Precarious technoscapes: forced mobility and mobile connections at the urban margins

Chonka, Peter; Bakonyi, Jutta

doi:10.5871/jba/009s11.067

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“…In the initial interviews, the importance of mobile connectivity had been emphasized in relation to everyday experiences of (in)security. The ability to contact relatives shapes patterns of migration to (and within) cities, and, with SMS mobile money, phones are vital for buying/selling and accessing assistance from social networks (Chonka and Bakonyi, 2021). Following the project, some participants kept their new smartphones.…”

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Eyes on the ground and eyes in the sky: Security narratives, participatory visual methods and knowledge production in ‘danger zones’

2022

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This article reflects on the use of narrative interviews alongside participatory and remote-access visual methods to produce knowledge on and in conflict-affected settings. It details our iterative and reactive experiences of navigating transnational academic, policy and humanitarian networks to attempt to undertake ethical research on the security experiences of displaced people in Somali cities and facilitate their engagement with policymakers. We explore tensions in the combined use of increasingly accessible digital tools (camera-equipped smartphones and open-access satellite imagery) in facilitating a participatory, narrative-based approach to security research while also mitigating access limitations to research sites. We argue that a holistic and reflexive approach to everyday security within a technologically mediated data-collection process – for both researchers and research participants – not only is important for negotiations around ethical fieldwork, but also can be generative of findings about the research site itself. Methods are not brought into a context and deployed by researchers in ways that are fully under their control. In the case explored here, how the researchers and research participants engaged in dialogue about various methods, reflected their connections within networks of knowledge production dominated by humanitarian donors/partners, while also highlighting important aspects of displaced people’s everyday experiences of (in)security and marginalization in Somali cities.

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Eyes on the ground and eyes in the sky: Security narratives, participatory visual methods and knowledge production in ‘danger zones’

2022

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“…Kihato (2009)'s argument to prioritise urbanisation as the primary cause of insecurities has been widely supported by recent scholars. For instance, urbanisation leads to various forms of insecurity in many countries due to increased demands on the necessity that if people do not get them, they venture into unethical practices (Hoffmann & Verweijen, 2019;Chonka & Bakonyi, 2021;Bjarnesen, 2021).…”

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Preservation of internal security in Namibia: Challenges for the Namibian Police Force

Mabuku¹,

Olutola²

2022

IJRBS

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This study argues that preservation of internal security of Namibia should not be the primary responsibility of only the Namibian Police Force (NamPol). The issue of security has been the subject of interest throughout human existence and still reserves its principal occupation in the public domain. However, the challenges of insecurities and increased threats to human existence domestically and globally have triggered incessantly renewed security inquiry by scholars, security practitioners, politicians and public administrators. The study employed a qualitative approach; interviews were used to purposively collect data from 20 participants which comprised of the heads of directorates, the regional commanders in the Namibian Police Force, Legal Assistance Centre, NamRights, Namibian Defence Force, Namibian Correctional Service and Windhoek Municipal Police. The data was analysed using thematic analysis, which led to the development of the Framework for Performing Internal Security [FPIS] model. The findings indicate that due to the nature of factors linked to insecurities, such as technology, porous borders, political factors, environmental factors, inequality, poverty, unemployment and lack of provision for essential services, the Namibian police alone cannot preserve internal security effectively. As such, the study recommends that constitutional amendments to incorporate other stakeholders in the preservation Namibia’s internal security.

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Smart urbanism in Africa: when theories do not fit with contextual practices

Tonnarelli

Mora

2023

Regional Studies

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Precarious technoscapes: forced mobility and mobile connections at the urban margins

Cited by 4 publications

References 42 publications

Eyes on the ground and eyes in the sky: Security narratives, participatory visual methods and knowledge production in ‘danger zones’

Eyes on the ground and eyes in the sky: Security narratives, participatory visual methods and knowledge production in ‘danger zones’

Preservation of internal security in Namibia: Challenges for the Namibian Police Force

Smart urbanism in Africa: when theories do not fit with contextual practices

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