic. Not only did I generally have a friend to assist me with the language but friends or family members of the interviewees often listened in and ...
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... individuals. Most expatriates, no matter what their nationality—U.S., British, German, Finnish— were living a "white" existence anyway, and it was this existence that attracted supplicants—a further cause for alienation.4 Most ...
... individuals. Most expatriates, no matter what their nationality—U.S., British, German, Finnish— were living a "white" existence anyway, and it was this existence that attracted supplicants—a further cause for alienation.4 Most ...
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... individual, which is what, in large part, inshallah was meant to acknowledge by many Somalis who used it as a closure in conversation. Expatriates thought that Somalis either actually believed Allah would intercede and provide—a ...
... individual, which is what, in large part, inshallah was meant to acknowledge by many Somalis who used it as a closure in conversation. Expatriates thought that Somalis either actually believed Allah would intercede and provide—a ...
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... individual offices equipped with desks, cabinets, and chairs, although it was rare to find only one person sitting in an office. Expatriates generally had a secretary, assistants, or counterparts crowded into their offices with them ...
... individual offices equipped with desks, cabinets, and chairs, although it was rare to find only one person sitting in an office. Expatriates generally had a secretary, assistants, or counterparts crowded into their offices with them ...
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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