| Description |
1 online resource (32 pages) |
| Series |
DIIS working paper ; 2017:12 |
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Govsea paper series |
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DIIS working paper ; 2017:12.
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Govsea paper series
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| Contents |
Abstract. -- Introduction. -- Beyond cosmopolitanism: theorizing port-making. -- Somalia and the Indian Ocean world. -- Benderbeyla: pirates, ambergris and sovereignty. -- Bosaso: nodes of cheap trade. -- Djibouti: sovereignty as a resource. -- Conclusion. -- References. -- Endnotes |
| Summary |
Locating itself within a series of port cities, this paper elaborates a port-centered view of polity, economy, and sociality in the Somali peninsula. The paper begins with a historical and theoretical overview of port cities before turning to a specific set of case studies from the three port cities of Benderbeyla, Bosaso, and Djibouti. The interplay between violence and regulation in channeling and re-channeling mobility within seemingly distinct spaces becomes thus apparent. The comparison of these port cities highlights different modes and scales of port-making. Benderbeyla port exemplifies a space from which global circulation is violently re-channeled, be it through the capture of ambergris or by piracy. Bosaso corresponds to a mode of port-making that is also framed by violence, but provides a safe and cheap haven for circulation. While both port cities have a relationship to regulation, trade and state-making do not fully overlap in the first two scales of port-making. Djibouti represents a third scale of port-making where sovereignty emerges as a resource in order to re-channel trade. Providing a corrective to the land-centered writing that has dominated Somali studies these port cities reveal a polity and sociality that emerge through claims over mobility as opposed to territory or population. In so doing this paper provides a new vantage point to understand the arrivals and departures that constitute everyday life in the Horn of Africa |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 31-32) |
| Notes |
"Funding for this research was provided by the Wenner Gren Foundation, Social Science Research Council and the National Science Foundation (#1559658) |
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Online resource; title from PDF cover page (DIIS, viewed January 8, 2018) |
| Subject |
Port cities -- Somalia
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Economic history.
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Port cities.
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| SUBJECT |
Somalia -- Economic conditions.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85124764
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| Subject |
Somalia.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Dansk institut for internationale studier, publisher.
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| ISBN |
9788776059040 |
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8776059049 |
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