Private security in Africa : from the global assemblage to the everyday /: from the global assemblage to the everyday. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Paul Higate, Mats Utas.
• Editors: Higate, Paul; Utas, Mats
• Contents: Acknowledgements About the Contributors Introduction - Paul Higate 1. Golden Assemblages: Security and Development in Tanzania’s Gold Mines - Rita Abrahamsen and Michael Williams 2. Failed, Fake or Weak State: The Role of Private Security in Somalia - William Reno 3. Private Security Beyond the Private Sector: Community Policing and Secret Societies in Sierra Leone - Peter Albrecht 4. The Underbelly of Global Security: Sierra Leoneans in Iraq - Maya Mynster Christensen 5. Who do you Call? Private Security Policing in Durban, South Africa - Tessa Diphoorn 6. Security Sector Reform as Trojan Horse? New Security Assemblages of Privatised Military Training in Liberia - Marcus Mohlin 7. Political Becoming and Non-State Emergence in Kenya’s Security Sector: Mungiki as Security Operator - Jacob Rasmussen 8. Parapluies Politiques: The Everyday Politics of Private Security in the Democratic Republic of the Congo - Peer Schouten Epilogue: African Assemblages of private security - Mats Utas
• Publisher Details: London : Zed Books
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (192 pages)
• Subjects: 363.289096; Private security services -- Africa
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781786990273
• Related ISBNs: 178699027X; 9781786990259
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