%S World Histories of Crime, Culture and Violence
%A Amandine Lauro
%T Suspect Cities and the (Re)Making of Colonial Order: Urbanization, Security Anxieties and Police Reforms in Postwar Congo (1945-1960)
%X 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.
%P 57-85
%B Policing New Risks in Modern European History
%E Jonas Campion
%E Xavier Rousseaux
%C Basingstoke
%D 2016
%I Palgrave MacMillan
%R 10.1057/9781137544025.0009
%L justhis7626