Governing (in)security in a postcolonial world: Transnational entanglements and the worldliness of 'local' practice

Security Dialogue

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 383-401

  Hönke, Jana ^a   Müller, Markus Michael ^b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

ethnography; methodology; postcoloniality; practice approaches; security governance; security studies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867689059     PISSN: 09670106     EISSN: 14603640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0967010612458337     Document Type: Article

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