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Mobile Urbanity: Somali Presence in Urban East Africa. Neil Carrier & Tabea Scharrer, eds., New York: Berghahn, 2019, 264 pp.

Mobile Urbanity: Somali Presence in Urban East Africa. Neil Carrier & Tabea Scharrer, eds., New... Book Review Mobile Urbanity: Somali Presence in shared among Somalis of Kenya and Urban East Africa. Neil Carrier & Tabea those of Somalia, which makes it hard Scharrer, eds., New York: Berghahn, 2019, for the police to distinguish their 264 pp. nationality and citizenship. In the introduction chapter, the Serah Shani editors reveal that looking at urban Westmont College neighborhoods in everyday life, with permanent buildings, businesses and This book is an edited volume by Neil ethnic neighborhoods, might sometimes Carrier and Tebea Scharrer, who also obscure the enclave’s embeddedness in write the book’s introduction. Mobile the global mobile world. And while Urbanity: Somali Presence in Urban Africa is movement of people can sound obvious a highly needed exposition of the in the contemporary world, the editors st unsettled state of urbanities in the 21 reveal that it’s not only people that move century. A century that is characterized but also money, material things, ideas, as by movement of people, ideas, and many well as belief practices, such as Islam. other resources prompts the editors to Thus, they suggest that cities, like state that “in some ways urbanity itself is Eastleigh in Nairobi, are in a mobile mobile” (3). http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png City & Society Wiley

Mobile Urbanity: Somali Presence in Urban East Africa. Neil Carrier & Tabea Scharrer, eds., New York: Berghahn, 2019, 264 pp.

Shani, Serah
City & Society , Volume 32 (3) – Dec 1, 2020
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Book Review Mobile Urbanity: Somali Presence in shared among Somalis of Kenya and Urban East Africa. Neil Carrier & Tabea those of Somalia, which makes it hard Scharrer, eds., New York: Berghahn, 2019, for the police to distinguish their 264 pp. nationality and citizenship. In the introduction chapter, the Serah Shani editors reveal that looking at urban Westmont College neighborhoods in everyday life, with permanent buildings, businesses and This book is an edited volume by Neil ethnic neighborhoods, might sometimes Carrier and Tebea Scharrer, who also obscure the enclave’s embeddedness in write the book’s introduction. Mobile the global mobile world. And while Urbanity: Somali Presence in Urban Africa is movement of people can sound obvious a highly needed exposition of the in the contemporary world, the editors st unsettled state of urbanities in the 21 reveal that it’s not only people that move century. A century that is characterized but also money, material things, ideas, as by movement of people, ideas, and many well as belief practices, such as Islam. other resources prompts the editors to Thus, they suggest that cities, like state that “in some ways urbanity itself is Eastleigh in Nairobi, are in a mobile mobile” (3).

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