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Table of Contents 1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................ 8 1.1.1 The puzzle ................................................................................................................................... 9 1.1.2 The argument ............................................................................................................................. 10 1.2 Security Sector Reform as state-building ..................................................................................... 12 1.3 ‘The problem of the state’, the cold war and the war on terror ................................................. 14 1.3.1 The neo-liberal concern with the wrong kind of government ................................................... 14 1.3.2 The globalization of western universalisms? ............................................................................ 16 1.4 The technical failure of the state .................................................................................................... 17 1.5 European state formation and the colonial legacy ....................................................................... 19 1.5.1 The classic tale of the western state .......................................................................................... 20 1.5.2 The logic of incompatibility and the hybridity of authority ...................................................... 21 1.6 Conclusion ....................................................................................................................................... 23 1.7 Outline of the thesis ........................................................................................................................ 24 2 Conceptualizing hybrid orders – beyond a state-centric approach .................................... 28 2.1 Introduction ..................................................................................................................................... 28 2.2 Languages of stateness + languages of public authority = hybrid order ................................... 30 2.2.1 Disaggregating the state ............................................................................................................ 30 2.2.2 Between the cracks .................................................................................................................... 33 2.2.3 Languages of authority .............................................................................................................. 35 2.2.4 The hybrid condition ................................................................................................................. 39 2.3 The productive tension between Latour’s assemblage and Bourdieu’s field ............................ 41 2.4 The justice and security field ......................................................................................................... 46 2.4.1 The structure that shapes the assemblage .................................................................................. 46 2.4.2 Capital: sources of authority ...................................................................................................... 48 2.5 Ritual enactments and projections of the assemblage ................................................................. 49 2.6 Conclusion ....................................................................................................................................... 51 3 To study security sector reform in Sierra Leone – reflections on methodology and methods ........................................................................................................................................ 54 3.1 Introduction ..................................................................................................................................... 54 3.2 Studying security and justice assemblages ................................................................................... 55 3.3 Location-work, situational analysis and multi-sited ethnography ............................................. 56 3.3.1 Location-work ........................................................................................................................... 56 3.3.2 Situational analysis .................................................................................................................... 58 3.3.3 Multi-sited ethnography ............................................................................................................ 59 3.4 Extended case studies ..................................................................................................................... 70 3.5 Accessing the field ........................................................................................................................... 72 3.5.1 Peyima ....................................................................................................................................... 72 3.5.2 Freetown and beyond ................................................................................................................ 74 3.6 Engaging and leaving the field ....................................................................................................... 75 3.7 Research assistance and languages in the field ............................................................................ 77 3.8 Collecting and producing the data ................................................................................................ 78 3.8.1 Text ............................................................................................................................................ 78 3.8.2 Participant Observation ............................................................................................................. 79 3.8.3 Qualitative in-depth interviews ................................................................................................. 80 2 3.9 The positioned researcher .............................................................................................................. 81 3.10