Table of Contents

Contents Preface -- Introduction: Anthropological Perspectives on Vigilantism -- Urban Fear and the Moral Order of the Lynch Mob -- Vigilantes and the Politics of Violence in Kenya -- Vigilantism, Corporal Punishment and Order in the Port Elizabeth Townships -- The Practice of Nigerian Vigilantism -- The Production of Sexualities in Hindu Nationalism -- Women Vigilantes and Raw Justice in the Bombay Slums -- Policing Nkomazi, South Africa -- The Maoist Communist Centre and the State in Jharkhand, India -- Gangs, Violence, and Social Order in Urban Nicaragua -- Formal Outsourcing of Vigilance and Policing to Non-state Authorities: the Case of Traditional Leaders in Post-War Mozambique -- Fear, Vigilantism, and the Politics of Islam in Northern Nigeria -- Honour, Retribution and Reparative Justice among West Bank Palestinians -- Lynching and Post-War Community Conflict & Modernity in Guatemala -- The Spectacle of Surveillance on the U.S.-Mexico Border -- Territory, Violence and Vigilantism in the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1978) -- Private Security and Public Insecurity: How Russians Look to Alternative Sources of Protection and Enforcement -- Variations of Vigilantism in the Spanish-Basque context -- Informal Justice and the Control of Public Order in Northern Ireland -- Continuing Vigilantism in Urban Northern Ireland

About the Author

David Pratten is Lecturer in the Social Anthroplogy of Africa at St Antony's College, Oxford; Atreyee Sen is Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Sussex.