Private security in Africa : from the global assemblage to the everyday / edited by Paul Higate and Mats Utas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Higate, Paul, editor.

Utas, Matas, editor.

Series:

Africa Now.

Africa Now

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Private security services--Africa.

Private security services.

Physical Description:

1 Online Resource

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021

Place of Publication:

London, England : Zed Books, 2017.

Summary:

A comprehensive analysis of the rise of private security providers across Africa, and its implications for African states and societies.

Contents:

Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Golden assemblages: security and development in Tanzania's gold mines; 2 Failed, weak or fake state? The role of private security in Somalia; 3 Private security beyond the private sector: community policing and secret societies in Sierra Leone; 4 The underbelly of global security: Sierra Leonean ex-militias in Iraq; 5 Who do you call? Private security policing in Durban, South Africa; 6 Security Sector Reform as Trojan Horse? The new security assemblages of privatized military training in Liberia.

7 Political becoming and non-state emergence in Kenya's security sector: Mungiki as security operator8 Parapluies politiques: the everyday politics of private security in the Democratic Republic of Congo; Epilogue: African assemblages of private security; About the editors and contributors; Index.

Notes:

GOBI

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 22, 2017).

ISBN:

9781350221987

1350221988

9781786990273

178699027X

OCLC:

987629316