Private Security in Africa : (Record no. 126105)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781786990273 |
| Qualifying information | (electronic bk.) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| Canceled/invalid ISBN | 9781786990266 |
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| System control number | (MiAaPQ)EBC4857264 |
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| System control number | (Au-PeEL)EBL4857264 |
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| System control number | (CaPaEBR)ebr11383735 |
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| System control number | (OCoLC)987721945 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | MiAaPQ |
| Language of cataloging | eng |
| Description conventions | rda |
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| Transcribing agency | MiAaPQ |
| Modifying agency | MiAaPQ |
| 082 0# - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 363.289096 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Higate, Doctor Paul. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Private Security in Africa : |
| Remainder of title | From the Global Assemblage to the Everyday. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 1st ed. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | London : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Bloomsbury Academic & Professional, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2017. |
| 264 #4 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | ©2017. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource (193 pages) |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE | |
| Media type term | computer |
| Media type code | c |
| Source | rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE | |
| Carrier type term | online resource |
| Carrier type code | cr |
| Source | rdacarrier |
| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Africa Now Series |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1: Golden Assemblages: Security and Development in Tanzania's Gold Mines -- Theorizing Global Security Assemblages -- Widening Security, Expanding the Assemblage -- Transformation, Contestation and Difference -- Acknowledgement -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2: Failed, Weak or Fake State? The Role of Private Security in Somalia -- The Promise of the Conventional Approach -- The Desert of the Real -- Adjusting Expectations -- 'Private' Security Firms Amidst State Collapse -- State Substitution -- Alternative Indigenous Networks -- Company Connections to the Broader Political Environment -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3: Private Security Beyond the Private Sector: Community Policing and Secret Societies in Sierra Leone -- Paramount and Lesser Chiefs in Sierra Leone -- Chiefs and the Importance of Origin -- Local Policing Partnership Boards: Co-Opting the Private -- The Role of LPPBs in Order-Making -- The Role of the Poro in Order-Making -- The Poro Society and the Kondehs' Loss of Land -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 4: The Underbelly of Global Security: Sierra Leonean Ex-Militias in Iraq -- Global Security from Below: Between Recognition and Racialization -- Registering for 'Overseas Youth Employment' -- Waiting for Deployment: The Politics of Suspension -- Pre-Deployment Training: Learning 'White Man Culture' -- Experiences of Misrecognition and Degradation in Iraq -- Making Sense of Uneven Distributions: Vocabularies of Race and Slavery -- Conclusion: Sierra Leonean Ex-Militias as Intrinsic to Global Security Provision -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 5: Who Do You Call? Private Security Policing in Durban, South Africa -- Introduction -- South Africa: The 'Champion' of the Industry. |
| 505 8# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Twilight Policing -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 6: Security Sector Reform as Trojan Horse? The New Security Assemblages of Privatized Military Training in Liberia -- American Strategic Imperatives for Engagement in Liberia -- Military Assistance as a Bundle of Practices -- Building the Liberian Army -- Cooperation and Competition -- Contracting as Security Assemblage -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgement -- Notes -- List of Respondents -- Bibliography -- 7: Political Becoming and Non-State Emergence in Kenya's Security Sector: Mungiki as Security Operator -- Global Security Assemblage and Ethnographies of Non-State Security -- Framing Security Reform and the Disassembly of the Security Sector in Kenya -- Securing the One-Party State -- Democratization and Increased Security Fragmentation -- Securitization of Africa -- Mungiki as a Vehicle for Social and Political Becoming -- The Emergence of Militarized Youth Groups -- Mungiki's Everyday Performances of Security, Development and Violence -- Mungiki and the International Criminal Court (ICC) -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Note -- Bibliography -- 8: Parapluies Politiques: The Everyday Politics of Private Security in the Democratic Republic of Congo -- The Congolese Private Security Sector at Large -- The Trajectory and Topography of Congo's Private Security Companies -- The Emergence of Private Security in the DRC (1990-97): Securing International Business -- Consolidation of the Private Security Sector (1998-2003): Securing the 'International Community' -- The Two Logics of Everyday Public Security -- Everyday Geographies of Complicity -- Of Security Mimicry and Membership -- Security as Mediated (Dis)connection -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Epilogue: African Assemblages of Private Security -- Other Dimensions of the African Security Assemblage -- Notes. |
| 505 8# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Bibliography -- About the Editors and Contributors -- Index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | A comprehensive analysis of the rise of private security providers across Africa, and its implications for African states and societies. |
| 588 ## - SOURCE OF DESCRIPTION NOTE | |
| Source of description note | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources. |
| 590 ## - LOCAL NOTE (RLIN) | |
| Local note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Private security services. |
| 655 #4 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM | |
| Genre/form data or focus term | Electronic books. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Utas, Mats. |
| 776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY | |
| Relationship information | Print version: |
| Main entry heading | Higate, Doctor Paul |
| Title | Private Security in Africa |
| Place, publisher, and date of publication | London : Bloomsbury Academic & Professional,c2017 |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781786990266 |
| 797 2# - LOCAL ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME (RLIN) | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | ProQuest (Firm) |
| 830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE | |
| Uniform title | Africa Now Series |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4857264">https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4857264</a> |
| Public note | Click to View |
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