The security-development nexus : expressions of sovereignty and securitization in Southern Africa

Abstract

The link between security and development has been rediscovered after 9/11 by a broad range of scholars. Focusing on Southern Africa, the Security-Development Nexus shows that the much debated linkage is by no means a recent invention. Rather, the security/development linkage has been an important element of the state policies of colonial as well as post-colonial regimes during the Cold War, and it seems to be prospering in new configurations under the present wave of democratic transitions. Contributors focus on a variety of contexts from South Africa, Mozambique and Namibia, to Zimbabwe and Democratic Congo; they explore the nexus and our understanding of security and development through the prism of peace-keeping interventions, community policing, human rights, gender, land contests, squatters, nation and state-building, social movements, DDR programmes and the different trajectories democratization has taken in different parts of the region.

CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION –- The Security-Development Nexus/Lars Buur, Steffen Jensen and Finn Stepputat -- INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL BOUNDARIES -- You Do Need a Stick to Be Able to Use It Gently – The South African Armed Forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo/Thomas Mandrup Jørgensen -- The Nationalist Imperative – South Africanisation, Regional Integration and Mobile Livelihoods/Steffen Jensen and Lars Buur -- Namibia’s Pariah Heroes – Swapo Ex-Combatants Between the Liberation Gospel and Security Interests/Lalli Metsola and Henning Melber -- STATES, DEVELOPMENT AND VERNACULAR SECURITY -- The Intertwined History of Security and Development – The Case of Developmental Struggles in South Africa’s Townships/Lars Buur -- The Politics of Policing – Recapturing “Zones of Confusion” in Rural Post-War Mozambique/Helene Maria Kyed -- Militarising Politics and Development – The Case of Post-Independence Namibia/Guy Lamb -- Struggling for the City – Evictions in Inner-City Johannesburg/Jacob Rasmussen -- IDENTITY, VIOLENCE AND RIGHTS -- Through the Lens of Crime – Land Claims and Contestations of Citizenship on the Frontier of the South African State/Steffen Jensen -- Criminality, Security and Development – Post-Colonial Reversals in Zimbabwe’s Margins/Amanda Hammar -- Post-Apartheid South Africa – Gender, Rights and the Politics of Recognition. New Avenues for Old Forms of Violence?/Tina Sideris