Somalis: In Search of Nationhood, Statehood and Transnational Connections

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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