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“Peacekeeping” as Occupation: Managing the Market for Violent Labor in Somalia[Note 1. This paper was presented originally as a talk given ...]
Author(s) -
AlBulushi Samar
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
transforming anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.325
H-Index - 9
eISSN - 1548-7466
pISSN - 1051-0559
DOI - 10.1111/traa.12026
Subject(s) - peacekeeping , operationalization , software deployment , politics , corporate governance , political economy , political science , work (physics) , sociology , law , economics , engineering , mechanical engineering , philosophy , software engineering , epistemology , finance
As the “war on terror” expands across the African continent, multilateral institutions assume key roles in the deployment of newly militarized sociopolitical formations to physically and militarily occupy ‘ungoverned’ spaces. Focusing on the African Union Peacekeeping Operation in Somalia ( AMISOM ), this article explores the everyday legitimating work required to operationalize the demand for reserve armies, offering insights into the relationship between transnational governance, political economy, and the making of security states.