Chapter
1: Golden Assemblages: Security and Development in Tanzania’s Gold Mines
Theorizing Global Security Assemblages
Widening Security, Expanding the Assemblage
Transformation, Contestation and Difference
2: Failed, Weak or Fake State? The Role of Private Security in Somalia
The Promise of the Conventional Approach
‘Private’ Security Firms Amidst State Collapse
Alternative Indigenous Networks
Company Connections to the Broader Political Environment
3: Private Security Beyond the Private Sector: Community Policing and Secret Societies in Sierra Leone
Paramount and Lesser Chiefs in Sierra Leone
Chiefs and the Importance of Origin
Local Policing Partnership Boards: Co-Opting the Private
The Role of LPPBs in Order-Making
The Role of the Poro in Order-Making
The Poro Society and the Kondehs’ Loss of Land
4: The Underbelly of Global Security: Sierra Leonean Ex-Militias in Iraq
Global Security from Below: Between Recognition and Racialization
Registering for ‘Overseas Youth Employment’
Waiting for Deployment: The Politics of Suspension
Pre-Deployment Training: Learning ‘White Man Culture’
Experiences of Misrecognition and Degradation in Iraq
Making Sense of Uneven Distributions: Vocabularies of Race and Slavery
Conclusion: Sierra Leonean Ex-Militias as Intrinsic to Global Security Provision
5: Who Do You Call? Private Security Policing in Durban, South Africa
South Africa: The ‘Champion’ of the Industry
6: Security Sector Reform as Trojan Horse? The New Security Assemblages of Privatized Military Training in Liberia
American Strategic Imperatives for Engagement in Liberia
Military Assistance as a Bundle of Practices
Building the Liberian Army
Cooperation and Competition
Contracting as Security Assemblage
7: Political Becoming and Non-State Emergence in Kenya’s Security Sector: Mungiki as Security Operator
Global Security Assemblage and Ethnographies of Non-State Security
Framing Security Reform and the Disassembly of the Security Sector in Kenya
Securing the One-Party State
Democratization and Increased Security Fragmentation
Mungiki as a Vehicle for Social and Political Becoming
The Emergence of Militarized Youth Groups
Mungiki’s Everyday Performances of Security, Development and Violence
Mungiki and the International Criminal Court (ICC)
8: Parapluies Politiques: The Everyday Politics of Private Security in the Democratic Republic of Congo
The Congolese Private Security Sector at Large
The Trajectory and Topography of Congo’s Private Security Companies
The Emergence of Private Security in the DRC (1990–97): Securing International Business
Consolidation of the Private Security Sector (1998–2003): Securing the ‘International Community’
The Two Logics of Everyday Public Security
Everyday Geographies of Complicity
Of Security Mimicry and Membership
Security as Mediated (Dis)connection
Epilogue: African Assemblages of Private Security
Other Dimensions of the African Security Assemblage
About the Editors and Contributors
Private Security in Africa
：From the Global Assemblage to the Everyday
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