Somalis

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

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A. Osman Farah is an Assistant Professor at Aalborg University where he teaches Development, transnational relations, transnationalism, transnational NGOs, New-regionalism and transnational State formation. Dr. Farah is a co-founder of the Centre for Research and Integration in Denmark and North Eastern African-Nordic Network (NEANOR). He serves as an associate editor of the Somali Studies Journal and is also a member of the editorial board of a number of journals focusing on political development and political sociology. His latest books include: Transnational NGOs: Creative Connections of Development and Global Governance, Aalborg University Press, Denmark" (2014); A co-edited book on China-Africa Relations in an Era of Great Transformations (co-edited with LiXing, Ashgate Publishing: London UK 2013)" and Transnationalism and Civic Engagement: Diasporic Formation and Mobilization in Denmark and the UAE," Adonis & Abbey Publishers, London, UK (2012).