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Policing post-conflict cities / by Alice Hills.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Zed, 2008Description: x, 262 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1842779702
  • 9781842779705
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 363.2091732 22
LOC classification:
  • HV7921
Contents:
1. Order in an Urban Century -- 2. Controlling Cityscapes -- 3. International Policing -- 4. Ghetto Security -- 5. Social Continuities and the Production of Order -- 6. Making their Own Rules -- 7. Re-emergent Order -- 8. A Question of Security.
Summary: "How and why does order emerge after conflict? What does it mean in the context of the twenty-first century postcolonial city? From Kabul to Kigali and Kinshasa, in Baghdad and Basra, abandoned by the state, and with security increasingly ghettoised, people make their own rules and survival becomes a matter of manipulation and hustling. In this book Alice Hills discusses the interface between order and security. Though the focus from analysts and donors is generally on security, Hills argues that the concept of order is much more meaningful for peoples' lives. Focusing on the police as both providers of order and a measure of its success, the book shows that order depends more on what has gone before than on reconstruction efforts and that tension is inevitable in donors' attempts to reform brutal local policing. Policing Post-Conflict Cities provides a powerful critique of the failure of liberal orthodoxy to understand the meaning of order."--Publisher's website.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 363.2091732 HIL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A378665B

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Order in an Urban Century -- 2. Controlling Cityscapes -- 3. International Policing -- 4. Ghetto Security -- 5. Social Continuities and the Production of Order -- 6. Making their Own Rules -- 7. Re-emergent Order -- 8. A Question of Security.

"How and why does order emerge after conflict? What does it mean in the context of the twenty-first century postcolonial city? From Kabul to Kigali and Kinshasa, in Baghdad and Basra, abandoned by the state, and with security increasingly ghettoised, people make their own rules and survival becomes a matter of manipulation and hustling. In this book Alice Hills discusses the interface between order and security. Though the focus from analysts and donors is generally on security, Hills argues that the concept of order is much more meaningful for peoples' lives. Focusing on the police as both providers of order and a measure of its success, the book shows that order depends more on what has gone before than on reconstruction efforts and that tension is inevitable in donors' attempts to reform brutal local policing. Policing Post-Conflict Cities provides a powerful critique of the failure of liberal orthodoxy to understand the meaning of order."--Publisher's website.

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