Rebel rule: A governmentality perspective

Hoffmann, Kasper; Verweijen, Judith

doi:10.1093/afraf/ady039

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“…Moreover, a good maître knows how to secure access to state patronage networks around the PNC, ANR and FARDC officials, and the municipal authorities. Similar to the argument of Hoffmann & Verweijen (2019) concerning Mai-Mai rebels in the Kivus, to operate effectively, anti-gang leaders in turn need 'fatherly' protection (patronage) from state officials (see also Hendriks M. 2018). In short, as Pype (2007) writes on similar groups of sportifs in Kinshasa, they are 'at once patron and client' (Pype 2007: 259).…”

Section: The Fathermentioning

confidence: 97%

Imagining the anti-gang: the state, the father and Jean-Claude Van Damme

Hendriks¹

2021

JBA

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Empirically focusing on the so-called anti-gang, a civilian policing group in the city of Goma (DRC), this article examines the nexus between the workings of the imagination and the politics of everyday policing. Four forms of political imaginations through which the anti-gang imagine themselves as everyday policing actors are identified: political imaginations around the state, citizenship, the father, and martial arts and action movies. The article makes two main arguments. First, political imaginations are not merely fantasies. Instead, the anti-gang harness them to do political work and impose themselves as street authorities. In doing so, they in turn contribute to giving form to these political imaginations, by making them tangible and experienced as real in everyday urban life. Second, the article asserts that the political imaginations that shape and are shaped by anti-gang practices show that they do not so much propose a new political order. Instead, they seek to be included in it, escape marginalisation and become politically significant.

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Section: The Fathermentioning

confidence: 97%

Imagining the anti-gang: the state, the father and Jean-Claude Van Damme

Hendriks¹

2021

JBA

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“…The societies of Fizi and Uvira have become militarised (Verweijen 2016), with armed groups having extensive networks among civilian populations and exerting multifaceted forms of power over rural societies (Hoffmann and Verweijen 2018). This background is crucial to understanding the penetration of dynamics of violence into the school environment.…”

Section: A Regional History Of Violent Conflictmentioning

confidence: 99%

BRiCE Project DRC and Niger: Endline Report Teacher Wellbeing and Teaching Quality in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Contexts

Marchais¹,

Brandt²,

Stevens³

et al. 2022

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This report presents the final results of the Building Resilience in Crisis through Education (BRiCE) research project, which is led by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) and the Institut Supérieur Pédagogique de Bukavu (ISP Bukavu). The research project is part of the BRiCE education programme funded by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for International Partnerships and led by Save the Children in Niger and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). This report presents the results of the endline evaluation of two components of the BRiCE education programme: Teacher Professional Development (TPD) and Improving Learning Environments Together (ILET). It also presents an in-depth analysis of teacher wellbeing and teaching quality in the regions of Zinder and Diffa in Niger, and the territories Uvira and Fizi in South Kivu province in the DRC. The report summarises the final results of the project regarding the causes and consequences of violence against teachers, and also investigates teacher’s knowledge on how to deal with the effects of violent conflict at school.

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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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Rebel rule: A governmentality perspective

Cited by 33 publications

References 9 publications

Imagining the anti-gang: the state, the father and Jean-Claude Van Damme

Imagining the anti-gang: the state, the father and Jean-Claude Van Damme

BRiCE Project DRC and Niger: Endline Report Teacher Wellbeing and Teaching Quality in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Contexts

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

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