Private security in Africa : : from the global assemblage to the everyday / / edited by Paul Higate and Mats Utas.
A comprehensive analysis of the rise of private security providers across Africa, and its implications for African states and societies.
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| Superior document: | Africa Now |
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| Place / Publishing House: | London, England : : Zed Books,, 2017. [London, England] : : Bloomsbury Publishing,, 2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Africa Now.
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online Resource |
| Notes: | GOBI |
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Table of Contents:
- Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Golden assemblages: security and development in Tanzania's gold mines; 2 Failed, weak or fake state? The role of private security in Somalia; 3 Private security beyond the private sector: community policing and secret societies in Sierra Leone; 4 The underbelly of global security: Sierra Leonean ex-militias in Iraq; 5 Who do you call? Private security policing in Durban, South Africa; 6 Security Sector Reform as Trojan Horse? The new security assemblages of privatized military training in Liberia.
- 7 Political becoming and non-state emergence in Kenya's security sector: Mungiki as security operator8 Parapluies politiques: the everyday politics of private security in the Democratic Republic of Congo; Epilogue: African assemblages of private security; About the editors and contributors; Index.