The Somali Challenge: From Catastrophe to Renewal?

Contents\nIllustrations\nAcknowledgments\nNote on Somali Orthography\nPart I Preliminaries\n1 Introduction and Overview\n2 On Providing for the Future\nPart 2 Livelihood and the Catastrophe\n3 Jilaal, Gu, Hagaa, and Der: Living with the Somali Land, and Living Well\n4 Empty Bowl: Agrarian Political Economy in Transition and the Crises of Accumulation\nPart 3 Governance, International Relations, and the Catastrophe\n5 The Curse of Allah: Civic Disembowelment and the Collapse of the State in Somalia\n6 Dealing with Disintegration: U.S. Assistance and the Somali State\n7 Crises on Multiple Levels: Somalia and the Horn of Africa\nPart 4 Culture and the Catastrophe\n8 Women and the Crisis of Communal Identity: The Cultural Construction of Gender in Somali History\n9 The Mirror of Culture: Somali Dissolution Seen Through Oral Expression\nAppendix: The Somali Challenge: Peace, Resources, and Reconstruction Conference Recommendations\nBibliography\nIndex\nAbout the Contributors\nAbout the Book