TRADE MAKES STATES – Governing the Greater Somali Economy

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0197746217
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0197746219
• Author: Tobias Hagmann, Finn Stepputat 

Trade Makes States highlights how trade and the circulation of goods are central to Somali societies, economies and politics. Drawing on multi-site research from across East Africa’s Somali-inhabited economic space-which includes areas of Kenya, Djibouti, Uganda and Ethiopia-this volume highlights the interconnection between trade and state-building after state collapse. It scrutinizes the “politics of circulation” between competing public administrations, which seek to generate revenue and to control infrastructures along major trade corridors.

Connecting classic debates on state formation with recent scholarship on logistics and cross-border trading, Trade Makes States argues that the facilitation and capture of commodity flows have been instrumental in making and unmaking states across the Somali territories. Aspiring state-builders are thus confronted with the challenge of governing the flow of goods in order to rule over lands and peoples.

The contributors to this volume draw attention to the ingenuities of transnational Somali markets, which often appear to be self-governed. Their dynamism and everyday administration by a host of actors provide important insights into contemporary state formation on the margins of global supply-chain capitalism.

Table of contents:

1 – Introduction: Trade and state formation in Somali East Africa and beyond
By Finn Stepputat and Tobias Hagmann
2 – Trust as social infrastructure in Somali trading networks
By Neil Carrier and Hannah Elliott
3 – War, peace and the circulation of mobile money across the Somali territories
By Gianluca Iazzolino and Nicole Stremlau
4 – The revival and re-embedding of Somali ports
By Finn Stepputat, Warsame Ahmed, Omer Qalombi, Simon Wallisch and Mahad Wasuge
5 – Governing marketplaces: self-regulation, stateness and materialities
By Fana Gebresenbet, Kirstine Strøsh Varming and Philemon Ng’asike Ong’ao
6 – Governing commodity flows in the Somali borderlands
By Asnake Kefale and Jacob Rasmussen
7 – Raising fiscal revenues: the political economy of Somali trade taxation
By Ahmed M. Musa, Kirstine S. Varming and Finn Stepputat
8 – Tilly in the tropics: trade and Somali state making
By Tobias Hagmann and Finn Stepputat

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