Maya Mynster Christensen
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 888764 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Maya Mynster Christensen |
| NOMBRES | Maya Mynster |
| APELLIDO | Christensen |
| FIRMA | CHRISTENSEN M M |
| AFILIACIONES | Royal Danish Defence College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3424-8584 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 10 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 114 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2008 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Assembling UN Peacekeeping and Counterterrorism in Ghana
Through the case of Ghana, this article proposes a link between international peacekeeping deployments and national processes of stabilisation. Based on fieldwork among soldiers and police officers, it explores how peacekeeping experiences are transferred and translated into security provision at home within the field of counterterrorism. Introducing the notion of the ‘peacekeeping-counterterrorism assemblage’ as an analytical lens for unpacking …
Assessing threatening uncertainties
The preemptive turn in counterterrorism has turned future uncertainties into key objects of contemporary security governance. From an empirically grounded perspective, this article contributes with novel insight into the everyday practices of preemptive politics. Focusing on Ghana as a unique case through which to trace how the mobilization of affect accelerates the transnational proliferation of counterterrorism measures and the commodification …
Trembling city
While divided cities are characterized by spatially cemented segregation and polarized divisions, the trembling city is organized around transient and transformative borders. We conceptualize this notion of urban space to capture Freetown’s war-peace transition in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Ex-combatants settled on the city margins, bringing with them spatial strategies from war-fighting into the city by recreating a system of bases. The Sie…
Urban borderwork
This special issue introduces a conceptual framework for ethnographies of urban policing that foregrounds how defining features of the city produce police work, and in turn, how police work produces the city. To address how the mutually productive relationship of policing and the city shape current transformations in the ordering of urban space, the notions of borders and bordering are invoked. In contemporary cities across the global North and S…
Shadow Soldiering
Contemporary warfare depends on private security contractors from countries in the Global South. In Sierra Leone, this dependency has produced emerging markets for private military and security companies (PMSCs) seeking to recruit cheap, military-experienced labor. This article explores how demobilized militia and soldiers in Sierra Leone negotiate categorical divides to make themselves employable for private security contracting in Iraq. Based o…
Securing Sierra Leone 1997-2013
This Whitehall Paper converted into a book on security sector reform in Sierra Leone offers unique empirical insight into the politics of international interventions in a changing global security landscape. Based on extensive analysis of the British contribution to processes of stabilization and state building through security sector reform in Sierra Leone, and building on earlier publications by the authors, the study provides important knowledg…
The Gift of Violence
This article explores the political mobilization of ex- militias for support during post-war elections in Sierra Leone. Taking its point of departure from the tension between ex- militias’ potential for deployment and displacement of violence, it illuminates the ambiguous ways in which ex-militia members engage with political big men. The article suggests that the notion of debt can be employed as a prism to explain the complexities of social rel…
The Underbelly of Global Security
In the aftermath of the Sierra Leone civil war, demobilized militia soldiers have become an attractive resource to private security companies. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, this article traces the outsourcing of security at American military bases in Iraq to Sierra Leonean ex-militias, facilitated by a British security company and the Sierra Leone government. In doing so, the article contributes to the ongoing scholarly debate on the…
Big Man business in the borderland of Sierra Leone
Mercenaries of democracy
Journal Article Mercenaries of democracy: The 'Politricks' of remobilized combatants in the 2007 general elections, Sierra Leone Get access Maya M. Christensen, Maya M. Christensen Maya Christensen ([email protected]) is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen. Mats Utas [[email protected]] is a researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute and the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History …
Mercenaries of democracy
Journal Article Mercenaries of democracy: The 'Politricks' of remobilized combatants in the 2007 general elections, Sierra Leone Get access Maya M. Christensen, Maya M. Christensen Maya Christensen ([email protected]) is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen. Mats Utas [[email protected]] is a researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute and the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History …
Urban borderwork
This special issue introduces a conceptual framework for ethnographies of urban policing that foregrounds how defining features of the city produce police work, and in turn, how police work produces the city. To address how the mutually productive relationship of policing and the city shape current transformations in the ordering of urban space, the notions of borders and bordering are invoked. In contemporary cities across the global North and S…
The Gift of Violence
This article explores the political mobilization of ex- militias for support during post-war elections in Sierra Leone. Taking its point of departure from the tension between ex- militias’ potential for deployment and displacement of violence, it illuminates the ambiguous ways in which ex-militia members engage with political big men. The article suggests that the notion of debt can be employed as a prism to explain the complexities of social rel…
Assessing threatening uncertainties
