private indirect government

is the sovereignty of large areas and numbers by private security, police forces, vigilante groups, economic networks, multinationals, religious organizations, or rebel armies.

Mbembe calls 'private indirect government' often including private security and police forces (Mbembe 2000, 2001, 66-101). (Blom Hansen). These sovereignties are claimed and exercised by rebel armies, ethnic communities promoting powerful notions of autochthony, transnational Christian and Muslim organizations, vigilante groups, and economic networks, multinationals, and mining concessions governing large areas and numbers of people by what Mbembe calls 'private indirect government' often including private security and police forces (Mbembe 2000, 2001, 66-101). (Blom Hansen)

private indirect government, n.Definitions

private indirect government