Cross Border Security in the Southern African Region: Transcending Statolatry

di Inocent Moyo (Autore)

Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2024

This book provides a sophisticated analysis of cross-border challenges and problems in the southern African region. It advances explanations that transcend the state-centric narrative that has nationalised cross-border security. It provides insights from non-state actors such as informal cross-border traders (ICBTs), informal cross-border transporters, undocumented migrants, and cross-border communities. It argues that security needs to be understood beyond a state-centric paradigm by focusing on the political, economic, environmental, and societal threats at macro, meso, and micro levels. The book suggests that at the core of cross-border security challenges in the Southern African region is a post-colonial governmentality. This drives the nationalisation of cross-border security as though it is the only security leading to nation-states, in turn depoliticising and invisibilising the security and livelihoods of ordinary people, even when nation-states claim to be protecting the same. The book will be a useful resource for students, scholars, and researchers of African Studies, Border Studies, Human Geography, Migration Studies, Development Studies, International Studies, International Relations, Political Science, and Security Studies.

• Autore: Inocent Moyo
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Collana: Border Regions Series
• Anno: 2024
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 132 p.
• Dimensioni: 234 x 156 mm
• Peso: 420 gr.
• EAN: 9781032742403

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