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020 _a9781847010780 (James Currey cloth)
040 _aUCULIB
_cUCULIB
082 0 0 _a303.696
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245 1 0 _aConflict & Security in Africa /
_cEdited by Rita Abrahamsen.
250 _a1st ed.
260 _aWoodbridge :
_bJames Currey,
_cc2013.
300 _axii, 228 p. :
_bill. ;
_c24 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aThe untold story: the globalization of private security -- Late modernity and the rise of private security -- Power and governance: global assemblages and the security field -- Of oil and diamonds: global security assemblages in resource extraction -- Safer cities or cities of walls?: the politics of urban global security assemblages -- Security, politics, and global assemblages.
520 _a"Across the globe, from mega-cities to isolated resource enclaves, the provision and governance of security takes place within assemblages that are de-territorialized in terms of actors, technologies, norms and discourses. They are embedded in a complex transnational architecture, defying conventional distinctions between public and private, global and local. Drawing on theories of globalization and late modernity, along with insights from criminology, political science and sociology, Security beyond the State maps the emergence of the global private security sector and develops a novel analytical framework for understanding these global security assemblages. Through in-depth examinations of four African countries - Kenya, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and South Africa - it demonstrates how global security assemblages effect the distribution of social power, the dynamics of state stability, and the operations of the international political economy, with significant implications for who gets secured and how in a global era"--Provided by publisher.
650 0 _aSecurity, International.
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650 0 _aConflict
_zAfrica
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650 0 _aSecurity
_zAfrica
700 _aAbrahamsen, Rita,
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