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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... town of Bulo Burte and one of its nearby villages. However, I was unable to return to either location because of general unrest. As a result, my research focus had to shift. Throughout my stay in Somalia I was affiliated with the ...
... town of Bulo Burte and one of its nearby villages. However, I was unable to return to either location because of general unrest. As a result, my research focus had to shift. Throughout my stay in Somalia I was affiliated with the ...
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... town, or were born in the capital, virtually all expatriates arrived in Mogadishu relatively effortlessly, by air. Inevitably, no matter where expatriates had previously been posted, what their country of origin was, or how they had ...
... town, or were born in the capital, virtually all expatriates arrived in Mogadishu relatively effortlessly, by air. Inevitably, no matter where expatriates had previously been posted, what their country of origin was, or how they had ...
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... 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 compound walls surrounding all elite ...
... 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 compound walls surrounding all elite ...
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... town, the lack and unreliability of telephones in Mogadishu meant that anyone who needed to speak with someone else generally had to physically visit or track them down. This made for unpredictable absences. As a result, many staff ...
... town, the lack and unreliability of telephones in Mogadishu meant that anyone who needed to speak with someone else generally had to physically visit or track them down. This made for unpredictable absences. As a result, many staff ...
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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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