Transnational Companies and Security Governance - 9781138809031

Name: Transnational Companies and Security Governance - 9781138809031
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Transnational Companies and Security GovernanceHybrid Practices in a Postcolonial World\nAuthor(s): Jana Hnke\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138809031, 978-1138809031\nSynopsis\nThis book investigates governance practiced by non-state actors. It analyses how multinational mining companies protect their sites in fragile contexts and what that tells us about political ordering 'beyond' the state. \n\nBased on extensive primary research in the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Africa, Europe and North America, the book compares companies' political role in the 19th and 21st centuries. It demonstrates that despite a number of disturbing parallels, many contemporary practices are not a reversion to the past but unique to the present. The book discloses hybrid security practices with highly ambiguous effects around the sites of contemporary companies that have committed to norms of corporate social and security re.