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The security-development nexus: expressions of sovereignty and securitization in Southern Africa 2007 (English)Collection (editor) (Other academic)

Abstract [en]

The link between security and development has been rediscovered after 9/11 by a broad range of scholars. Focusing on Southern Africa, the Security-Development Nexus shows that the much debated linkage is by no means a recent invention. Rather, the security/development linkage has been an important element of the state policies of colonial as well as post-colonial regimes during the Cold War, and it seems to be prospering in new configurations under the present wave of democratic transitions. Contributors focus on a variety of contexts from South Africa, Mozambique and Namibia, to Zimbabwe and Democratic Congo; they explore the nexus and our understanding of security and development through the prism of peace-keeping interventions, community policing, human rights, gender, land contests, squatters, nation and state-building, social movements, DDR programmes and the different trajectories democratization has taken in different parts of the region.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages

Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet; HSRC Press , 2007. , p. 284

Keywords [en]

violence, crime, economic and social development, politics, government policy, state, international relations, peaceful coexistence, citizenship, human security, regional security, South Africa, Mozambique, Namibia, Zimbabwe

National Category

Political Science (excluding Public Administration Studies and Globalisation Studies)

Identifiers

URN: urn:nbn:se:nai:diva-494ISBN: 978-91-7106-583-4; 978-0-7969-2184-0 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:nai-494DiVA, id: diva2:275697

Note

CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION –- The Security-Development Nexus/Lars Buur, Steffen Jensen and Finn Stepputat -- INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL BOUNDARIES -- You Do Need a Stick to Be Able to Use It Gently – The South African Armed Forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo/Thomas Mandrup Jørgensen -- The Nationalist Imperative – South Africanisation, Regional Integration and Mobile Livelihoods/Steffen Jensen and Lars Buur -- Namibia’s Pariah Heroes – Swapo Ex-Combatants Between the Liberation Gospel and Security Interests/Lalli Metsola and Henning Melber -- STATES, DEVELOPMENT AND VERNACULAR SECURITY -- The Intertwined History of Security and Development – The Case of Developmental Struggles in South Africa’s Townships/Lars Buur -- The Politics of Policing – Recapturing “Zones of Confusion” in Rural Post-War Mozambique/Helene Maria Kyed -- Militarising Politics and Development – The Case of Post-Independence Namibia/Guy Lamb -- Struggling for the City – Evictions in Inner-City Johannesburg/Jacob Rasmussen -- IDENTITY, VIOLENCE AND RIGHTS -- Through the Lens of Crime – Land Claims and Contestations of Citizenship on the Frontier of the South African State/Steffen Jensen -- Criminality, Security and Development – Post-Colonial Reversals in Zimbabwe’s Margins/Amanda Hammar -- Post-Apartheid South Africa – Gender, Rights and the Politics of Recognition. New Avenues for Old Forms of Violence?/Tina SiderisAvailable from: 2009-11-06 Created: 2009-11-02 Last updated: 2025-09-12Bibliographically approved

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