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Author Haji-Abdi, Abdullahi

Title Critical realism, Somalia, and the diaspora community / Abdullahi Haji-Abdi
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2014
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Description 1 online resource (126 pages)
Series Ontological explorations
Ontological explorations.
Contents Introduction -- The theoretical context -- The geo-historical context -- Agency and sustainability -- The spatio-temporal formation of the SCOs -- Sustainability leadership learning -- Kinship, nationalism and Islam -- How is transformed, transformative leadership possible?
Summary Critical Realism, Somalia and the Diaspora Community equips new researchers with a simplified knowledge of critical realism suitable to the degree of their comprehension. Moreover, it offers a step by step example of research using all levels of critical realism. This book resulted from the endeavour of a researcher, new to critical realism who, however, sought to apply all parts and phases of critical realism to his subject matter. The book is divided into three parts: Part 1 provides an outline of the three phases of critical realism: original/basic critical realism, dialectical critical realism and the philosophy of metaReality. Part 2 presents a case study that applied critical realism as a research-theory framework. The case study explores the formation of the Somali Community Organisations in the UK and develops a retroductive model that outlines their role in engaging the Somali Diaspora Community with the issue of sustainability. Part 3 presents reflections towards the geo-historical study of Somalia and explains the origins of the civil war and the dispersal that resulted in the formation of Somali Diaspora Communities in different parts of the world. This book will be of interest to Critical Realists, researchers on and in Africa, agencies interested in Somali affairs, researchers on diaspora and refugees, Somali Community Co-ordinators and local council authorities in the UK and Europe
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Somalis -- Great Britain
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Politics and government
Somalis.
SUBJECT Somalia -- Politics and government -- 1991- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh97005032
Subject Great Britain.
Somalia.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781317928065
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9781315855561
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9781317928072
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