Twilight Policing: Private Security and Violence in Urban South Africa

Tessa G. Diphoorn

Published by University of California Press 2015

Twilight Policing

Private Security and Violence in Urban South Africa

Tessa G. Diphoorn

https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520962507

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South Africa boasts the largest private security sector in the entire world, reflecting deep anxieties about violence, security, and governance. Twilight Policing is an ethnographic study of the daily policing practices of armed response officers—a specific type of private security officer—and their interactions with citizens and the state police in Durban, South Africa. This book shows how their policing practices simultaneously undermine and support the state, resulting in actions that are neither public nor private, but something in between, something "twilight." Their performances of security are also punitive, disciplinary, and exclusionary, and they work to reinforce post-apartheid racial and economic inequalities. Ultimately, Twilight Policing helps to illuminate how citizens survive volatile conditions and to whom they assign the authority to guide them in the process.

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Diphoorn Tessa G. :

Tessa G. Diphoorn has done extensive research on private security in South Africa, and more recently also in Kenya, Jamaica, and Israel. She is currently Assistant Professor at the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Utrecht University.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Abbreviations and Acronyms Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
A Note on Writing Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
Prologue: Entering the Twilight Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
CHAPTER 1. Twilight Policing: The Performance of Sovereign Power Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	6
CHAPTER 2. “Old School” Policing versus “the New South Africa”: Violence and Security in South Africa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	30
CHAPTER 3. “The Promising Horse”: The Armed Response Sector Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
CHAPTER 4. “Wanna- Be Policemen”: Being an Armed Response Offi cer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
CHAPTER 5. “It All Comes Down to Them”: Daily Interactions with the “State” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
CHAPTER 6. “Getting Connected with the Community”: The Beneficiaries of Armed Response Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	160
CHAPTER 7. Performances of Twilight Policing: Public Authority, Coercion, and Moral Ordering Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	194
Epilogue: Expanding the Twilight Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	230
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
Glossary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277

Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Pages
- Main content: 304

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Published: October 20, 2015
ISBN: 9780520962507