TY - BOOK AU - Afrax,Maxamed D. AU - Kapteijns,Lidwien AU - Lyons,Terrence AU - Mirreh,Hassan A. AU - Razvson,David AU - Samatar,Abdi I. AU - Samatar,Ahmed I. AU - Wisner,Ben TI - The Somali Challenge: From Catastrophe to Renewal? SN - 9781555873639 PY - 2023///] CY - Boulder : PB - Lynne Rienner Publishers, KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African KW - bisacsh N1 - 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; restricted access N2 - A multifaceted inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the implosion and consequent breakdown of the state and society in Somalia UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781685856632 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781685856632 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781685856632/original ER -