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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... Somalia was dissolving. Finally, in the Conclusion (Part 6) I return to the question of Somalia as a state and Somalis as a nation—and to the accuracy or inaccuracy of the expatriate stance. But this book does not have to be read ...
... Somalia was dissolving. Finally, in the Conclusion (Part 6) I return to the question of Somalia as a state and Somalis as a nation—and to the accuracy or inaccuracy of the expatriate stance. But this book does not have to be read ...
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... Somalia's history is critical to understanding Somalis, Chapter 6 is unusually dense. I include it because I consider it illustrative, suggestive, and of potential value to Somaliists, but by design it does not have to be read. Finally ...
... Somalia's history is critical to understanding Somalis, Chapter 6 is unusually dense. I include it because I consider it illustrative, suggestive, and of potential value to Somaliists, but by design it does not have to be read. Finally ...
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... Somali culture, whether it was a tiger's eye necklace pieced together in Thailand or amber formerly worn by a Somali pastoralist. This is because, despite its catering to westerners and Somalis with Western vices (i.e., drinking), the ...
... Somali culture, whether it was a tiger's eye necklace pieced together in Thailand or amber formerly worn by a Somali pastoralist. This is because, despite its catering to westerners and Somalis with Western vices (i.e., drinking), the ...
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... Somali elite (and those Somalis expatriates might have had most in common with) from expatriate view. The Somali language, for most expatriates, was another barrier preventing the free flow of goodwill. Few expatriates made the attempt ...
... Somali elite (and those Somalis expatriates might have had most in common with) from expatriate view. The Somali language, for most expatriates, was another barrier preventing the free flow of goodwill. Few expatriates made the attempt ...
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... Somalis the way expatriates understood it. Because expatriates did not hear the terms Somalis used to describe or identify one another (which were often just as impersonal and sometimes insulting), they drew conclusions about the Somalis ...
... Somalis the way expatriates understood it. Because expatriates did not hear the terms Somalis used to describe or identify one another (which were often just as impersonal and sometimes insulting), they drew conclusions about the Somalis ...
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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