CFP: The Somali Territories and Somali Diaspora in the Modern World: Knowledge, Power, Practice
Harvard University
November 15, 2019
Somali Studies - born in the crucible of colonial rule in the Horn of Africa and crystallized as a field alongside Western interest in Somalia during the Cold War and after its state collapse - is currently experiencing a crisis of legitimacy. Whether it be state failure, humanitarian disaster, tribalism, or violence, issues affecting the Somalia and the broader Somali territories are entangled in global processes and structures beyond Somalis. Yet contemporary