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Political Geographies of Piracy

Constructing Threats and Containing Bodies in Somalia

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  • © 2014

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  1. Brittany Gilmer
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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Brittany Gilmer
    Pages 1-12

  3. Setting the Stage: Studies, Geographies, and Approaches

    • Brittany Gilmer
    Pages 13-28

  4. State of Crisis: Rooting Piracy in Security and Development

    • Brittany Gilmer
    Pages 29-47

  5. Pirate Mania: Global Discourse, Unlikely Partnerships, and New Strategies

    • Brittany Gilmer
    Pages 49-67

  6. Behind Office Doors: Constructing Threats, Campaigns, and Identities

    • Brittany Gilmer
    Pages 69-90

  7. On the Ground in Somalia: Gender, Security, and Social Reproduction

    • Brittany Gilmer
    Pages 91-109

  8. At Sea and Inside Prisons: Marked Bodies, Mobilities, and Resistance

    • Brittany Gilmer
    Pages 111-137

  9. Pirate Pie: Political Economy, Piratization, and Institutional Survival

    • Brittany Gilmer
    Pages 139-156

  10. Beyond Intervention: Preventing Actions, Containing Bodies, and Making Profits

    • Brittany Gilmer
    Pages 157-167

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 169-196
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This book examines the increasing role of development organizations in securitization processes and argues that the new security-development counter piracy framework is (re)shaping political geographies of piracy by promoting disciplinary strategies aimed at the prevention and containment of gendered and racialized actions and bodies in Somalia.

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"Brittany Gilmer offers readers a fascinating, front row seat to the institutional response to piracy. Her ethnography is a detailed and innovative examination of how piracy has become securitized. Understood through Gilmer's critical lens, the front line workers of development themselves become the lucrative subjects of securitization as they compete for funding and become 'piratized' in the process." - Alison Mountz, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada

About the author

Brittany Gilmer is Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Geography at Old Dominion University, USA. Her expertise includes geographies of security, development, and transnational crime in East Africa. She is a former consultant with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Counter Piracy Programme headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya.

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