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Tightly Packed: Disciplinary Power, the UNODC, and the Container Control Programme in Dakar

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2016

Adam Sandor
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Abstract:

This article uses the lens of disciplinary power to analyze the North–South relationships in efforts to govern drug trafficking in Senegal. Disciplinary surveillance shapes the activities of anti-trafficking units through repetitive examination, correction, and persuasion. These practices produce forms of resistance to the ways in which interdiction occurs, which implicate elites in the country. The result of constant international correction, and subsidiary actor resistance, is a frustrated law enforcement team. The argument deepens the literature on police reform in Africa, acknowledging the effects of international discipline on policing agents, while maintaining that immediate political settings heavily constrain disciplinary techniques and their internalizing effects.

Résumé:

Cet article se base sur le pouvoir disciplinaire pour analyser les relations Nord-Sud dans les efforts visant à gérer le trafic de drogue au Sénégal. La surveillance disciplinaire façonne les activités des groupes de lutte contre la traite à travers un contrôle répétitif, le châtiment et la persuasion. Ces pratiques produisent des formes de résistance à la manière dont l’interdiction se produit et mette en cause les élites du pays. Le résultat d’une constante condamnation internationale et la résistance à l’acteur subsidiaire forme une équipe de force de l’ordre contrarié. L’argument approfondit la littérature sur la réforme de la police en Afrique, en reconnaissant les effets de la discipline internationale sur les agents de police, tout en maintenant que les paramètres politiques immédiats contraints fortement les methodes disciplinaires et leurs effets internes.

Keywords

Surveillancedrug traffickingSenegalUNODCContainer Control Programmedisciplinary power
Type
ASR FORUM ON SURVEILLANCE IN AFRICA: POLITICS, HISTORIES, TECHNIQUES
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African Studies Review , Volume 59 , Issue 2 , September 2016 , pp. 133 - 160
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Copyright © African Studies Association 2016 

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