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 scrutinises 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.
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