The Undercurrents of State-Formation in Rural Somaliland: A Study of Gender and State-Making in the Somali margins
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The Undercurrents of State-Formation in Rural Somaliland : A Study of Gender and State-Making in the Somali margins. / Wolff, Toke Møldrup.
Det Teologiske Fakultet, Københavns Universitet, 2020. 236 p. (Publikationer fra Det Teologiske Fakultet; No. 84).Research output: Book/Report › Ph.D. thesis › Research
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TY - BOOK
T1 - The Undercurrents of State-Formation in Rural Somaliland
T2 - A Study of Gender and State-Making in the Somali margins
AU - Wolff, Toke Møldrup
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - This PhD thesis is a study of the ambivalent and dynamic relationships between central state authorities and customary authority in the rural margins of Somaliland. More concretely, the thesis explores how people residing in rural spaces engage in actions that have direct or indirect implications for wider state-formation processes. To fully uncover such dynamics, the study engageswith those local tensions and small-scale conflicts that encourage people to take on actions that are attractive to the state in its various forms. Somaliland is a strictly uneven society in terms of gender, and this unevenness is often found at the core of those local disputes that renegotiate local forms of order and authority. This study illustrates how customary perceptions of gender norms are linked to the expansion of the ‘reach’ of the state. Drawing on in-depth interviews, life-stories, and observations the thesis presents four case studies that together illustrate the multifarious dimensions and trajectories of state-formation. Thereby, this thesis contributes with much needed empiricalmaterial on rural Somaliland and makes theoretical contributions to existing scholarship on stateformation, hybridity, authority-making and their link to ideas and ideals of gender.
AB - This PhD thesis is a study of the ambivalent and dynamic relationships between central state authorities and customary authority in the rural margins of Somaliland. More concretely, the thesis explores how people residing in rural spaces engage in actions that have direct or indirect implications for wider state-formation processes. To fully uncover such dynamics, the study engageswith those local tensions and small-scale conflicts that encourage people to take on actions that are attractive to the state in its various forms. Somaliland is a strictly uneven society in terms of gender, and this unevenness is often found at the core of those local disputes that renegotiate local forms of order and authority. This study illustrates how customary perceptions of gender norms are linked to the expansion of the ‘reach’ of the state. Drawing on in-depth interviews, life-stories, and observations the thesis presents four case studies that together illustrate the multifarious dimensions and trajectories of state-formation. Thereby, this thesis contributes with much needed empiricalmaterial on rural Somaliland and makes theoretical contributions to existing scholarship on stateformation, hybridity, authority-making and their link to ideas and ideals of gender.
M3 - Ph.D. thesis
VL - 84
T3 - Publikationer fra Det Teologiske Fakultet
BT - The Undercurrents of State-Formation in Rural Somaliland
PB - Det Teologiske Fakultet, Københavns Universitet
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