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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... 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 people ...
... 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 people ...
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... expatriate warning that if I learned Somali too quickly or too proficiently I would find myself with a oneway ticket out of the country. People knew of cases in which this had happened. Indeed, the one anthropologist who had worked for ...
... expatriate warning that if I learned Somali too quickly or too proficiently I would find myself with a oneway ticket out of the country. People knew of cases in which this had happened. Indeed, the one anthropologist who had worked for ...
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... Expatriates made it clear to everyone that they were frustrated, even it they could not really say why—whether to themselves (they no longer believed in development work at all) or to one another (since, although racist views did emerge ...
... Expatriates made it clear to everyone that they were frustrated, even it they could not really say why—whether to themselves (they no longer believed in development work at all) or to one another (since, although racist views did emerge ...
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... expatriate life. Full participation was also difficult because of the rigid social castes that existed within the U.S. ... expatriates I generally tried to keep my mouth shut and my ears open—the very method that could not work with ...
... expatriate life. Full participation was also difficult because of the rigid social castes that existed within the U.S. ... expatriates I generally tried to keep my mouth shut and my ears open—the very method that could not work with ...
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... expatriate and Somali experiences. In Part 1 Somalis are described as the expatriates regarded them: opportunists incapable of a functioning state. Part 2 explores how this state came about, what role westerners themselves played, and ...
... expatriate and Somali experiences. In Part 1 Somalis are described as the expatriates regarded them: opportunists incapable of a functioning state. Part 2 explores how this state came about, what role westerners themselves played, and ...
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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