Cross Border Security in the Southern African Region

Transcending Statolatry
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-74242-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 142 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 260 g

Reihe: Border Regions Series

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.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moyo, Inocent

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: The cross-border security conundrum in the Southern African region

Chapter 2: On security and cross-border security

Chapter 3: Borders, orders, and postcolonial governmentality

Chapter 4: Border management, neopatrimonialism, and cross-border security

Chapter 5: The poverty of the cross-border illegalities narrative

Chapter 6: Covid-19 border closures and cross-border security

Chapter 7: Transcending statolatry

Über Autor(innen)

Inocent Moyo is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies and the Deputy Dean of Research, Innovation, and Internationalisation, in the Faculty of Science, Agriculture and Engineering at the University of Zululand, South Africa. He researches borders, migration, and the political economy of the informal economy in the Southern African region.