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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... reason that Somalis may have come across as so hard to deal with is that they were experiencing difficulties of their own. By 1989 (if not well before) the state was no longer working as many Somalis expected and would have wanted it to ...
... reason that Somalis may have come across as so hard to deal with is that they were experiencing difficulties of their own. By 1989 (if not well before) the state was no longer working as many Somalis expected and would have wanted it to ...
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... reasons for "why Somalia, why now"— structural, historical, global, regional, and local. The list could, and doubtless will, continue to go on through time. I try to unravel as many threads as possible. Nevertheless, it seems unclear in ...
... reasons for "why Somalia, why now"— structural, historical, global, regional, and local. The list could, and doubtless will, continue to go on through time. I try to unravel as many threads as possible. Nevertheless, it seems unclear in ...
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... reason why I could take such a different view was that my aim was not to goad Somalis into working, but rather to take advantage of their not working; I was happy to have them talk with me and went out of my way to talk with them. This ...
... reason why I could take such a different view was that my aim was not to goad Somalis into working, but rather to take advantage of their not working; I was happy to have them talk with me and went out of my way to talk with them. This ...
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... reasons, then, it became natural for expatriates to manage to ignore Somalis as individuals. Most expatriates, no matter what their nationality—U.S., British, German, Finnish— were living a "white" existence anyway, and it was this ...
... reasons, then, it became natural for expatriates to manage to ignore Somalis as individuals. Most expatriates, no matter what their nationality—U.S., British, German, Finnish— were living a "white" existence anyway, and it was this ...
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... reason. By contrast, expatriates in the late 1980s filled a much more ambiguous role, harbored much more ambivalent (if not cynical) feelings toward their jobs, and were far more sanguine and unconcerned about the future of a country ...
... reason. By contrast, expatriates in the late 1980s filled a much more ambiguous role, harbored much more ambivalent (if not cynical) feelings toward their jobs, and were far more sanguine and unconcerned about the future of a country ...
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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