Books: 

2024. Nairobi Becoming. Security, Uncertainty and Contingency. Punctum Books. (curated with Joost Fontein, Peter Lockwood and Constance Smith). 

2019. Security Blurs: The Politics of Plural Security Provision. London: Routledge (edited with Erella Grassiani). 

2016. Twilight Policing. Private Security and Violence in Urban South Africa. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Edited Journal Special Issues:

2024. The Everyday Political Economy of Private Security, Policing and Society, with Adam White.

2023. Travelling Concepts in the ClassroomL Experiences with Interdisciplinary Education, Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education, with Martyn Huysmans, Susanne Knittel, Brianne McGonigle Leyh and Merel van Goch.

2021. Transformative Police Reform, Policing, with Brianne McGonigle Leyh and Luuk Slooter. 

2020. Sex, Etnofoor, with Erella Grassiani. 

2019. Friendship, Etnofoor, with Eva van Roekel. 

2017. Ethnographies of Private Security, Conflict and Society, with Erella Grassiani. 

2016. The City, Etnofoor, with Luuk Slooter. 

2015. Security, Etnofoor, with Erella Grassiani. 

Journal articles

2024. The everyday political economy of private security. Policing and Society, 34(1-2): 1-9. (with Adam White). 

2024. Publics of policing: expanding approaches to nodal policing. Policing and Society, 34(1-2): 87-103 (with SJ Cooper-Knock and Julie Berg).

2023. Travelling Concepts in the Classroom: Experiences in Interdisciplinary Education. Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education, 12(SE 2023): 1-14 (with Martyn Huysmans, Susanne Knittel, Brianne McGonigle Leyh and Merel van Goch).

2023. Travelling in the Classroom: Podcasting as an Active-Learning Tool for Interdisciplinarity. Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education, 12(1): 29-49 (with Brianne McGonigle Leyh).

2023. ‘I can do things that others can’t’: Civic policing as weaponized volunteering in eThekwini, South Africa. Current Sociology, 71(2): 253-274 (with SJ Cooper-Knock).

2022. Corporate sovereignty: Negotiating permissive power for profit in Southern Africa. Anthropological Theory, 22(4): 422–442 (with Nikkie Wiegink). 

2021. Transforming Police Reform: Global Experiences through a Multidisciplinary Lens. Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, 15(1): 340–347 (with Brianne McGonigle Leyh and Luuk Slooter). 

2021. What Is Community Policing?: Divergent Agendas, Practices, and Experiences of Transforming the Police in Kenya. Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, 15(1): 399-411 (with Naomi van Stapele). 

2020. The ‘pure apples’: Moral bordering within the Kenyan police. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 38(3): 490-509. 

2020. ‘Arms for mobility’: policing partnerships and material exchanges in Nairobi, Kenya. Policing and Society, 30(2): 136-152 

2020. 'Why do we need your research?': The Ethics of Studying Security and the Dilemmas of the Anthropologist-Expert. Journal of Extreme Anthropology, 4(1), 116-134 (with Erella Grassiani). 

2019. Old Boys and Badmen: Private Security in (Post)Colonial Jamaica. Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 21(7): 909-927 (with Rivke Jaffe). 

2017. "Eyes, Ears, and Wheels": Policing Partnerships in Nairobi, Kenya. Conflict and Society: Advances in Research, 3(1): 8-23 (with Francesco Colona). 

2017. Introduction: Ethnographies of Private Security. Conflict and Society: Advances in Research, 3(1): 1-7 (with Erella Grassiani). 

2017. The ‘Bravo Mike Syndrome’: Private Security Culture and Racial Profiling in South Africa. Policing and Society, 27(5): 525-540. 

2016. Securitizing capital: A processual-relational approach to pluralized security. Theoretical Criminology, 20(4): 430-445 (with Erella Grassiani). 

2016. 'Surveillance of the Surveillers': Regulation of the Private Security Industry in South Africa and Kenya. African Studies Review, 59(2): 161-182. 

2016. Entanglements of private security and community policing in South Africa and Swaziland. African Affairs, 115(461): 710–732 (with Helene Maria Kyed). 

2016. Twilight Policing: Private Security Practices in South Africa. British Journal of Criminology. The British Journal of Criminology 56(2): 313-331. 

2015. ‘“It’s all about the body”: the bodily capital of armed response officers in South Africa. Medical Anthropology, 34(4): 336-352.

2014. Typologies of Partnering Policing: Case studies from urban South Africa. Policing and Society, 24(4): 425-442 (with Julie Berg). 

2013. The Emotionality of Participation: Various Modes of Participation in Ethnographic Fieldwork on Private Policing in Durban, South Africa. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 42(2): 201-225.

Book chapters

Accepted/in press. Travelling Concepts. In Elgar Encyclopedia of Inter- and Transdisciplinarity, edited by Frederic Darbellay. Edward Elgar Publishing (with Susanne Knittel and Brianne McGonigle Leyh). 

2023. Access denied: Navigating access during ethnographic fieldwork on police reform in Kenya. In Routledge International Handbook of Police Ethnography, edited by Jenny Fleming and Sarah Charman. Routledge. 

2021. Emic Security: An Anthropological Approach to Security. In  The Political Anthropology of Internationalized Politics, edited by Sarah Biecker and Klaus Schlichte. 

2019. Researching security in Africa as the "Sierra Foxtrot Golf". In Ethnography as risky business: field research in violent and sensitive contexts, edited by Kees Koonings, Dirk Kruijt, and Dennis Rodgers. Lexington Books.

2019. ‘Ready to Shoot’ vs ‘Ready to Loot!’ The Violent Potentialities of Demonstrations in Kenya. In Policing Protests in Kenya, edited by Mutuma Ruteere and Brian Kimari (with Naomi van Stapele). 

2019. Introducing Security Blurs. In Security Blurs: the politics of plural security provision, edited by Tessa Diphoorn and Erella Grassiani (with Erella Grassiani).

2019. Policing for the Community? The Mismatch between Reform and Everyday Policing in Nairobi, Kenya. In Policing the Urban Periphery in Africa: Developing safety for the marginal, edited by Simon Howell (with Naomi van Stapele and Wangui Kimari). 

2017. Who do you Call? Private Security Policing in Durban, South Africa. In Private Security in Africa: From the Global Assemblage to the Everyday, edited by Paul Higate and Mats Utas. 

2017. An Ethnographic Approach to Non-State Security: Participation Observation among Private Security Officers. In Researching Non-state Actors in International Security, edited by Andreas Kruck and Andrea Schneiker. 

2016. Moonlighting: Crossing the public-private policing divide in Durban, South Africa. In Police in Africa: The Street Level View, edited by Jan Beek, Mirco Göpfert, Olive Owen, and Jonny Steinberg. 

2014. Private Security Governance in South Africa. In Urban Governance in Post-apartheid Cities: Modes of Engagement in South Africa’s Metropoles, edited by C. Haferburg, & M. Huchzermeyer.