| Policing Post-Conflict Cities Contributor(s): Hills, Alice (Author) |
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ISBN: 1842779702 ISBN-13: 9781842779705 Publisher: Zed Books OUR PRICE: $40.54 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2009 Annotation: In this book, Alice Hills discusses the interface between social order and security. Though analysts and aid donors generally focus on security, Hills argues that the concept of order is much more meaningful for peoples' lives. Focusing on the police as both providers of order and a measure of its success, the book shows that order depends more on what has gone before than on reconstruction efforts. From Kabul to Kigali and Kinshasa, and in Baghdad and Basra, with security increasingly ghettoized, people make their own rules for survival." Policing Postconflict Cities" provides a powerful critique of the failure of liberal orthodoxy to understand the meaning of order.
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Law Enforcement - Political Science | Peace - Political Science | Political Freedom |
| Dewey: 363.23 |
| LCCN: 2009286347 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.4" W x 8.3" (0.75 lbs) 272 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: How and why does order emerge after conflict? What does it mean in the context of the twenty-first century post-colonial city? From Kabul, Kigali and Kinshasa to Baghdad and Basra, people, abandoned by the state, make their own rules.With security increasingly ghettoised, survival becomes a matter of manipulation and hustling. In this book, Alice Hills discusses the interface between order and security. While analysts and donors emphasise security, Hills argues that order is much more meaningful for people's lives. Focusing on the police as both providers of order and a measure of its success, the book shows that order depends more on what has gone before than on reconstruction efforts and that tension is inevitable as donors attempt to reform brutal local policing. Policing Post-Conflict Cities provides a powerful critique of the failure of liberal orthodoxy to understand the meaning of order. |