TY - BOOK AU - SKJELDERUP Michael W. TI - 'Like a chicken in a cage': civil resistance, militant Islamist rulers and traditional authorities in Southern Somalia PY - 2021/// KW - MILITANT KW - ISLAMIST RULERS KW - SOUTHERN SOMALIA KW - MILITARY KW - INTERVENTIONS KW - YEMEN KW - AFGHANISTAN N2 - The paper argues that traditional institutions, spearheaded by the clan elders, were the main channel through which the civilian communities fostered and expressed resistance against the militant Islamist rulers. Along with military interventions and the rise of self-declared Islamic emirates and states in areas such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, the Sahel and Somalia, academic interest in encounters between Islamist insurgents and local communities UR - https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2021.1883335 ER -