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id	eprints-40015
recordtype	eprints
institution	SOAS, University of London
collection	SOAS Research Online
language	English
language_search	English
topic	H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences
description	Somalia has a long history of famine and humanitarian crisis. This article focuses on the years 2008–2020, during which governance and aid practices changed substantially and which include three crisis periods. The article examines whether and how governance analysed as a political marketplace can help explain Somalia's repeated humanitarian crises and the manipulation of response. We argue that between 2008 and 2011 the political marketplace was a violent competitive oligopoly which contributed to famine, but that from 2012 a more collusive, informal political compact resulted in a status quo which avoided violent conflict or famine in 2017 and which functioned to keep external resources coming in. At the same time, this political arrangement benefits from the maintenance of a large group of displaced people in permanent precarity as a source of aid and labour.
format	Journal Article
author	Jaspars, Susanne
author_facet	Jaspars, Susanne Majid, Nisar Adan, Guhad
authorStr	Jaspars, Susanne
author_letter	Jaspars, Susanne
author2	Majid, Nisar Adan, Guhad
author2Str	Majid, Nisar Adan, Guhad
title	Somalia’s evolving political market place: from famine and humanitarian crisis to permanent precarity
publisher	Cambridge University Press
publishDate	2023
url	https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/40015/