Abdi Ismail Samatar
Domaine de recherche | l'Afrique |
Pays de résidence | États-Unis d'Amérique |
Titre | Professor |
Affiliation | University of Minnesota |
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Adresse | Department of Geography, Environment & Society
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Téléphone/Télécopie | 612-625-6080 |
Pays de spécialisation | Somalia : Ethiopia ; Botswana ; Horn of Africa region ; Eastern Africa ; Southern Africa |
Éducation | Ph.D.: University of California, Berkeley, CA, 1985 ; MCRP: Urban/Regional Planning, Iowa State University, 1981 ; A.B.: University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, 1979. |
Recherche | Relationship between democracy and development in the Third World in general and Africa in particular; links between democratic leadership, public institutions, and development in East and South Africa; Islam, social capital and ethnicity in the Horn of Africa; and environment and development more generally. See also: https://cla.umn.edu/about/directory/profile/samat001 |
Enseignement | Geography of the Islamic World ; Southern Africa: Beyond Apartheid ; Environment and Development in the Third World ;
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Publications | Books: -- Africa's First Democrats: Somalia's Aden A. Osman & Abdirazak H. Hussen. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2016. -- The African State: Reconsiderations. (co-editor with Ahmed Samatar) Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2002.
Selected recent journal articles: -- "Africa: Beware of Obama's second term." African Studies Review, 56:2 (2013): 179-183. -- "The Dialectics of Piracy in Somalia: the Poor versus the Rich." Third World Quarterly, December 2010. -- "Faithless Power as Fraticide: Is there an Alternative in Somalia?" Bidhaan: International Journal of Somali Studies, 9 (2009): 63-81. |
Mots-clés | Somalia ; Ethiopia ; Botswana ; geography ; development |