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Hegemony, Security Infrastructures and the Politics of Crime - Everyday Experiences in South Africa (Hardcover)
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Hegemony, Security Infrastructures and the Politics of Crime - Everyday Experiences in South Africa (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City
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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 to offer
local bottom-up insights into security beyond the state. The book
provides a comprehensive understanding of security beyond the state
and how security workers and residents experience and perceive
their own security practices, their daily interactions with other
security providers which influences power dynamics between those
who express fear through various platforms and those deemed
potential criminals. It aids in re-conceptualising violence and
security governance in South Africa with a view to analysing the
processes of crime prevention and management, the changing nature
of public and private spaces and how these spaces interact with
state and local authorities. In a rigorous exploration of the ways
to tackle the complex problem of crime, the book critiques an
overreliance on security infrastructures such as social media,
gated barriers, neighbourhood residents' associations and private
security companies. It also looks at how crime is treated as an
individual as opposed to a societal problem. The book addresses the
urgent need for collaboration across these fault lines to promote a
more inclusive security in a broader fragmented social and
political context. With a novel analytical approach based on the
twin optics of infrastructure and post-structural hegemony, the
book will be relevant to scholars and students of South African
politics and critical security studies, as well as international
audience interested in crime and private security.
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