Global vigilantes
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:...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Columbia University Press
2008
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| In: | Year: 2008 |
| Edition: | [Nachdr.] |
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| Summary: | 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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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index Papers originally presented at a workshop, Global Vigilantes, held at the University of Sussex on July 8-9, 2005. - Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | XII, 448 S. |
| ISBN: | 9780231700313 9780231700085 |