1. Policing and the politics of order-making on the urban margins, Helene Maria Kyed and Peter Albrecht 2. Policing Bagong Silang: Intimacy and politics in the Philippines, Steffen Jensen and Karl Hapal 3. Policing and the politics of protection on Lombok, Indonesia, Kari Telle 4. Rival Forms of Policing and Politics in Urban Swaziland, Helene Maria Kyed 5. Community policing in Accra: the complexities of local notions of (in)security and (in)justice, Emmanuel Addo Sowatey and Raymond Atuguba 6. New Authorities: Relating State and Non-state Security Auspices in South African Improvement Districts, Julie Berg with Clifford Shearing 7. Security Assemblages at the Urban Margins of Mexico City, Markus-Michael Müller 8. Closure of Bars, Cantinas and Brothels. Practices of civil in/security, state formation and citizenship in urban Bolivia, Helene Risør 9. Security Governance in Hout Bay: A study of three local communities’ capacity to engage in policing, Øyvind Samnøy Tefre 10. Young but not Alone: Youth Organizations and the Local Politics of Security Provision, Louis-Alexandre Berg 11. Secret Societies and Order-making in Freetown, Nathaniel King and Peter Albrecht
Peter Albrecht is a Project Researcher at the Danish Institute for
International Studies.
Helene Maria Kyed is a Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute
for International Studies.
'Policing and the Politics of Order-Making is a smart and engaging
examination of urban insecurity and policing, across a broad range
of geographical locations. Scholars from a variety of disciplines
will be interested in these essays’ explorations of order – what it
means, how it is made, by whom, and the ways in which it is
contested by a range of social actors. A much-needed contribution
to our understanding of order-making in contemporary cities around
the world.'Daniel M. Goldstein, Professor of Anthropology, Rutgers
University‘This volume interrogates the policing of the world’s
megacities. Combining innovative theory and empirically rich case
studies, it explains how urban protection across the Americas,
Africa and Asia comprises plural, overlapping policing actors of
both state and citizens. The collection investigates the ways that
people on the urban margins improvise their own protection amidst
high crime rates, and how community policing emerges not simply as
a reflex of neoliberal reforms but with its own history and
politics. The case studies shed new light on youth-led civilian
policing groups, how they operate in the ‘twilight’ between
official sanction and covert racket, and how they are shaped by and
produce their own political trajectories. This volume further
complicates our understandings of global policing in a neoliberal
age and is highly recommended.’David Pratten, Oxford
University‘This is a timely and very welcome contribution to the
ongoing exploration of the politics and practices of plural
policing in the urban margins. The well written chapters
convincingly show how hard-to-categorize policing actors in cities
such as Manila, Cape Town, Accra, Port-o-Prince and Mexico City,
engage in everyday order-making as well as overt politics,
ambiguously manoeuvring the fine lines between legitimate and
illegitimate use of violence.’Finn Stepputat, Danish Institute of
International Studies"It might be imagined that... challenges to
the state's claim on the monopoly of security provision,
ordermaking and the legitimate use of violence leads to constant
conflict between the local groups and the authorities. However, the
cases presented in Policing and the Politics of Order-Making
demonstrate that the norm is a degree of liaison, if not
co-operation, with the state police. Certainly, the very popularity
and success of these groups evoke from the formal providers both
resentment of their rivals and jealousy of the symbolic capital
(prestige and attention) that they possess."Bruce Baker for The
RUSI Journal (2015)
'Policing and the Politics of Order-Making is a smart and engaging
examination of urban insecurity and policing, across a broad range
of geographical locations. Scholars from a variety of disciplines
will be interested in these essays’ explorations of order – what it
means, how it is made, by whom, and the ways in which it is
contested by a range of social actors. A much-needed contribution
to our understanding of order-making in contemporary cities around
the world.'Daniel M. Goldstein, Professor of Anthropology, Rutgers
University‘This volume interrogates the policing of the world’s
megacities. Combining innovative theory and empirically rich case
studies, it explains how urban protection across the Americas,
Africa and Asia comprises plural, overlapping policing actors of
both state and citizens. The collection investigates the ways that
people on the urban margins improvise their own protection amidst
high crime rates, and how community policing emerges not simply as
a reflex of neoliberal reforms but with its own history and
politics. The case studies shed new light on youth-led civilian
policing groups, how they operate in the ‘twilight’ between
official sanction and covert racket, and how they are shaped by and
produce their own political trajectories. This volume further
complicates our understandings of global policing in a neoliberal
age and is highly recommended.’David Pratten, Oxford
University‘This is a timely and very welcome contribution to the
ongoing exploration of the politics and practices of plural
policing in the urban margins. The well written chapters
convincingly show how hard-to-categorize policing actors in cities
such as Manila, Cape Town, Accra, Port-o-Prince and Mexico City,
engage in everyday order-making as well as overt politics,
ambiguously manoeuvring the fine lines between legitimate and
illegitimate use of violence.’Finn Stepputat, Danish Institute of
International Studies
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