Twilight policing : private security and violence in urban South Africa / Tessa G. Diphoorn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Diphoorn, Tessa G., 1984- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Police, Private--Social aspects--South Africa--Durban.

Police, Private.

Private security services--Social aspects--South Africa--Durban.

Private security services.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (303 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations and Acronyms

A Note on Writing

Prologue: Entering the Twilight

CHAPTER 1. Twilight Policing: The Performance of Sovereign Power

CHAPTER 2. "Old School" Policing versus "the New South Africa": Violence and Security in South Africa

CHAPTER 3. "The Promising Horse": The Armed Response Sector

CHAPTER 4. "Wanna- Be Policemen": Being an Armed Response Officer

CHAPTER 5. "It All Comes Down to Them": Daily Interactions with the "State"

CHAPTER 6. "Getting Connected with the Community": The Beneficiaries of Armed Response

CHAPTER 7. Performances of Twilight Policing: Public Authority, Coercion, and Moral Ordering

Epilogue: Expanding the Twilight

Notes

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520962507

0520962508

OCLC:

1058567279