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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... expatriates in Part 1 and Somalis in Part 5. My intent is for theory to inform the whole work; however, given the complicated nature of trying to describe, explain, question, and explore dissolution there is a wide range of material to ...
... expatriates in Part 1 and Somalis in Part 5. My intent is for theory to inform the whole work; however, given the complicated nature of trying to describe, explain, question, and explore dissolution there is a wide range of material to ...
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... 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 been forewarned, Mogadishu was immediately ...
... 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 been forewarned, Mogadishu was immediately ...
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... expatriates was that as soon as the $32 million American embassy compound was complete the Americans would be asked to leave Somalia and the president would move his entourage there.1 As for Somali enterprises geared to expatriates ...
... expatriates was that as soon as the $32 million American embassy compound was complete the Americans would be asked to leave Somalia and the president would move his entourage there.1 As for Somali enterprises geared to expatriates ...
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... expatriates would be able to tell, there were no sure signs that any significant percentage of the population was seeking a Western makeover. Perhaps this was simply a matter of finances. Nevertheless, as soon as most Somali men left ...
... expatriates would be able to tell, there were no sure signs that any significant percentage of the population was seeking a Western makeover. Perhaps this was simply a matter of finances. Nevertheless, as soon as most Somali men left ...
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... 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 to learn anything more than ...
... 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 to learn anything more than ...
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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