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The Somali Challenge : From Catastrophe to Renewal? / ed. by Ahmed I. Samatar.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2023]Copyright date: ©1994Description: 1 online resource (297 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781555873639
  • 9781685856632
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Somali Orthography -- Part I Preliminaries -- 1 Introduction and Overview -- 2 On Providing for the Future -- Part 2 Livelihood and the Catastrophe -- 3 Jilaal, Gu, Hagaa, and Der: Living with the Somali Land, and Living Well -- 4 Empty Bowl: Agrarian Political Economy in Transition and the Crises of Accumulation -- Part 3 Governance, International Relations, and the Catastrophe -- 5 The Curse of Allah: Civic Disembowelment and the Collapse of the State in Somalia -- 6 Dealing with Disintegration: U.S. Assistance and the Somali State -- 7 Crises on Multiple Levels: Somalia and the Horn of Africa -- Part 4 Culture and the Catastrophe -- 8 Women and the Crisis of Communal Identity: The Cultural Construction of Gender in Somali History -- 9 The Mirror of Culture: Somali Dissolution Seen Through Oral Expression -- Appendix: The Somali Challenge: Peace, Resources, and Reconstruction Conference Recommendations -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Contributors -- About the Book
Summary: A multifaceted inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the implosion and consequent breakdown of the state and society in Somalia.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Somali Orthography -- Part I Preliminaries -- 1 Introduction and Overview -- 2 On Providing for the Future -- Part 2 Livelihood and the Catastrophe -- 3 Jilaal, Gu, Hagaa, and Der: Living with the Somali Land, and Living Well -- 4 Empty Bowl: Agrarian Political Economy in Transition and the Crises of Accumulation -- Part 3 Governance, International Relations, and the Catastrophe -- 5 The Curse of Allah: Civic Disembowelment and the Collapse of the State in Somalia -- 6 Dealing with Disintegration: U.S. Assistance and the Somali State -- 7 Crises on Multiple Levels: Somalia and the Horn of Africa -- Part 4 Culture and the Catastrophe -- 8 Women and the Crisis of Communal Identity: The Cultural Construction of Gender in Somali History -- 9 The Mirror of Culture: Somali Dissolution Seen Through Oral Expression -- Appendix: The Somali Challenge: Peace, Resources, and Reconstruction Conference Recommendations -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Contributors -- About the Book

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A multifaceted inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the implosion and consequent breakdown of the state and society in Somalia.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mai 2023)