Full Description
Vigilantes and organised vigilantism are a growing phenomenon, as this book amply demonstrates. From Northern Ireland to West Africa, from Bombay or Moscow, vigilante movements and ideologies have widespread appeal. Whether as localised 'self-policing' of crime and other forms of social behaviour, or as surveillance of drug trafficking or terrorism, vigilantes patrol the frontiers that emerge as transnational global flows meet real or imagined political borders. "Global Vigilantes" is the first book to offer a comprehensive overview of contemporary vigilantism in its relation to different members of society and to state authorities. It explores how vigilantes produce and reproduce themselves within shifting climates of hate and fear; it addresses their historical antecedents; explores the cults and cultures of conflict associated with vigilantism, and analyses the modes, meanings and methods of vigilante vilolence.
Contents
Contents Preface -- Introduction: Anthropological Perspectives on Vigilantism -- Urban Fear and the Moral Order of the Lynch Mob -- Vigilantes and the Politics of Violence in Kenya -- Vigilantism, Corporal Punishment and Order in the Port Elizabeth Townships -- The Practice of Nigerian Vigilantism -- The Production of Sexualities in Hindu Nationalism -- Women Vigilantes and Raw Justice in the Bombay Slums -- Policing Nkomazi, South Africa -- The Maoist Communist Centre and the State in Jharkhand, India -- Gangs, Violence, and Social Order in Urban Nicaragua -- Formal Outsourcing of Vigilance and Policing to Non-state Authorities: the Case of Traditional Leaders in Post-War Mozambique -- Fear, Vigilantism, and the Politics of Islam in Northern Nigeria -- Honour, Retribution and Reparative Justice among West Bank Palestinians -- Lynching and Post-War Community Conflict & Modernity in Guatemala -- The Spectacle of Surveillance on the U.S.-Mexico Border -- Territory, Violence and Vigilantism in the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1978) -- Private Security and Public Insecurity: How Russians Look to Alternative Sources of Protection and Enforcement -- Variations of Vigilantism in the Spanish-Basque context -- Informal Justice and the Control of Public Order in Northern Ireland -- Continuing Vigilantism in Urban Northern Ireland
