TY  - BOOK
AU  - Higate,Doctor Paul
AU  - Utas,Mats
TI  - Private Security in Africa: From the Global Assemblage to the Everyday
T2  - Africa Now Series
SN  - 9781786990273
U1  - 363.289096 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - London
PB  - Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
KW  - Private security services
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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; 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; Bibliography -- About the Editors and Contributors -- Index
N2  - A comprehensive analysis of the rise of private security providers across Africa, and its implications for African states and societies
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ER  -