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Twilight Policing : Private Security and Violence in Urban South Africa.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (303 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520962507
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Twilight PolicingDDC classification:
  • 363.28/90968
LOC classification:
  • HV8291.S6 D574 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- A Note on Writing -- Prologue: Entering the Twilight -- 1. Twilight Policing: The Performance of Sovereign Power -- 2. "Old School" Policing versus "the New South Africa": Violence and Security in South Africa -- 3. "The Promising Horse": The Armed Response Sector -- 4. "Wanna-Be Policemen": Being an Armed Response Officer -- 5. "It All Comes Down to Them": Daily Interactions with the "State" -- 6. "Getting Connected with the Community": The Beneficiaries of Armed Response -- 7. Performances of Twilight Policing: Public Authority, Coercion, and Moral Ordering -- Epilogue: Expanding the Twilight -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Summary: South Africa boasts the largest private security sector in the entire world, reflecting deep anxieties about violence, security, and governance. Twilight Policing is an ethnographic study of the daily policing practices of armed response officers--a specific type of private security officer--and their interactions with citizens and the state police in Durban, South Africa. This book shows how their policing practices simultaneously undermine and support the state, resulting in actions that are neither public nor private, but something in between, something "twilight." Their performances of security are also punitive, disciplinary, and exclusionary, and they work to reinforce post-apartheid racial and economic inequalities. Ultimately, Twilight Policing helps to illuminate how citizens survive volatile conditions and to whom they assign the authority to guide them in the process.
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Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- A Note on Writing -- Prologue: Entering the Twilight -- 1. Twilight Policing: The Performance of Sovereign Power -- 2. "Old School" Policing versus "the New South Africa": Violence and Security in South Africa -- 3. "The Promising Horse": The Armed Response Sector -- 4. "Wanna-Be Policemen": Being an Armed Response Officer -- 5. "It All Comes Down to Them": Daily Interactions with the "State" -- 6. "Getting Connected with the Community": The Beneficiaries of Armed Response -- 7. Performances of Twilight Policing: Public Authority, Coercion, and Moral Ordering -- Epilogue: Expanding the Twilight -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

South Africa boasts the largest private security sector in the entire world, reflecting deep anxieties about violence, security, and governance. Twilight Policing is an ethnographic study of the daily policing practices of armed response officers--a specific type of private security officer--and their interactions with citizens and the state police in Durban, South Africa. This book shows how their policing practices simultaneously undermine and support the state, resulting in actions that are neither public nor private, but something in between, something "twilight." Their performances of security are also punitive, disciplinary, and exclusionary, and they work to reinforce post-apartheid racial and economic inequalities. Ultimately, Twilight Policing helps to illuminate how citizens survive volatile conditions and to whom they assign the authority to guide them in the process.

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