The State Against the State
On April 2nd 2015, the bloody attack on Garissa University College captured and dominated news headlines worldwide. The attack was […]
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Tessa Diphoorn
Dr. Tessa Géraldine Diphoorn is an anthropologist and is currently a post-doctoral researcher within the research project funded by the European Research Council (ERC) titled, “Private-Public Research Assemblages” at the University of Amsterdam. In this project, she is conducting a comparative analysis of private-public security assemblages in Kingston, Jerusalem, and Nairobi. She previous conducted research on private security in Durban, South Africa and her book, "Twilight Policing. Private security and violence in urban South Africa", will be published with the University of California Press in the fall of 2015.