Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

A Post-Exotic Anthropology of Soqotra, Volume IState-Community Relations: Political History Conjunctures

A Post-Exotic Anthropology of Soqotra, Volume I: State-Community Relations: Political History... [This chapter reconstructs Soqotra’s historical evolution as a social formation that was driven primarily by a series of acts of political incorporation. These acts brokered Soqotra’s contact with the outside world and structured its internal dynamics as well as regulated the nature and pace of its change process. This process engendered a succession of forms of externally imposed sovereignty that was always claimed on behalf of, and never by, Soqotrans. This claim to sovereignty was based on relations between a peripheral island community and a political center located elsewhere. This constituted the crucible of the island’s historical transformation, as it set in motion the mechanism of change through the constant manipulation and restructuring of its social, political, and economic institutions as well as its cultural practices. The chapter narrates Soqotra’s historical trajectory as a transitional social formation through six conjunctures of political incorporation that it has experienced thus far. The reconstruction of each of Soqotra’s political incorporation conjunctures is done through a description of four vectors of historical change and social transformation: the catalytic events that led to the regime’s emergence; the political geography adopted for territorial administration; the structure and operational modality of communal governance; and the economic policy that underpins the development strategy. Finally, the chapter considers the likely outcome of the latest phase in Soqotra’s external supervision. In elucidating all of the above, this narrative simultaneously establishes the broad contours of the still unwritten modern history of Soqotra.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Post-Exotic Anthropology of Soqotra, Volume IState-Community Relations: Political History Conjunctures

Download PDF
78 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/springer-journals/a-post-exotic-anthropology-of-soqotra-volume-i-state-community-fffi9gugzR
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
ISBN
978-3-030-45637-5
Pages
227 –305
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-45638-2_7
Publisher site
See Chapter on Publisher Site

Abstract

[This chapter reconstructs Soqotra’s historical evolution as a social formation that was driven primarily by a series of acts of political incorporation. These acts brokered Soqotra’s contact with the outside world and structured its internal dynamics as well as regulated the nature and pace of its change process. This process engendered a succession of forms of externally imposed sovereignty that was always claimed on behalf of, and never by, Soqotrans. This claim to sovereignty was based on relations between a peripheral island community and a political center located elsewhere. This constituted the crucible of the island’s historical transformation, as it set in motion the mechanism of change through the constant manipulation and restructuring of its social, political, and economic institutions as well as its cultural practices. The chapter narrates Soqotra’s historical trajectory as a transitional social formation through six conjunctures of political incorporation that it has experienced thus far. The reconstruction of each of Soqotra’s political incorporation conjunctures is done through a description of four vectors of historical change and social transformation: the catalytic events that led to the regime’s emergence; the political geography adopted for territorial administration; the structure and operational modality of communal governance; and the economic policy that underpins the development strategy. Finally, the chapter considers the likely outcome of the latest phase in Soqotra’s external supervision. In elucidating all of the above, this narrative simultaneously establishes the broad contours of the still unwritten modern history of Soqotra.]

Published: Jun 21, 2020

There are no references for this article.