| Record Type: |
Language materials, printed
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Global vigilantes // David Pratten, Atreyee Sen, editors. |
| other author: |
Sen, Atreyee. |
| Published: |
New York :Columbia University Press, : c2008., |
| Description: |
xii, 448 p. :ill. ;23 cm. |
| Notes: |
Papers originally presented at a workshop, Global Vigilantes, held at the University of Sussex on July 8-9, 2005. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
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. |
| Subject: |
Vigilantes - Congresses. - |
| Online resource: |
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0719/2007020988.html |
| ISBN: |
9780231700085 (hbk.) |