Somalis : in search of nationhood, statehood and transnational connections / A. Osman Farah.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Farah, A. Osman, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Somalia--Politics and government.

Somalia.

Horn of Africa--Politics and government.

Horn of Africa.

Somalia--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (262 pages)

Place of Publication:

London, England : Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd, 2016.

Summary:

Contemporary scholarship characterizes Somalia as a nation in search of statehood. The approach presupposes a homogenous cohesive nation and society- with considerable traditional democratic pastoralism. This book portrays a complex nation with multiple heterogeneous characteristics. This alternative approach reflects the socio-political and the historical formations, invention and possible reinvention of the society. The book aims beyond the nation state-centric analysis. Issues discussed include: - Conceptual socio-political transnational frame of development and statehood - Analytical frames resting on diverse cases of emerging transnational civic connections - Prospects for regional educational development - Countering transnational precarity (employment and residence uncertainties), political mobilization and extremism - Transnational efforts at state formation, power and justice ______ A. Osman Farah is an Assistant Professor at Aalborg University where he teaches Development, transnational relations, transnationalism, transnational NGOs, New-regionalism and transnational State formation. Dr. Farah is a co-founder of the Centre for Research and Integration in Denmark and North Eastern African-Nordic Network (NEANOR). He serves as an associate editor of the Somali Studies Journal and is also a member of the editorial board of a number of journals focusing on political development and political sociology. His latest books include: Transnational NGOs: Creative Connections of Development and Global Governance, Aalborg University Press, Denmark" (2014); A co-edited book on China-Africa Relations in an Era of Great Transformations (co-edited with LiXing, Ashgate Publishing: London UK 2013)" and Transnationalism and Civic Engagement: Diasporic Formation and Mobilization in Denmark and the UAE," Adonis & Abbey Publishers, London, UK (2012).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 20, 2017).

ISBN:

1-912234-76-9

OCLC:

1009332873