Ms Anna Rader
BA (Oxon), MA (London)
Overview
- Name:
- Ms Anna Rader
- Email address:
- anna_rader@soas.ac.uk
- Thesis title:
- Conceptualising Citizenship in Somaliland
- Year of Study:
- 2
Internal Supervisors
PhD Research
My research examines the impact of massive social fracture on political community in Somalia, looking at the new languages of interaction that emerge as conflict erodes shared civic space; and the way organisational resources and ideological symbols are reworked to take advantage of the remaining political space. In particular, I am researching perceptions and expectations of the state in Somalia using data gathered from fieldwork in Puntland and Somaliland in 2012/13.
PhD Publications
‘Book Review: Getting Somalia Wrong? Faith, War and Hope in a Shattered State by Mary Harper’, RUSI Journal (Vol. 157, No. 6, December 2012)
‘Photo Essay: Mogadishu’, RUSI Journal (Vol. 157, No. 4, August 2012) – with Susan Schulman
Somalia 2012: Ending the Transition? (Johannesburg: Brenthurst Foundation, June 2012) – co-edited with Knox Chitiyo
PhD Conferences
‘De Facto Citizenship: How Everyday Conversations Produce Citizens in Weak and Unrecognised States – A Case Study of Somaliland’, Pondering the Political, SOAS Politics and International Relations Conference 2012
PhD Affiliations
Associate Fellow, Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies
Associate Editor, Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism
Research
Horn of Africa, particularly Somalia and Somaliland, Political theory, Citizenship studies
