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Between protest, revenge and material interests: a phenomenological analysis of looting in the Somali war
Ist Teil von
Disasters, 2010-04, Vol.34 (s2), p.S238-S255
Ort / Verlag
Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr
2010
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Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
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This paper examines practices of looting in the Somali war.1 Rather than being inspired primarily by economic objectives, lootings are complex and ambiguous social activities, which are embedded in daily practices and the political rhetoric of the war. In Somalia, looting activities have been driven by a broad range of motives, including military‐strategic considerations and/or desire to revenge past atrocities and (perceived) injustices, as well as economic interests. Furthermore, the organisational structure, the performance of actions and the main targets of looters have differed widely. Based on an empirical analysis of different waves and phases of looting in the context of war and state decay in Somalia, the paper identifies five types of looting. Beyond a state‐centred conceptualisation of order, the study reveals that looting is not an expression of political chaos, but rather is patterned by and rooted in local moral universes, which have been fundamentally transformed during the course of the violent conflicts in the country since the end of the 1970s.