Sovereignty has returned as a central concern in anthropology. This reinvention seeks to
explore de facto sovereignty, ie, the ability to kill, punish, and discipline with impunity. The …

Vigilantism is theoretically and empirically important for political science, because it is
closely related to core concepts like power, order, state-building, and collective action. Yet …

This paper considers an emerging practice whereby citizen's use of ubiquitous and
domesticated technologies enable a parallel form of criminal justice. Here, weaponised …

The anthropology of policing draws from a range of intellectual traditions to generate new
understandings of the police as an institution and policing as a social practice. This article …

The post-cold war era has seen an unmistakable trend toward the proliferation of violent non-
state groups-variously labeled terrorists, rebels, paramilitaries, gangs, and criminals-near …

The practice of vigilantism raises a number of broader provocative questions regarding state–
society relations. But before pursuing these questions, we must first ask a critical conceptual …

The Era of Transitional Justice explores a broad set of issues raised by political transition
and transitional justice through the prism of the South African TRC. South Africa constitutes a …

An analysis of the role of Muslims from South Africa's founding to the present and points to
the resonance of these discussions beyond South Africa. How do Muslims fit into South …

Why do individuals or groups support vigilantism as a means of conflict resolution? Most
researchers tend to agree that support for and participation in vigilantism occurs in “stateless …

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 …