The preemptive turn in counterterrorism has turned future uncertainties into key objects of contemporary security governance. From an empirically grounded perspective, this article contributes with novel insight into the everyday practices of preemptive politics. Focusing on Ghana as a unique case through which to trace how the mobilization of affect accelerates the transnational proliferation of counterterrorism measures and the commodification …
Shadow Soldiering
Contemporary warfare depends on private security contractors from countries in the Global South. In Sierra Leone, this dependency has produced emerging markets for private military and security companies (PMSCs) seeking to recruit cheap, military-experienced labor. This article explores how demobilized militia and soldiers in Sierra Leone negotiate categorical divides to make themselves employable for private security contracting in Iraq. Based o…
The Underbelly of Global Security
In the aftermath of the Sierra Leone civil war, demobilized militia soldiers have become an attractive resource to private security companies. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, this article traces the outsourcing of security at American military bases in Iraq to Sierra Leonean ex-militias, facilitated by a British security company and the Sierra Leone government. In doing so, the article contributes to the ongoing scholarly debate on the…
Trembling city
While divided cities are characterized by spatially cemented segregation and polarized divisions, the trembling city is organized around transient and transformative borders. We conceptualize this notion of urban space to capture Freetown’s war-peace transition in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Ex-combatants settled on the city margins, bringing with them spatial strategies from war-fighting into the city by recreating a system of bases. The Sie…
Mercenaries of democracy
Journal Article Mercenaries of democracy: The 'Politricks' of remobilized combatants in the 2007 general elections, Sierra Leone Get access Maya M. Christensen, Maya M. Christensen Maya Christensen ([email protected]) is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen. Mats Utas [[email protected]] is a researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute and the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History …
Big Man business in the borderland of Sierra Leone
The Underbelly of Global Security
In the aftermath of the Sierra Leone civil war, demobilized militia soldiers have become an attractive resource to private security companies. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, this article traces the outsourcing of security at American military bases in Iraq to Sierra Leonean ex-militias, facilitated by a British security company and the Sierra Leone government. In doing so, the article contributes to the ongoing scholarly debate on the…
Securing Sierra Leone 1997-2013
This Whitehall Paper converted into a book on security sector reform in Sierra Leone offers unique empirical insight into the politics of international interventions in a changing global security landscape. Based on extensive analysis of the British contribution to processes of stabilization and state building through security sector reform in Sierra Leone, and building on earlier publications by the authors, the study provides important knowledg…
The Gift of Violence
This article explores the political mobilization of ex- militias for support during post-war elections in Sierra Leone. Taking its point of departure from the tension between ex- militias’ potential for deployment and displacement of violence, it illuminates the ambiguous ways in which ex-militia members engage with political big men. The article suggests that the notion of debt can be employed as a prism to explain the complexities of social rel…
Shadow Soldiering
Contemporary warfare depends on private security contractors from countries in the Global South. In Sierra Leone, this dependency has produced emerging markets for private military and security companies (PMSCs) seeking to recruit cheap, military-experienced labor. This article explores how demobilized militia and soldiers in Sierra Leone negotiate categorical divides to make themselves employable for private security contracting in Iraq. Based o…
Urban borderwork
This special issue introduces a conceptual framework for ethnographies of urban policing that foregrounds how defining features of the city produce police work, and in turn, how police work produces the city. To address how the mutually productive relationship of policing and the city shape current transformations in the ordering of urban space, the notions of borders and bordering are invoked. In contemporary cities across the global North and S…
Assembling UN Peacekeeping and Counterterrorism in Ghana
Through the case of Ghana, this article proposes a link between international peacekeeping deployments and national processes of stabilisation. Based on fieldwork among soldiers and police officers, it explores how peacekeeping experiences are transferred and translated into security provision at home within the field of counterterrorism. Introducing the notion of the ‘peacekeeping-counterterrorism assemblage’ as an analytical lens for unpacking …
Assessing threatening uncertainties
The preemptive turn in counterterrorism has turned future uncertainties into key objects of contemporary security governance. From an empirically grounded perspective, this article contributes with novel insight into the everyday practices of preemptive politics. Focusing on Ghana as a unique case through which to trace how the mobilization of affect accelerates the transnational proliferation of counterterrorism measures and the commodification …
Trembling city
While divided cities are characterized by spatially cemented segregation and polarized divisions, the trembling city is organized around transient and transformative borders. We conceptualize this notion of urban space to capture Freetown’s war-peace transition in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Ex-combatants settled on the city margins, bringing with them spatial strategies from war-fighting into the city by recreating a system of bases. The Sie…
Sociology (9 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Political science (7 obras) · Gender, Security, and Conflict (6 obras) · Political economy (6 obras) · Sierra leone (6 obras) · Peacebuilding and International Security (4 obras) · Politics (4 obras) · Ethnology (3 obras) · Geography (3 obras)