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Hybridization, intervention and authority : security beyond conflict in sierra leone
Title
Hybridization, intervention and authority : security beyond conflict in sierra leone / Peter Albrecht.
ISBN
1315102056
1351590898
1351590901
135159091X
9781315102054
9781351590891
9781351590907
9781351590914
1138104779
9781138104778
Publication
Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
Physical Description
1 online resource.
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Notes
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Summary
"This book explains how security is organized from the local to the national level in post-war Sierra Leone, and how external actors attempted to shape the field through security sector reform. Security sector reform became an important and deeply political instrument to establish peace in Sierra Leone as war drew to an end in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Through historical and ethnographic perspectives, the book explores how practices of security sector reform have both shaped and been shaped by practices and discourses of security provision from the national to the local level in post-war Sierra Leone. It critiques how the notion of hybridity has been applied in peace and security studies and cultural studies, and thereby provides an innovative perspective on IR, and the study of interventions. The book is the first to take the debate on security in Sierra Leone beyond a focus on conflict and peacebuilding, to explore everyday policing and order-making in rural areas of the country. Based on fieldwork between 2005 and 2018, it includes 200+ interviews with key players in Sierra Leone from the National Security Coordinator and Inspector-General of Police in Freetown to traditional leaders and miners in Peyima, a small town on the border with Guinea. This book will be of much interest to students of critical security, anthropology, African politics and IR in general"--Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Other formats
Print version: Albrecht, Peter, 1976- author. Hybridization, intervention and authority New York, NY ; Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2020
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 08, 2024
Series
Routledge private security studies
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction
The rise and fall of security sector reform in development
Collapse, chaos, and resurrection
Hybridization and the authority of chiefs
The interplay of police reform and hybridization
The chiefs of community policing
Secrets, strangers, and order-making
Hybridization in a case of diamond theft
Conclusion.
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