Paul Higate is a reader in gender and security at the University of Bristol.Mats Utas is a senior lecturer in the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology at Uppsala University. He is the editor of African Conflicts and Informal Power (Zed 2012).

A key strength of the book is its use of empirical findings for a new theorization of how we are to understand private security in the African continent … I would recommend this book to students, academics interested in security studies, including policy analysts in both public and private spaces.'

• Introduction - Paul Higate1. Golden Assemblages: Security and Development in Tanzania's Gold Mines - Rita Abrahamsen and Michael Williams2. Failed, Fake or Weak State: The Role of Private Security in Somalia - William Reno3. Private Security Beyond the Private Sector: Community Policing and Secret Societies in Sierra Leone - Peter Albrecht4. The Underbelly of Global Security: Sierra Leoneans in Iraq - Maya Mynster Christensen5. Who do you Call? Private Security Policing in Durban, South Africa - Tessa Diphoorn6. Security Sector Reform as Trojan Horse? New Security Assemblages of Privatised Military Training in Liberia - Marcus Mohlin7. Political Becoming and Non-State Emergence in Kenya's Security Sector: Mungiki as Security Operator - Jacob Rasmussen8. Parapluies Politiques: The Everyday Politics of Private Security in the Democratic Republic of the Congo - Peer SchoutenEpilogue: African Assemblages of private security - Mats Utas

Paul Higate is a reader in gender and security at the University of Bristol.Mats Utas is a senior lecturer in the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology at Uppsala University. He is the editor of African Conflicts and Informal Power (Zed 2012).

A key strength of the book is its use of empirical findings for a new theorization of how we are to understand private security in the African continent … I would recommend this book to students, academics interested in security studies, including policy analysts in both public and private spaces.'

• Introduction - Paul Higate1. Golden Assemblages: Security and Development in Tanzania's Gold Mines - Rita Abrahamsen and Michael Williams2. Failed, Fake or Weak State: The Role of Private Security in Somalia - William Reno3. Private Security Beyond the Private Sector: Community Policing and Secret Societies in Sierra Leone - Peter Albrecht4. The Underbelly of Global Security: Sierra Leoneans in Iraq - Maya Mynster Christensen5. Who do you Call? Private Security Policing in Durban, South Africa - Tessa Diphoorn6. Security Sector Reform as Trojan Horse? New Security Assemblages of Privatised Military Training in Liberia - Marcus Mohlin7. Political Becoming and Non-State Emergence in Kenya's Security Sector: Mungiki as Security Operator - Jacob Rasmussen8. Parapluies Politiques: The Everyday Politics of Private Security in the Democratic Republic of the Congo - Peer SchoutenEpilogue: African Assemblages of private security - Mats Utas

Paul Higate is a reader in gender and security at the University of Bristol.Mats Utas is a senior lecturer in the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology at Uppsala University. He is the editor of African Conflicts and Informal Power (Zed 2012).

A key strength of the book is its use of empirical findings for a new theorization of how we are to understand private security in the African continent … I would recommend this book to students, academics interested in security studies, including policy analysts in both public and private spaces.'

• Introduction - Paul Higate1. Golden Assemblages: Security and Development in Tanzania's Gold Mines - Rita Abrahamsen and Michael Williams2. Failed, Fake or Weak State: The Role of Private Security in Somalia - William Reno3. Private Security Beyond the Private Sector: Community Policing and Secret Societies in Sierra Leone - Peter Albrecht4. The Underbelly of Global Security: Sierra Leoneans in Iraq - Maya Mynster Christensen5. Who do you Call? Private Security Policing in Durban, South Africa - Tessa Diphoorn6. Security Sector Reform as Trojan Horse? New Security Assemblages of Privatised Military Training in Liberia - Marcus Mohlin7. Political Becoming and Non-State Emergence in Kenya's Security Sector: Mungiki as Security Operator - Jacob Rasmussen8. Parapluies Politiques: The Everyday Politics of Private Security in the Democratic Republic of the Congo - Peer SchoutenEpilogue: African Assemblages of private security - Mats Utas