Chiefs, Policing, and Vigilantes: “Cleaning Up” the Caprivi Borderland of Namibia
Chiefs, Policing, and Vigilantes: “Cleaning Up” the Caprivi Borderland of Namibia
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酋长、警察和义务警员:“清理”纳米比亚卡普里维边境
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2007
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Wolfgang Zeller
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Wolfgang Zeller
Scholars examining practices of territorial control and administrative action in sub-Saharan Africa have in recent years drawn attention to the analytical problems of locating their proponents unambiguously within or outside the realm of the state (Lund 2001; Englebert 2002; Nugent 2002; Chabal and Daloz 1999; Bayart et al. 1999). This chapter analyzes situations in which state practices intersect with non-state practices in the sense of the state- (and donor-) sponsored outsourcing of policing functions to chiefs and vigilantes, where chiefs act as lower-tier representatives of state authority. My point of departure is an administrative reform introduced by the Namibian Minister of Home Affairs, Jerry Ekandjo, in August 2002, which took place in the town Bukalo in Namibia’s northeastern Caprivi Region. Bukalo is the residence of the chief of the Subiya people and his khuta (Silozi, council of chiefs and advisors).1