Performers of sovereignty: On the privatization of security in urban South Africa

Critique of Anthropology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 279-295

  Hansen, Thomas Blom ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Policing; Private security; Race; South Africa; Sovereignty

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747596434     PISSN: 0308275X     EISSN: 14603721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0308275X06066583     Document Type: Review

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