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Policing post-conflict cities /

How and why does order emerge after conflict? What does it mean in the context of the twenty-first century postcolonial city? From Kabul to Kigali and Kinshasa, in Baghdad and Basra, abandoned by the state, and with security increasingly ghettoised, people make their own rules and survival becomes a...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hills, Alice, 1950-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London, UK : Zed, ©2009.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Order in an urban century
  • Controlling cities
  • International policing
  • Ghetto security
  • Social continuities and the production of order
  • Making their own rules
  • Re-emergent order
  • Challenging orthodoxy.