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Professor Jutta Bakonyi's Outputs (3)

Governing Endemic Crisis. Violence and Legitimacy in the Lives of Somalis (2018)
Book Chapter
Bakonyi, J. (2018). Governing Endemic Crisis. Violence and Legitimacy in the Lives of Somalis. In M. Keating, & M. Waldman (Eds.), War and peace in Somalia : national grievances, local conflict and Al-Shabaab (49-60). Hurst. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190947910.001.0001

This chapter builds on interviews with Somali migrants in Kenya. It explores how Somali citizens evaluate attempts to establish political authority in Somalia, and what aspects of these attempts they consider as legitimate. Against the context of ‘en... Read More about Governing Endemic Crisis. Violence and Legitimacy in the Lives of Somalis.

Seeing like Bureaucracies: Rearranging Knowledge and Ignorance in Somalia (2018)
Journal Article
Bakonyi, J. (2018). Seeing like Bureaucracies: Rearranging Knowledge and Ignorance in Somalia. International Political Sociology, 12(3), 256-273. https://doi.org/10.1093/ips/oly010

Development promotes bureaucratization, and bureaucracies are based on knowledge and produce knowledge. Failures of development are therefore regularly attributed to a lack of knowledge. The article argues that the quest for knowledge is embedded in... Read More about Seeing like Bureaucracies: Rearranging Knowledge and Ignorance in Somalia.

Der Alltag des Krieges. Herrschaftserfahrungen in Somalia / The war everyday : experiencing authority in Somalia (2018)
Journal Article
Bakonyi, J. (2018). Der Alltag des Krieges. Herrschaftserfahrungen in Somalia / The war everyday : experiencing authority in Somalia. Mittelweg 36, 27(2), 32-57

(…) Die Untersuchung nichtstaatlicher Gewaltakteure und deren Versuche, Kontrolle über Territorien und Menschen zu erlangen und dauerhaft zu sichern, erfolgte im Kontext der in den 1990er-Jahren einsetzenden Diskussion über scheiternde oder gefährdet... Read More about Der Alltag des Krieges. Herrschaftserfahrungen in Somalia / The war everyday : experiencing authority in Somalia.