Order and Security in (post)colonial Africa (XXth century) - Einzelansicht

This seminar aims to provide an overview (conceptual and methodological through concrete case studies) of various issues related to order and security on the African continent over the long term, from the colonial period to nowadays: security forces (police, army, para-military forces, vigilantes, etc.), day-to-day implementation of social order and suppression of marginality (through confinement, forced labor, psychiatric asylum, etc.), and political dynamics (coup, rebellion, wars against “terrorism”, etc.)

The sessions will be structured around the analysis of mandatory readings and collective work on different materials and sources: archives, scientific articles, audiovisual documents, think-thank reports, press, etc. 

-   Blanchard E., Bloembergen M., Lauro A., “Tensions of Policing in Colonial Situations”, in Blanchard E., Bloembergen M., Lauro A., Policing in Colonial Empires. Cases, Connections, Boundaries (ca. 1850-1970), Peter Lang, Bruxelles, 2018, (read only 11-28)

-   Bierschenk T., “Who are the Police in Africa?”, in Beek J., Gopfert M., Owen O., Police in Africa: The Street Level View, London, Hurst, 2017. 

-   Muschalek M., “Intimacy, comradeship and everyday police violence: the rape of Sophie M. in German South West Africa in 1910”, Africa, 94, 37-56. 

-   Hornberger J., Le Marcis F. and Morelle M., “Introduction: thinking with prisons in Africa”, in J. Hornberger, F. Le Marcis and M. Morelle (eds.), Confinement, Punishment and Prisons in Africa, New York, Routledge, 2021, 

-   Vaughan M., “Introduction”, in M. Vaughan and S. Mahone (eds.), Psychiatry and Empire, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, 1-16.

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