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The Colonial Legacy in Somalia: Rome and Mogadishu: from Colonial Administration to Operation Restore Hope
02 Aug 1999-
TL;DR: In this paper, historical perspective on Italian Colonialism Italy and the Administration of Somalia: a Difficult Mandate AFIS: Two Difficult Tasks - Democratisation and Somalisation Co-operation and Diplomacy Mogadishu versus the World Conclusions Bibliography Index
Abstract: Foreword Preface Introduction Historical Perspective on Italian Colonialism Italy and the Administration of Somalia: a Difficult Mandate AFIS: Two Difficult Tasks - Democratisation and Somalisation Co-operation and Diplomacy Mogadishu versus the World Conclusions Bibliography Index
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TL;DR: The authors examines the new norms in bilateral, regional and international relations that evolved in the wake of the emergence of the Eritrean state which had successfully challenged the hegemonic claims of both the imperial and Afro-Marxist Ethiopian state.
Abstract: This article examines the new norms in bilateral, regional and international relations that evolved in the wake of the emergence of the Eritrean state which had successfully challenged the hegemonic claims of both the imperial and Afro-Marxist Ethiopian state. The analysis proceeds from a retelling of the events in 1998 which precipitated the break between the Ethiopian and Eritrean partners of the old alliance against the Mengistu regime, then examines the structural anomalies in the alliance and their consequences. The evidence examined here suggests that two inter-related phenomena help to shed light on the structural, historical and philosophical underpinnings of the 1998–2000 Ethio–Eritrean conflict: (1) the asymmetry of vision between diasporic and hegemonic states, leading to a clash of interests; (2) the failure of both post-war regimes to formalise their ‘understandings’ into formal treaties based on international law.As the two countries pursued different systems of economic and political governance, the cluster of informal understandings unravelled amidst conflicting interpretations of issues relating to sovereignty: territorial jurisdiction and citizenship. What emerges is a picture – seen from below rather than from above – of the norms and rules that govern the conduct of interstate relations between Africa's most recent and oldest sovereign states.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors have argued that Italian public memory is under the weight of an oppressive historical amnesia which seals off the country from its colonial past, and that the present reconfiguring of Italy's colonial memory conceals displacements and dislocations which are no less pervasive or disquieting.
Abstract: The essay intends to contribute to the current debate on the failure of Italian public memory to come to terms with its colonial past. Several authors have argued that Italian public memory is under the weight of an oppressive historical amnesia which seals off the country from its colonial past. Yet the present reconfiguring of Italy's colonial memory conceals displacements and dislocations which are no less pervasive or disquieting. Colonial memory in Italy may be described as a sort of ‘pendulum’ oscillating between an all-out desire to forget and the nostalgic recollection of a past which is selectively remembered and re-enacted to suit Italy's new role in the postcolonial age. Given its oscillating nature, colonial memory and its renewed positioning are like back-up files which can be accessed according to convenience or factuality. The recent influx of African migrants trying to break into the fortified European citadel offers an example of this process. As wave after wave of ex-colonial subjects es...
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...…prompted the Italian Foreign Ministry Under-Secretary of State, Laura Fincato, to call for an ‘international protectorate’ over the old colony, in the process receiving open support from Italy’s leading foreign affairs editorialist, Sergio Romano, in La Stampa (16 July1993; see Tripodi 1999: 11)....
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TL;DR: In this paper, the development of a kind of presidential war discourse in the post-Cold War era is discussed, and the reader is asked to recall the heritage of the form, so as to better identify its essential character and grapple with the cultural implications of its re-emergence.
Abstract: Bill Clinton's response to the Somalia situation demonstrates the development of a kind of presidential war discourse in the post‐Cold War era. Clinton's rhetoric hosts a re‐articulation of an image of an imperial savage, a primitive “other.” This form is contrasted with the image of the modern savage, another common construct used to represent American adversaries. In considering this rhetorical continuity, the reader is asked to recall the heritage of the form, so as to better identify its essential character and grapple with the cultural implications of its re‐emergence in the post‐Cold War era.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose an alternative concept to better grasp state trajectories, proposing an understanding of state developments in terms of institutional and identity standardization Rooted in existing accounts of state-making, the analytical prism of "rule standardization" is original in that it conceptually bridges the gap between statebuilding and nation-building as well as between statemaking and state-breaking.
Abstract: Having been top of the agenda for the past two decades, debates on state fragility have recently witnessed the emergence of pluralist concepts While the concept of ‘hybrid political orders’ has invigorated our thinking about fragile states, it yields to the fallacy that pluralism constitutes the birth certificate of statehood This article introduces an alternative concept to better grasp state trajectories, proposing an understanding of state developments in terms of institutional and identity standardization Rooted in existing accounts of state-making, the analytical prism of ‘rule standardization’ is original in that it conceptually bridges the gap between statebuilding and nation-building as well as between state-making and state-breaking Substantiating the theoretical discussion with three case studies from the Somali territories, the paper fundamentally proposes that what is required to sustain states should not be confused with what is required to initiate them
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...…with sweeping statements—failing to acknowledge the distinct trajectories prior to and after the ‘watershed event’ of the Ogadeen War of 1977/78 (Tripodi 1999, 1)— Mohamed Siyad Barre’s takeover has, at times, been portrayed as the beginning of the state’s collapse (e.g. Compagnon 1995, 428)....
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the need to rethink national culture and identity in a more diverse, inclusive, and anti-racist way, and argue that minority communities need to be considered not just as "topics" of cultural analysis but as audiences and cultural agents.
Abstract: Scrivere di Islam. Raccontare la diaspora (Writing About Islam. Narrating a Diaspora) is a meditation on our multireligious, multicultural, and multilingual reality. It is the result of a personal and collaborative exploration of the necessity to rethink national culture and identity in a more diverse, inclusive, and anti-racist way. The central part of this volume – both symbolically and physically – includes Shirin Ramzanali Fazel’s reflections on the discrimination of Muslims, and especially Muslim women, in Italy and the UK. Looking at school textbooks, newspapers, TV programs, and sharing her own personal experience, this section invites us to change the way Muslim immigrants are narrated in scholarly research and news reports. Most importantly, this section urges us to consider minorities not just as ‘topics’ of cultural analysis, but as audiences and cultural agents. Following Shirin’s invitation to question prevailing modes of representations of immigrants, the volume continues with a dialogue between the co-authors and discusses how collaboration can be a way to avoid reproducing a ‘colonial model’ of knowledge production, in which the white male scholar takes as object of analysis the work of an African female writer. The last chapter also asserts that immigration literature cannot be approached with the same expectations and questions readers would have when reading ‘canonised’ texts. A new critical terminology is needed in order to understand the innovative linguistic choices and narrative forms that immigrant writers have invented in order to describe a reality that has lacked representation or which has frequently been misrepresented, especially in the discourse around the contemporary Muslim diaspora.
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...Nonostante i crimini compiuti dagli italiani nelle colonie, dal 1950 al 1960 le Nazioni Unite hanno affidato l’Amministrazione Fiduciaria Italiana della Somalia (AFIS) all’ex paese colonizzatore, un caso unico nel panorama della decolonizzazione (Morone 2011; Tripodi 1999, 106-37)....
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