Suspect Cities and the (Re)Making of Colonial Order

Urbanization, Security Anxieties and Police Reforms in Postwar Congo (1945–1960)

Bibliographic Data

ID20063783
AuthorsAmandine Lauro (0000-0002-9925-892X, corresponding author)
Year2016
Pages57-85
Publication date2016-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenuePolicing New Risks in Modern European History (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/9781137544025_4
OpenAlexW604943456
ISBN9781137544025
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited33

Between the end of the Second World War and the decolonization process, Congolese cities grew spectacularly, leading in some cases—such as in the capital Kinshasa—to a fourfold increase in African urban residents. These radical transformations of the colonial landscape (both spatial and social) raised new security challenges for Belgian authorities. Indeed, as their development coincided with dramatic social changes and with the rise of anticolonial disorders, urban spaces generated specific anxieties over the dangers of unruly ‘detribalized’ Africans (and their proximity to white populations), and over the weaknesses of colonial control and police institutions

Archaeology · Capital (architecture) · Colonialism · Decolonization · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Order (exchange) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Urbanization · White (mutation) · African history and culture studies · Cultural Identity and Heritage · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · Law

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