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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... Refugees USAID United States Agency for International Development use United Somali Congress USOMC United States Office for Military Cooperation WFP The World Food Program WSLF Western Somali Liberation Front Colonial Somailia.
... Refugees USAID United States Agency for International Development use United Somali Congress USOMC United States Office for Military Cooperation WFP The World Food Program WSLF Western Somali Liberation Front Colonial Somailia.
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... western expatriate still attached to CRDP in any way, although there were other expatriates working in the same building. This fact not only helped bring about my shift in focus but also changed people's interest in me. Most of these ...
... western expatriate still attached to CRDP in any way, although there were other expatriates working in the same building. This fact not only helped bring about my shift in focus but also changed people's interest in me. Most of these ...
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... Western, familiar, or comfortable, either culturally or materially, although the material setting was initially most obvious. To begin with, streets were unsigned and driving was a freefor-all. Municipal electricity was erratic and ...
... Western, familiar, or comfortable, either culturally or materially, although the material setting was initially most obvious. To begin with, streets were unsigned and driving was a freefor-all. Municipal electricity was erratic and ...
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... Western visitors and short-term contract workers. However, these same hotels were likely to be just as crowded with visiting Arabs and Somali businessmen— not just people on their way in or out of the expatriate community. The Maka was ...
... Western visitors and short-term contract workers. However, these same hotels were likely to be just as crowded with visiting Arabs and Somali businessmen— not just people on their way in or out of the expatriate community. The Maka was ...
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... Western vices (i.e., drinking), the Lido was still of a piece with the rest of older, downtown Mogadishu—crumbling stucco, pastel walls—while just past the storefronts and bars was the ocean, with simple wooden and fiberglass fishing ...
... Western vices (i.e., drinking), the Lido was still of a piece with the rest of older, downtown Mogadishu—crumbling stucco, pastel walls—while just past the storefronts and bars was the ocean, with simple wooden and fiberglass fishing ...
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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