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