Bonjour à tous,
Nous vous signalons la récente publication des deux articles suivants :
1) Violer la loi pour maintenir l’ordre – by Laurent Gayer.
Laurent Gayer teaches in the Asian Metropolis course in the master GLM (Governing the Large Metropolis, Sciences Po Urban School). This is an excellent special issue on Breaking the Law to Maintain Public Order: Debating Vigilantism.
Abstract
« Vigilantism covers a range of collective actions, often violent and usually illegal, whose proclaimed vocation is to maintain order and/or to render justice in the name of legal or moral norms. With this definition, our aim is not to freeze these practices in an irremovable concept. While presenting the literature and the debates around vigilantism, this introduction argues in favor of a dynamic analysis of citizens’ participation in policing, attentive to the changes occurring along the way in the repertoire of action of the groups under study. Our aim, here, is also to open new research avenues that go beyond the dichotomy substitution/complementarity concerning the relations with law enforcement agencies. »
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2) « Anticrime Activism and the Feminization of Vigilantism in South Africa » – by Laurent Fourchard.
Laurent Fourchard coordinates the Cities of Africa track within the master GLM (Governing the Large Metropolis, Sciences Po Urban School). This is a very very good & important paper on « Anticrime Activism and the Feminization of Vigilantism in South Africa ».
Abstract
« Patrolling and securing one’s neighbourhood is an old practice in South Africa, reflecting a widespread insecurity linked to the high prevalence of violence in urban areas since the colonial period. This long history of citizens’ initiatives in the field of policing is reflected in the now abundant literature dedicated to vigilantism in South Africa. Too often, however, vigilante groups appear as unified and homogeneous. On the basis of two life stories and an ethnographic and historical investigation on the outskirts of Cape Town, we have adopted a different perspective, which emphasizes two points that until now have received scant attention in the literature on vigilantism: its feminization and its biographical dimensions. The moral careers of women for long involved in these groups reveal a series of individual vulnerabilities, be it in their personal, family or professional lives. At the same time, these individual trajectories emphasize the role of the state in shaping citizen initiatives in the field of policing, especially in a context of impoverishment and mass unemployment.”
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Bonnes fêtes !
Edouard
