Jana Honke - Transnational Companies and Security Governance: Hybrid Practices in a Postcolonial World

This book examines non-state governance in areas of limited statehood by looking at the security practices of multinational companies.

Since the end of the Cold War, the extractive industries have expanded enormously into areas of limited statehood. In Sub-Saharan Africa, more than 50 per cent of foreign direct investment goes into this sector. This book examines everyday security practices around the sites of some of these multinational mining companies to illustrate a much broader and highly relevant phenomenon: hybrid transnational security governance. Such hybridity characterises external security practices in many other arenas of intervention in our postcolonial world.

The volume analyses the techniques, nodes of actors and spaces of transnational companies security governance in African mining regions. Using examples from the northwest of Johannesburg in South Africa and Southern Katanga in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the book offers an alternative explanation for the findings of similarities and differences in the security practices in these locations and time periods. It argues that different collective meaning systems that work across state boundaries structure local actors perceptions and range of choices of security techniques.

This book will be of interest to students of security and governance, discourse and practice theory, business studies, African politics and international relations.

Jana Hnke is a Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Edinburgh. She is also a senior research associate with the Collaborative Research Centre SFB 700 at Freie Universitt Berlin.

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Hybrid practices in a postcolonial world

Jana Hnke

First published 2013

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Hnke, Jana.

Transnational companies and security governance: hybrid practices in a postcolonial world/Jana Hnke.

p. cm. (PRIO new security studies)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. International business enterprisesSecurity measures. I. Title.

HD61.5.H64 2013

658.47dc23

2012047338

ISBN13: 978-0-415-62206-6 (hbk)

ISBN13: 978-0-203-09679-6 (ebk)

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Many people have accompanied me on the way that eventually led to this book and I would like to thank them for their support, help, encouragement and critiques. All of this helped to shape the books argument and indeed to finish it.

I would like to single out a few people that have been particularly crucial for turning this project into the book that you are holding in your hands. This book started as a doctoral dissertation and therefore I owe much to my supervisors Tanja A. Brzel at Freie Universitt Berlin and Ulf Engel at the University of Leipzig. A few more people read through and commented extensively on various versions of chapters and articles related to the project and/or have been sources of great inspiration and support. I would like to thank, in particular, Jan Bachmann, Christine Hentschel, Markus-Michael Mller, Florian Khn, Rita Abrahamsen, Anna Leander and Clifford Shearing. I also benefitted much from conversations with and comments on individual papers by Deborah Avant, Virginia Haufler, Klaus Schlichte, Didier Bigo, Julia Eckert, Andrea Liese, Stefano Guzzini, Marieke de Goede, Elke Krahmann, Alex Veit, Yvonne Robel, Anja Feth, Anke Draude, Ulrike Hppner, Ulrike Schaper, Shahar Hamairi, Vincent Foucher, Richard Rottenburg, Andreas Mehler, Julia Hornberger, William Walters, Ralph Hamann, Aseem Prakash, Richard Southall, Henning Melber, Anne Dlemeyer, Marianne Braig, Thomas Risse and Christian Thauer. I would also like to thank the participants of the related panels at the International Studies Association, the European Conference on African Studies, the American Political Science Association Conference, and the ECPR Standing Group of IR Conference. I am also grateful for comments from the participants of extremely useful and inspiring workshops, such as the DIIS Copenhagen Markets for Peace Workshop, the Privatization of the Security Field Workshop at the Copenhagen Business School, the Governing Security and Making Space Workshop I organised together with Christine Hentschel and the University of Leipzig Research Group Critical Junctures of Globalization at the Research Centre Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood in Berlin, and the Glocal Practices of Security Governance in the Postcolony Workshop I organised together with my colleague Markus-Michael Mller in Berlin as well.