The security and development nexus in cape town: War on gangs, counterinsurgency and citizenship

Security Dialogue

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 77-97

  Jensen, Steffen ^a  

^a Research Center for Torture Victims   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Conflict; Gender; Identity; Security; Violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 76049114736     PISSN: 09670106     EISSN: 14603640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0967010609357038     Document Type: Article

References (48)

1. Alexander, Claire, 2000. The Asian Gang: Ethnicity, Identity, Masculinity. London: Berg.
2. Beall, Jo; Thomas Goodfellow & James Putzel, 2006. Introductory Article: On the Discourse of Terrorism, Security and Development, Journal of International Development 18(1): 51- 67.
3. Beinart, William, 2001. Twentieth Century South Africa. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
4. Buur, Lars, 2007. The Intertwined History of Security and Development: The Case of Development Struggles in South Africa, in Lars Buur, Steffen Jensen & Finn Stepputat, eds, The Security-Development Nexus: Expressions of Sovereignty and Securitization in Southern Africa. Cape Town: HSRC (109-131).
5. Duffield, Mark, 2007. Development, Security and Unending War. Governing the World of Peoples. Cambridge: Polity.
6. Fanon, Frantz, 1986. The Wretched of the Earth. London: Penguin.
7. Fernandez, Lovell, 1991. Police Abuses of Non-Political Criminal Suspects: A Survey of Practices in the Cape Peninsula Area. Cape Town: Institute of Criminology, University of Cape Town.
8. Friedman, Roger, 1998. D-Day for Organised Crime, Cape Times, 6 November.
9. Galula, David, [1964] 2005. Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice. New York: Praeger Security International.
10. Glaser, Clive, 2000. 'Bo-Tsotsi': The Youth Gangs of Soweto, 1935-1976. Cape Town: David Philips.
11. Hall, Stuart, 1997. The Spectacle of the Other, in Stuart Hall, ed., Representations: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices. London: Sage (223-290).
12. Hobsbawm, Eric J., 1959. Primitive Rebels. New York & London: W. W. Norton.
13. Holston, James, 2007. Insurgent Citizenship. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
14. Jensen, Steffen, 2001. The Battlefield and the Prize: ANC's Bid to Reform the South African State, in Thomas Hansen & Finn Stepputat, eds, States of Imagination: Ethnographic Explorations of the Post-Colonial State. Durham, NC: Duke (97-122).
15. Jensen, Steffen, 2005. From Development to Security: Political Subjectivity and the South African Transition, Development and Change 36(3): 551-570.
16. Jensen, Steffen, 2006. Capetonian Backstreets: Territorializing Young Men, Ethnography 7(3): 275-302.
17. Jensen, Steffen, 2008. Gangs, Politics & Dignity in Cape Town. Oxford: James Currey.
18. Jensen, Steffen & Dennis Rodgers, 2009. 'Revolutionaries, Barbarians or War Machines: Gangs in Nicaragua and South Africa', Socialist Register 45: 220-238.
19. Keen, David, 2006. War Without End? Magic, Propaganda and the Hidden Functions of Counter-Terror, Journal of International Development 18(1): 87-104.
20. Kilcullen, David, 2006. Twenty-Eight Articles: Fundamentals of Company-Level Counter-Insurgency; available at http://www.d-n-i.net/fcs/pdf/kilcullen_28_articles.pdf (accessed 14 October 2009).
21. McCuen, John, 1966. The Art of Counter-Revolutionary War. London: Faber & Faber.
22. Merten, Marianne & Chiara Carter, 1999. Blast Mocks Police Crackdown, Mail and Guardian, 4 February.
23. Newburn, Tim & Trevor Jones, 2007. Symbolizing Crime Control: Reflections on Zero Tolerance, Theoretical Criminology 11(2): 221-243.
24. Nina, Daniel, 1995. Rethinking Popular Justice: Self-Regulation and Civil Society in South Africa. Cape Town: Community Peace Foundation.
25. Paglen, Trevor & A.C. Thompson, 2006. Torture Taxi: On the trail of the CIA's rendition flights. Cambridge: Icon.
26. Pinnock, Don, 1984. The Brotherhoods: Street Gangs and State Control in Cape Town. Cape Town: David Philips.
27. Poole, Deborah, 1994. Time of Fear. Washington, DC: Latin American Bureau.
28. Rantao, Jovial, 1998. Dullah Omar To Sever Money Lifelines to Gangs, Cape Times, 28 July.
29. Rejali, Darius, 2008. Torture and Democracy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
30. Republic of South Africa, 1998a. The Prevention of Organised Crime Bill, B 118-98. Pretoria: Government Printer.
31. Republic of South Africa, 1998b. White Paper on Local Government. Pretoria: Government Printer.
32. Ross, Robert, 2001. A Concise History of South Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
33. Salo, Elaine, 2004. Respectable Mothers, Tough Men and Good Daughters: Producing Persons in Manenberg Township, South Africa, doctoral dissertation, Department of Social Anthropology, Emory University.
34. Samara, Tony Roshan, 2003. State Security in Transition: The War on Crime in Post-Apartheid South Africa, Social Identities 9(2): 277-312.
35. Sawyer, Clive, 1998. 'Druglords Face No Place To Hide, Cape Argus, 22 May.
36. Schirmer, Jennifer, 1998. The Guatemalan Military Project: A Violence Called Democracy. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press.
37. Simon, Jonathan, 2007. Governing Through Crime: How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
38. Sparks, Alistair, 1990. The Mind of South Africa. London: William Heineman.
39. Standing, Andre, 2006. Organised Crime: A Study from Cape Flats. Pretoria: Institute for Security Studies.
40. Stern, Maria & Joakim Öjendal, 2010. Mapping the Security-Development Nexus: Conflict, Complexity, Cacophony, Convergence?, Security Dialogue 41(1): 5-30.
41. Tshwete, Steven, 2000. Tshwete Talks Tough, Mail and Guardian, 10 November.
42. US Department of the Army, 2006. Counterinsurgency, FM 3-24. Washington, DC: Headquarters, Department of the Army; available at http://www.usgcoin.org/library/doctrine/COIN-FM3-24.pdf (accessed 14 October 2009).
43. Wacquant, Loïc, 1999. How Penal Common Sense Comes to Europeans: Notes on the Transatlantic Diffusion of the Neoliberal doxa, European Societies 1(3): 319-352.
44. Wacquant, Loïc, 2003. Toward a Dictatorship Over the Poor? Notes on the Penalization of Poverty in Brazil, Punishment Society 5(2): 197-205.
45. Wæver, Ole, 1997. Conceptualizing Security, doctoral dissertation, University of Copenhagen.
46. Walters, William, 2008. Anti-Policy and Anti-Politics: Critical Reflections on Certain Schemes to Govern Bad Things, European Journal of Cultural Studies 11(3): 267-288.
47. Western, John, 1996. Outcast Cape Town. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
48. Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1953. Philosophical Investigations. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.