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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... designed to halt desertification and improve production in the central rangelands (a land area comprising one-fifth of the country). Once it became apparent that neither I nor many of the CRDP employees would be able to.
... designed to halt desertification and improve production in the central rangelands (a land area comprising one-fifth of the country). Once it became apparent that neither I nor many of the CRDP employees would be able to.
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... able to succeed without having to pay attention to clannism or clan affiliations; thus, even to themselves they represented the potential of meritocracy. However, Somalia was more and more obviously not a meritocracy. In no small part ...
... able to succeed without having to pay attention to clannism or clan affiliations; thus, even to themselves they represented the potential of meritocracy. However, Somalia was more and more obviously not a meritocracy. In no small part ...
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... able to find women and men who, as long as he was there, were willing to talk with me about their lives. I came to know and visit Somalis in other locales as well— tailors and their customers, local restaurateurs, watchmen, and others ...
... able to find women and men who, as long as he was there, were willing to talk with me about their lives. I came to know and visit Somalis in other locales as well— tailors and their customers, local restaurateurs, watchmen, and others ...
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... able to decipher the topic of a conversation, I was often mistaken, not because I did not understand the terms being used but because they were euphemisms used purposely to throw off eavesdroppers. Consequently, perhaps due to the ease ...
... able to decipher the topic of a conversation, I was often mistaken, not because I did not understand the terms being used but because they were euphemisms used purposely to throw off eavesdroppers. Consequently, perhaps due to the ease ...
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... able to plumb for a certain depth of understanding in this work even if I cannot always reveal specific knowledge. This is also the case in my consideration of U.S. (as well as other English-speaking people's) attitudes. Expatriates ...
... able to plumb for a certain depth of understanding in this work even if I cannot always reveal specific knowledge. This is also the case in my consideration of U.S. (as well as other English-speaking people's) attitudes. Expatriates ...
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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