Umfang:
Online-Ressource (219 p)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9781317802464
Serie:
Law, Development and Globalization
Inhalt:
This anthology explores the political nature of making order through policing activities in densely populated spaces across Africa, Asia and Latin America. Based on ethnographic research, the chapters analyze this complex with respect to marginalized young men in Haiti, community policing members and national politicians in Swaziland as well as other individual and collective actors engaged in policing and politics in Indonesia, Swaziland, Ghana, South Africa, Mexico, Bolivia, Haiti and Sierra Leone. What these contexts have in common is a plurality of order-making practices. Not one instituti
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Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1 Introduction: policing and the politics of order-making on the urban margins; 2 Policing Bagong Silang: intimacy and politics in the Philippines; 3 Policing and the politics of protection on Lombok, Indonesia; 4 Rival forms of policing and politics in urban Swaziland; 5 Community policing in Accra: the complexities of local notions of (in)security and (in)justice
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6 New authorities: relating state and non-state security auspices in South African Improvement Districts7 Security assemblages at the urban margins of Mexico City; 8 Closure of bars, cantinas and brothels: practices of civil in/security, state formation and citizenship in urban Bolivia; 9 Security governance in Hout Bay: a study of three local communities' capacity to engage in policing; 10 Young but not alone: youth organizations and the local politics of security provision; 11 Secret societies and order-making in Freetown; Index
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781317802464
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780415743303
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version Policing and the Politics of Order-Making
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books
