Clan Cleansing in Somalia - The Ruinous Legacy of 1991

Lidwien Kapteijns is Kendall Hodder Professor of History at Wellesley College.

List of contents

Note on Transliteration

Introduction

Chapter 1. Speaking the Unspeakable: Somali Poets and Novelists on Civil War Violence

Chapter 2. Historical Background to the Violence of State Collapse

Chapter 3. Clan Cleansing in Mogadishu and Beyond

Chapter 4. The Why and How of Clan Cleansing: Political Objectives and Discursive Means

Timeline of Major Events

Notes

Glossary

Bibliography

Name Index

Subject Index

Acknowledgments

About the author

By Lidwien Kapteijns

Summary

Clan Cleansing in Somalia deals with the transformative violence that helped cause the collapse of the Somali state in 1991. Kapteijns argues that public acknowledgment of the clan cleansing of this period is indispensable to social and moral repair and to the critical memory work required from Somalis on all sides of this conflict.

Product details

• Authors: Lidwien Kapteijns
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.11.2014
• EAN: 9780812223194
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-2319-4
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights; Pennsylvania Studies in Human; Pennsylvania Studies in Human; Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education