Cross Border Security in the Southern African Region
Transcending Statolatry
- 142 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- 1 The cross-border security conundrum in the Southern African region
- 2 On security and cross-border security
- 3 Borders, orders, and postcolonial governmentality
- 4 Border management, neopatrimonialism, and cross-border security
- 5 The poverty of the cross-border illegalities narrative
- 6 Covid-19 border closures and cross-border security
- 7 Transcending statolatry
- Index