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Global Vigilantes / David Pratten, Atreyee Sen, editors.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: London : Hurst & Company, 2007.Description: xii, 448 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9781850658382
  • 9781850658375
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 364.134 23 GLO
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Contents:
Global vigilantes: perspectives on justice and violence / Atreyee Sen, David Pratten -- Spectacle in the desert: the minueteman project on the US-Mexico border / Leo R. Chavez -- Policing Nkomazi: crime, Masculinity and generational conflicts / Steffen Jensen -- Everyday and extraordinary violence: women vigilantes and raw justice in the Bombay slums / Altreyee Sen -- 'Policing' through violence: fear, vigilantism and the politics of Islam in northern Nigeria / Conerly Casey -- Fluctuating personhood: vigilantism and citizenship in Port Elizabeth's townships / Lars Buur -- Law and disorder in the Palestinian West Bank: the execution of suspected collaborators under Israeli occupation / Tobias Kelly -- Singing thieves: history and practice in Nigerian popular justice in Nigerian popular justice / David Pratten -- 'You know America has drive by shootings? In Creggan, we have drive by beatings.' Continuing intracommunity vigilantism in urban Northern Ireland / Rosellen Roche -- Flexible justice: neoliberal violence and 'self-help' security in Bolivia / Daniel M. Goldstein -- Private security and public insecurity: outsourced vigilantism in modern Russia / Mark Galeotti -- Markets of protection: the Maoist Communist Centre and the state in Jharkhand, India / Alpa Shah -- Vigillantism, transition and legitimacy: informal policing in Northern Ireland / Neil Jarman -- When vigilantes turn bad: gangs, violence, and social change in urban Nicaragua / Dennis Rodgers -- Lynching and post-war complexities in Guatemala / Jannifer Burrell, Gavin Weston -- State vigilantes and political community on the margins in post-war Mozambique / Helene Maria Kyed -- Some thoughts on the comparative study of vigilantism / Ray Abrahams.
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Papers originally presented at a workshop, Global Vigilantes, held at the University of Sussex on July 8-9, 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Global vigilantes: perspectives on justice and violence / Atreyee Sen, David Pratten -- Spectacle in the desert: the minueteman project on the US-Mexico border / Leo R. Chavez -- Policing Nkomazi: crime, Masculinity and generational conflicts / Steffen Jensen -- Everyday and extraordinary violence: women vigilantes and raw justice in the Bombay slums / Altreyee Sen -- 'Policing' through violence: fear, vigilantism and the politics of Islam in northern Nigeria / Conerly Casey -- Fluctuating personhood: vigilantism and citizenship in Port Elizabeth's townships / Lars Buur -- Law and disorder in the Palestinian West Bank: the execution of suspected collaborators under Israeli occupation / Tobias Kelly -- Singing thieves: history and practice in Nigerian popular justice in Nigerian popular justice / David Pratten -- 'You know America has drive by shootings? In Creggan, we have drive by beatings.' Continuing intracommunity vigilantism in urban Northern Ireland / Rosellen Roche -- Flexible justice: neoliberal violence and 'self-help' security in Bolivia / Daniel M. Goldstein -- Private security and public insecurity: outsourced vigilantism in modern Russia / Mark Galeotti -- Markets of protection: the Maoist Communist Centre and the state in Jharkhand, India / Alpa Shah -- Vigillantism, transition and legitimacy: informal policing in Northern Ireland / Neil Jarman -- When vigilantes turn bad: gangs, violence, and social change in urban Nicaragua / Dennis Rodgers -- Lynching and post-war complexities in Guatemala / Jannifer Burrell, Gavin Weston -- State vigilantes and political community on the margins in post-war Mozambique / Helene Maria Kyed -- Some thoughts on the comparative study of vigilantism / Ray Abrahams.

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