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Resilience of a City at War: Territoriality, Civil Order and Economic Exchange in Mogadishu

In: African Urban Economies

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  • Roland Marchal

    (Center for International Studies and Research/National Center for Scientific Research (CERI/CNRS))

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Over the last three decades, African cities have displayed enormous resilience in the face of economic adversity. Mogadishu, the war-ravaged capital of Somalia, however, provides the most extreme example of resolve to carry on with daily life amidst material deprivation and extreme physical insecurity on the part of its residents. This chapter considers how this has been accomplished – how commodity and money supplies have prevailed and how the business class have surmounted, accommodated and sometimes capitalized on the anarchic vacuum in state power.

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  • Roland Marchal, 2006. "Resilience of a City at War: Territoriality, Civil Order and Economic Exchange in Mogadishu," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Deborah Fahy Bryceson & Deborah Potts (ed.), African Urban Economies, chapter 9, pages 207-229, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-52301-2_9
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230523012_9
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