Gideon Van Riet

Hegemony, Security Infrastructures and the Politics of Crime (eBook, ePUB)

Everyday Experiences in South Africa

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the politics of crime and the response to it in Potchefstroom, a small settler colonial city in South Africa. It draws on the city's everyday practices and experiences of physical and virtual security to offer local bottom-up insights into private security.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000467932
• Artikelnr.: 62497247

Autorenporträt

Gideon van Riet is a senior lecturer in political studies at North-West University in South Africa. His research focusses on security as it pertains to disasters and crime. Gideon's first monograph, The institutionalisation of disaster risk reduction: South Africa and neoliberal governmentality, was published by Routledge in 2017.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Crime, Security and Politics Part 1: The Reopened Frontier
and the Fortified Laager 1. Biopolitics and the Reopened Frontier 2. The
Laager as a Collective Security Infrastructure 3. Infamous Spaces and the
Constitutive Outside Part 2: The Echo Chamber Effect 4. The Community
Policing Forum: The Talk Shop and the Circulator of Ideas 5. Trauma, Debate
and the Death Drive: Discursive Entanglements of Crime Reporting in the
Potchefstroom Herald 6. Private Security Companies and Securitisation Part
3: Everyday Practices 7. Private Security Operatives: The Typical and the
Stereotypical 8. Surveillance in the Suburbs: The Pilot Project in Oewersig
9. The Cachet Park City Improvement District Concluding Analysis: Crime,
Radical and Plural Democracy and Strategies of Construction