title: Suspect Cities and the (Re)Making of Colonial Order: Urbanization, Security Anxieties and Police Reforms in Postwar Congo (1945-1960)
creator: Lauro, Amandine
subject: 8. Belgium and colonial justice
subject: 3. Violences and maintenance of law and order
description: Between the end of the Second World War and the decolonization process, Congolese cities grew spectacularly, leading in some cases—such as in the capital Kinshasa—to a fourfold increase in African urban residents. These radical transformations of the colonial landscape (both spatial and social) raised new security challenges for Belgian authorities. Indeed, as their development coincided with dramatic social changes and with the rise of anticolonial disorders, urban spaces generated specific anxieties over the dangers of unruly ‘detribalized’ Africans (and their proximity to white populations), and over the weaknesses of colonial control and police institutions.
publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
contributor: Campion, Jonas
contributor: Rousseaux, Xavier
date: 2016
type: Book Section
type: PeerReviewed
identifier:   Lauro, Amandine  (2016) Suspect Cities and the (Re)Making of Colonial Order: Urbanization, Security Anxieties and Police Reforms in Postwar Congo (1945-1960).   In: Campion, Jonas and Rousseaux, Xavier, (eds.) Policing New Risks in Modern European History.   World Histories of Crime, Culture and Violence .  Palgrave MacMillan, Basingstoke, pp. 57-85.      
relation: http://www.just-his.be/eprints/7626/