The Politics of Protection: Perspectives on Vigilantism in Nigeria
The Politics of Protection: Perspectives on Vigilantism in Nigeria
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保护的政治：尼日利亚私刑主义的视角
DOI：
10.3366/e0001972008000028
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发表时间：
2008
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影响因子：
1.2
通讯作者：
D. Pratten
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作者：
D. Pratten
自卫行为已成为尼日利亚社会和政治格局的一个普遍特征。作为对盗窃和武装抢劫的普遍反应，夜间警卫和治安维持团体的出现在尼日利亚有着悠久而多样的历史。然而，自 1999 年恢复民主以来，尼日利亚见证了私刑活动的泛滥：私刑团体在从血统到种族群体的各个层面、从村庄区到城市街道的不同地点、出于打击犯罪到政治游说等各种原因组织起来。事实上，私刑活动已经捕捉到了如此广泛的地方、国家和国际动态，为研究尼日利亚政治经济及其最棘手问题——民主政治、种族和宗教——的学生提供了一个清晰聚焦的镜头。当代尼日利亚私刑活动涉及非正式司法之外的一系列当地和全球动态。
Vigilantism has become an endemic feature of the Nigerian social and political landscape. The emergence of night guards and vigilante groups as popular responses to theft and armed robbery has a long and varied history in Nigeria. Since the return to democracy in 1999, however, Nigeria has witnessed a proliferation of vigilantism: vigilante groups have organized at a variety of levels from lineage to ethnic group, in a variety of locations from village ward to city street, and for a variety of reasons from crime fighting to political lobbying. Indeed, vigilantism has captured such a range of local, national and international dynamics that it provides a sharply focused lens for students of Nigeria's political economy and its most intractable issues – the politics of democracy, ethnicity and religion. Contemporary Nigerian vigilantism concerns a range of local and global dynamics beyond informal justice.