creators_name: Henriet, Benoit
editors_name: Blanchard, Emmanuel
editors_name: Bloemberger, Marieke
editors_name: Lauro, Amandine
type: book_section
datestamp: 2017-10-17 13:24:03
lastmod: 2017-10-27 08:23:21
metadata_visibility: show
title: Ordering the Wetlands. Policing and Legitimate Violence in the Leverville Concession (Belgian Congo, 1911-1920)
ispublished: pub
subjects: 8
subjects: 8_1_3
full_text_status: none
abstract: In 1919, Max Weber defined the State as an entity successfully claiming for itself the monopoly of legitimate violence within a given territory – an idea that was, however, already being thoroughly challenged in colonial settings at the time. Colonies and protectorates formed an uneven patchwork of ad hoc sovereignties that metropolitan States, local authorities, and private actors were actively sharing and negotiating. In this context, chartered companies and concessions were instrumental for the enforcement of imperial authority. Economic valuation and territorial occupation often went hand in hand overseas, where sovereign prerogatives – conceivably including policing or military rights – were frequently shared with or devolved to business ventures by metropolitan governments.1

date: 2017
date_type: published
series: Outre-Mers
volume: 6
publisher: P.I.E. Peter Lang
place_of_pub: Brusselles
pagerange: 41-62
pages: 253
refereed: TRUE
book_title: Policing Colonial Empires. Cases, Connections, Boundaries (ca. 1850–1970)
citation:   Henriet, Benoit  (2017) Ordering the Wetlands. Policing and Legitimate Violence in the Leverville Concession (Belgian Congo, 1911-1920).   In: Blanchard, Emmanuel and Bloemberger, Marieke and Lauro, Amandine, (eds.) Policing Colonial Empires. Cases, Connections, Boundaries (ca. 1850–1970).   Outre-Mers, 6 .  P.I.E. Peter Lang, Brusselles, pp. 41-62.