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Royal Danish Defence College
2016-2024
Danish Institute against Torture
2017-2018
Sciences Po Bordeaux
2017
Aarhus University
2011
Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency
2008
Nordic Africa Institute
2008
Swedish Academy
2008
Jilin University
2008
State Key Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Preparative Chemistry
2008
University of Liverpool
2008
Journal Article Mercenaries of democracy: The 'Politricks' remobilized combatants in the 2007 general elections, Sierra Leone Get access Maya M. Christensen, Christensen (maya.christensen@anthro.ku.dk) is a doctoral candidate Department Anthropology at University Copenhagen. Mats Utas [mats.utas@nai.uu.se] researcher Nordic Africa Institute and Royal Swedish Academy Letters, History Antiquities. Both have conducted long-term fieldwork Freetown among ex-combatants who came to be during...
This special issue introduces a conceptual framework for ethnographies of urban policing that foregrounds how defining features the city produce police work, and in turn, work produces city. To address mutually productive relationship shape current transformations ordering space, notions borders bordering are invoked. In contemporary cities across global North South, practices reconfigured to mobilities flows deemed threaten social order have thus become manifestations fear anxiety linked...
In the aftermath of Sierra Leone civil war, demobilized militia soldiers have become an attractive resource to private security companies. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, this article traces outsourcing at American military bases in Iraq Leonean ex-militias, facilitated by a British company and government. doing so, contributes ongoing scholarly debate privatization offering “local” ethnographically informed perspective micro-dynamics “global” security. It is argued that supply...
This article explores the political mobilization of ex- militias for support during post-war elections in Sierra Leone. Taking its point departure from tension between militias' potential deployment and displacement violence, it illuminates ambiguous ways which ex-militia members engage with big men. The suggests that notion debt can be employed as a prism to explain complexities social relations rank-and-file elites thus aims at shedding novel light on how men systems patronage work...
Collecting data and working with classified information in restricted military settings can present significant research challenges. Academic ideals of transparency openness clash the military’s need for secrecy closedness. This article engages existing literature on security requirements ethics discussing practical challenges researchers face research. Even though principles are often perceived as opposites, they also share characteristics: both realms context-driven, non-objective,...
Through the case of Ghana, this article proposes a link between international peacekeeping deployments and national processes stabilisation. Based on fieldwork among soldiers police officers, it explores how experiences are transferred translated into security provision at home within field counterterrorism. Introducing notion ‘peacekeeping-counterterrorism assemblage’ as an analytical lens for unpacking co-production external internal and, more specifically, practices through which become...
Contemporary warfare depends on private security contractors from countries in the Global South. In Sierra Leone, this dependency has produced emerging markets for military and companies (PMSCs) seeking to recruit cheap, military-experienced labor. This article explores how demobilized militia soldiers Leone negotiate categorical divides make themselves employable contracting Iraq. Based 19 months of fieldwork tracing as they move between shift ing constellations, introduces notion “shadow...
The preemptive turn in counterterrorism has turned future uncertainties into key objects of contemporary security governance. From an empirically grounded perspective, this article contributes with novel insight the everyday practices politics. Focusing on Ghana as a unique case through which to trace how mobilization affect accelerates transnational proliferation measures and commodification uncertainty, it shows global War Terror shaped emergence context characterized by absence terrorist...
This Whitehall Paper converted into a book on security sector reform in Sierra Leone offers unique empirical insight the politics of international interventions changing global landscape. Based extensive analysis British contribution to processes stabilization and state building through Leone, earlier publications by authors, study provides important knowledge how are experienced negotiated key strategic actors. The study, however, would have benefitted from more critical look at how,...
While divided cities are characterized by spatially cemented segregation and polarized divisions, the trembling city is organized around transient transformative borders. We conceptualize this notion of urban space to capture Freetown’s war-peace transition in late 1990s early 2000s. Ex-combatants settled on margins, bringing with them spatial strategies from war-fighting into recreating a system bases. The Sierra Leone Police (SLP) re-emerged external support, seeking compartmentalize...
The precisely defined interior cavities of porous metal-organic frameworks with a high degree chemical diversity are attractive for selective sorption.We describe family amino-acid based open (1) which display chirally sorption that is highly specific to the functional group disposition within sorbed molecules.The nature interaction between framework and sorbate revealed by computational approaches used in proteinligand docking.The materials also hosts observation reactions atomic-scale...