The security-development nexus : expressions of sovereignty and securitization in Southern Africa / edited by Lars Buur, Steffen Jensen and Finn Stepputat.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Buur, Lars.

Jensen, Steffen

Stepputat, Finn

Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National security--Africa, Southern.

National security.

Southern Africa.

Security, International.

Africa, Southern--Politics and government--1994-.

Africa, Southern.

Politics and government.

Africa, Southern--Economic conditions--1994-.

Economic conditions.

Physical Description:

284 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet ; Cape Town : HSRC, 2007.

Summary:

The link between security and development has been rediscovered since 9/11 by a broad range of scholars. Focusing on Southern Africa, The Security-Development Nexus shows that the much debated linkage is by no means a recent invention. Rather, the security/development link has been an important element of the state policies of colonial as well as post-colonial regimes during the Cold War, and it seems to be prospering in new configurations under the present wave of democratic transitions.

Contributors focus on a variety of contexts from South Africa, Mozambique, and Namibia, to Zimbabwe and Democratic Congo; they explore the nexus and our understanding of security and development through the prism of peace-keeping interventions, community policing, human rights, gender, land contests, squatters, nation and state-building, social movements, disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration programmes and the different trajectories democratization has taken in different parts of the region. Book jacket.

Contents:

Lars Buur, Steffen Jensen, Finn Stepputat The Security-Development Nexus 9

Internal and External Boundaries

/ Thomas Mandrup Jorgensen You Do Need a Stick to Be Able to Use It Gently The South African Armed Forces in The Democratic Republic of Congo 37

/ Steffen Jensen, Lars Buur The Nationalist Imperative South Africanisation, Regional Integration and Mobile Livelihoods 63

/ Lalli Metsola, Henning Melber Namibia's Pariah Heroes Swapo Ex-Combatants Between Liberation Gospel and Security Interests 85

States, Development and Vernacular Security

/ Lars Buur The Intertwined History of Security and Development The Case of Developmental Struggles in South Africa's Townships 109

/ Helene Maria Kyed The Politics of Policing Re-capturing 'Zones of Confusion' in Rural Post-War Mozambique 132

/ Guy Lamb Militarising Politics and Development The Case of Post-Independence Namibia 152

/ Jacob Rasmussen Struggling for the City Evictions in Inner-City Johannesburg 174

Identity, Violence and Rights

/ Steffen Jensen Through the Lens of Crime Land Claims and Contestations of Citizenship on the Frontier of the South African State 193

/ Amanda Hammar Criminality, Security and Development Post-Colonial Reversals in Zimbabwe's Margins 212

/ Tina Sideris Post-Apartheid South Africa - Gender, Rights and the Politics of Recognition New Avenues for Old Forms of Violence? 233.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.

ISBN:

9789171065834

9171065830

OCLC:

75927930