Der Alltag des Krieges. Herrschaftserfahrungen in Somalia (English: The War Everyday: Experiencing Authority in Somalia)
- Submitting institution
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University of Durham
- Unit of assessment
- 19 - Politics and International Studies
- Output identifier
- 114647
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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- Title of journal
- Mittelweg 36
- Article number
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- First page
- 32
- Volume
- 27
- Issue
- 2
- ISSN
- 09416382
- Open access status
- Not compliant
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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https://www.hamburger-edition.de/zeitschrift-mittelweg-36/alle-zeitschriften-archiv/artikel-detail/d/2095/Rebellenherrschaft/0/
- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- Yes
- English abstract
- The article explores how violent actors and the orders they create gain or lose legitimacy. Research often disregards questions of legitimacy and how ordinary people evaluate their actions. Analysing biographic interviews with Somali refugees in Kenya, I show that legitimacy is less rooted in ideologies than in everyday performances of rule and the way they shape experiences of security. I suggest shifting from static conceptualisations of legitimacy towards a processual understanding of legitimisation as an everyday social practice. To endure, authority must anchor itself in everyday lives of people who can bear, support, undermine or reject it.