CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2010
| Author | Gluck, Zoltan Kendrick |
|---|---|
| Title | Piracy and State Structure off the Horn of Africa |
| Summary | This paper offers a critique of the ideological framework within which counter-piracy efforts off the Horn of Africa are constructed. In a first instance the critique of state failure, as the dominant paradigm within which Somali piracy is apprehended by political discourse, reveals the processes of state structural transformation behind the dehistoricized category. What comes into focus then are the historical and contemporary processes of state rescaling at work on the Horn of Africa. Counter-piracy, in turn, is analyzed as one such a process of rescaling in which military, security and juridical apparatuses of the state are reconvened from nation to supernational scales. The role of the Somali Transitional Federal Government within counter-piracy is then analyzed through the expanded concept of state structure. In a second instance the conditions within which the juridical category of piracy is (re-)produced are analyzed at the particular site of the piracy trials at the Mombasa Law Courts. In this section I draw upon both fieldwork conducted at the courts and historical exposition of the political and economic context within which modern piracy law emerged. As such the intimate relationship between the moral and political economies of piracy are brought into relief. |
| Supervisor | Kalb, Don; Rajaram, Prem Kumar |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2010/gluck_zoltan.pdf |
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