Trade makes states : governing the greater Somali economy /

'Trade Makes States' highlights how trade and the circulation of goods are central to Somali societies, economies and politics. Drawing on multi-site research from across East Africa's Somali-inhabited economic space - which includes areas of Kenya, Djibouti, Uganda and Ethiopia - thi...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Hagmann, Tobias (Editor), Stepputat, Finn (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: La Vergne : Hurst Publishers, 2023.
Series:African arguments.
Subjects:
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Trade and state formation in Somali East Africa and beyond / Finn Stepputat and Tobias Hagmann
  • Trust as social infrastructure in Somali trading networks / Neil Carrier and Hannah Elliott
  • War, peace and the circulation of mobile money across the Somali territories / Gianluca Iazzolino and Nicole Stremlau
  • The revival and re-embedding of Somali ports / Finn Stepputat, Warsame Ahmed, Omer Qalombi, Simon Wallisch and Mahad Wasuge
  • Governing marketplaces: self-regulation, stateness and materialities / Fana Gebresenbet, Kirstine Strøh Varming and Philemon Ong'ao Ng'asike
  • Governing commodity flows in the Somali borderlands / Asnake Kefale and Jacob Rasmussen
  • Raising fiscal revenues: the political economy of Somali trade taxation / Ahmed M. Musa, Kirstine Strøh Varming and Finn Stepputat
  • Tilly in the tropics: trade and Somali state-making / Tobias Hagmann and Finn Stepputat
  • Afterword: Somalia, an economy with 'stateness' / Peter D. Little