Violent Politics and the Politics of Violence
The dissolution of the Somali nation-state
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2467455 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Catherine Besteman (Colby College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 579-596 |
| Publication date | 1996-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Ethnologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-0496 • E-ISSN: 1548-1425 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1525/ae.1996.23.3.02a00070 |
| OpenAlex | W2162082636 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 46 |
| References cited | 35 |
Somalia was one of the first states to crumble in the post-cold war era. This article undresses the image of Somalia as the one true nation-state in Africa, arguing that the political economy of class and regional dynamics underscored the dissolution of the Somali nation-state and that the cultural construction of racial stratification configured the patterning of violence. Explaining Somalia's dissolution is a contribution to the anthropological project of theorizing the global disintegration of nation-states. [violence, nation-states, class, race, segmentary lineages, Somalia
Development economics · Economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Race (biology · Sociology · Somali · State (computer science · African history and culture analysis · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Gender Studies · Law · Political Conflict and Governance
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Understanding Somali piracy through cognitive resources theory
Making Home in a Hostile Land
The Logic of Violence in Civil War
Our “Nation of Immigrants”
Translating Race across Time and Space
State and Clan Violence in Somalia
Unpacking Dietary Acculturation Among New Americans
Somalia
Aid and the Rise and Fall of Conflict in the Muslim World
Why Pirates Are Back
Limits to State‐Led Nation‐Building? An Eritrean Village Responds Selectively to the Plans of the Eritrean Government
On the transformation of warfare
Profiling the politically violent in Pakistan
The global political economy of social crisis
Primordialist Blinders
Building immigrant engagement practice in urban planning
A Response to Helander's Critique of “Violent Politics and the Politics of Violence”
Being and becoming a state
Power geometries of encampment. The reproduction of domination and marginality among Somali refugees in Kakuma
The Ontology of “Political Violence
Violences décrites
Many Somalia(s), multiple memories
In search of more than a state
The Anthropologist as Witness in Contemporary Regimes of Intervention
New" and "Old" Civil Wars
Systems-building before state-building
Collapse and cohesion
From Grievance to Greed in Somalia
What Came First, The Nation or the State? Political Process in the Comoro Islands
Political Economy and Robert Kaplan in Africa
Representing Violence and "Othering" Somalia
The Emperor's New Clothes Removed
A Head for an Eye
From 'Cultures of Fear and Terror' to the Normalization of Violence
Anthropology and Militarism
Commoners, Kings, and Subaltern
Modernity, Tradition and Nuances of Class in Lesotho
Steering Clear of the Dead
Embarking on an Anthropology of Removal
Circumcising Circumcision
These Somalis are not Somalis
From Pre-Colonial Past to the Post-Colonial Present
A modern history of Somalia
Somalia
The Struggle for Land in Southern Somalia
Historical Metaphors and Mythical Realities
Europe and the people without history
Ritual, politics, and power
The Shaping of Somali Society
Outline of a Theory of Practice
Kofyar Armed Conflict
Somalia
The Somali Challenge
The Origins of the Galla and somali
Bantu, Galla and Somali migrations in the Horn of africa
Imagined communities
Socialist Somalia
Discipline and Punish
Anti-Colonialism and Class Formation
The Political Economy of Military Rule in Somalia
The Material Roots of the Suspended African State
Destruction of State and Society in Somalia
Explaining the Present
Public History and Private Knowledge
The Illusion of Nath Agnation
The State and Rural Transformation in Northern Somalia, 1884-1986
States and Social Processes in Africa
Individualisation and the assault on customary tenure in Africa
Blood of the Leviathan
The emergence of land concentration in the West African savanna
Somalia and the Dissolution of the Nation-State 818-824
Lineage Theory
| Unique citing works | 46 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,53 |
| Citation span | 1996 - 2024 (29) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 46 |