The promise of a borderless world : diaspora, nativism, and the Kenyan Somali population (1890-2010)

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Abstract: This dissertation examines the intellectual and political strategies of the Kenyan branch of the Somali diaspora (a population comprised of the Isaaq and Harti Somalis, who originate from British Somaliland and Aden, and the nomadic Somali-speaking people, who inhabit the borderlands of Kenya, Ethiopia, and Somalia). This projects analyzes how the political strategies of Kenyan Somali traders, migrants, nomads, and elites evolved and came into crisis during three pivotal moments: the shift towards formal empire in the late nineteenth century; the transition from empire to nationalism in the 1950s and 60s; and the move in the 1990s towards political and economic liberalization, which accompanied the collapse of the Somali state. I argue that historically specific, non-Western traditions of trans-nationalism have challenged and continue to challenge the hegemony of the nation-state.

Type of resource	text
Form	electronic; electronic resource; remote
Extent	1 online resource.
Publication date	2013
Issuance	monographic
Language	English

Associated with	Weitzberg, Keren
Associated with	Stanford University, Department of History.
Primary advisor	Hanretta, Sean, 1972-
Thesis advisor	Hanretta, Sean, 1972-
Thesis advisor	Parsons, Timothy, 1962-
Thesis advisor	Roberts, Richard, active 1899
Advisor	Parsons, Timothy, 1962-
Advisor	Roberts, Richard, active 1899

Genre	Theses

Statement of responsibility	Keren Weitzberg.
Note	Submitted to the Department of History.
Thesis	Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2013.
Location	electronic resource

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