Tessa Diphoorn
Social Sciences - Cultural Anthropology
Utrecht University
Netherlands
Biography
Tessa Diphoorn is currently Assistant Professor at the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Utrecht University. In May 2017, she will start on a new NWO-funded (Veni) research project: 'Policing the Police in Kenya: Analysing state authority from within'. Previously she conducted extensive ethnographic research about private security in South Africa and her book, "Twilight Policing. Private Security and Violence in Urban South Africa", has been published with the University of California Press (2016). She also worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam, where she conducted research on public-private security assemblages in Kenya, Israel, and Jamaica. She has a Bachelor degree in cultural anthropology and a MA in Conflict Studies and Human Rights, both obtained at Utrecht University.
Research Interest
Cultures, Citizenship and Human Rights
Publications
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Diphoorn, T.G. (2015). Twilight Policing: Private Security Practices in South Africa. British Journal of Criminology (19 p.).
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Diphoorn, T.G. (2015). ‘“It’s all about the bodyâ€: the bodily capital of armed response officers in South Africa. Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness, 34 (4), (pp. 336) (352 p.).
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Diphoorn, T.G. (2016). Twilight Policing. Private Security and Violence in Urban South Africa. (304 p.). Berkeley: University of California Press.
