Rita Abrahamsen

Security Beyond the State (eBook, PDF)

Private Security in International Politics

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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 affect 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511984921
• Artikelnr.: 38185332

Autorenporträt

Rita Abrahamsen is Associate Professor in the School of International Development and Global Studies at the University of Ottawa. She has lectured and published widely on African politics, and is currently joint-editor of the journal African Affairs. She is the author of Disciplining Democracy: Development Discourse and Good Governance in Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The untold story: the globalization of private security
2. Late modernity and the rise of private security
3. Power and governance: global assemblages and the security field
4. Of oil and diamonds: global security assemblages in resource extraction
5. Safer cities or cities of walls? The politics of urban global security assemblages
6. Security, politics, and global assemblages.

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Introduction; 1. The untold story: the globalization of private security; 2. Late modernity and the rise of private security; 3. Power and governance: global assemblages and the security field; 4. Of oil and diamonds: global security assemblages in resource extraction; 5. Safer cities or cities of walls? The politics of urban global security assemblages; 6. Security, politics, and global assemblages.