Full Description
This book provides a sophisticated analysis of cross-border challenges and problems in the southern African region. It advances explanations that transcend the state-centric narrative that has nationalised cross-border security.
It provides insights from non-state actors such as informal cross-border traders (ICBTs), informal cross-border transporters, undocumented migrants, and cross-border communities. It argues that security needs to be understood beyond a state-centric paradigm by focusing on the political, economic, environmental, and societal threats at macro, meso, and micro levels. The book suggests that at the core of cross-border security challenges in the Southern African region is a post-colonial governmentality. This drives the nationalisation of cross-border security as though it is the only security leading to nation-states, in turn depoliticising and invisibilising the security and livelihoods of ordinary people, even when nation-states claim to be protecting the same.
The book will be a useful resource for students, scholars, and researchers of African Studies, Border Studies, Human Geography, Migration Studies, Development Studies, International Studies, International Relations, Political Science, and Security Studies.
Contents
Chapter 1: The cross-border security conundrum in the Southern African region
Chapter 2: On security and cross-border security
Chapter 3: Borders, orders, and postcolonial governmentality
Chapter 4: Border management, neopatrimonialism, and cross-border security
Chapter 5: The poverty of the cross-border illegalities narrative
Chapter 6: Covid-19 border closures and cross-border security
Chapter 7: Transcending statolatry
