CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2015
| Author | Mireanu, Manuel |
|---|---|
| Title | Vigilantism and Security: State, Violence and Politics in Italy and Hungary |
| Summary | This thesis explores the relationship between the state and vigilante groups in two situations from Italy and Hungary. It asks the question of the possibility of successful security articulations that emerge from actors endowed with lower levels of social capital. Vigilantism is one such possible security practice. The practices of the vigilante groups that I look at cannot be fully captured if we focus on either state-centred security, or on socially dispersed security practices. Their practices are performed by agents with lower levels of securitising capital than state elites, but with sufficient legitimacy and capabilities to enact security successfully. These practices are not dispersed through ‘society’, but they are concentrated in groups and patrols with explicit programs, hierarchies and purposes. I argue that vigilante groups can practice security autonomously from the state – even if they have the state’s ‘blessing’. |
| Supervisor | Kurowska, Xymena |
| Department | International Relations PhD |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2015/mireanu_manuel.pdf |
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