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ID193273
Title ProperSomalia's evolving political market place
Other Title Informationfrom famine and humanitarian crisis to permanent precarity
LanguageENG
AuthorJaspars, Susanne ;  Adan, Guhad M ;  Majid, Nisar
Summary / Abstract (Note)Somalia has a long history of famine and humanitarian crisis. This article focuses on the years 2008–2020, during which governance and aid practices changed substantially and which include three crisis periods. The article examines whether and how governance analysed as a political marketplace can help explain Somalia's repeated humanitarian crises and the manipulation of response. We argue that between 2008 and 2011 the political marketplace was a violent competitive oligopoly which contributed to famine, but that from 2012 a more collusive, informal political compact resulted in a status quo which avoided violent conflict or famine in 2017 and which functioned to keep external resources coming in. At the same time, this political arrangement benefits from the maintenance of a large group of displaced people in permanent precarity as a source of aid and labour.
`In' analytical NoteJournal of Modern African Studies Vol. 61, No.3; Sep 2023: p.343 - 366
Journal SourceJournal of Modern African Studies 2023-09 61, 3
Key WordsPolitics ;  Somalia ;  Governance ;  Displacement ;  Famine