Publications
2026
Scholarly publications
Diphoorn, T. (2026).
Afterword: Weapons at the Threshold. In L. van Liere, & E. Meinema (Eds.),
The Meaning of Weapons : Material and Discursive Negotiations in Culture and Religion (pp. 250-257). Routledge.
[DOI] Diphoorn, T. (2026).
"They Speak Our Language!”: A Kinship Anthropology of Policing and Oversight in Kenya.
PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review,
49(1), Article e70039.
[DOI] [Repository] 2025
Scholarly publications
2024
Scholarly publications
Diphoorn, T. (2024).
Dirty Versus Clean Data: The Politics of Data-Driven Policing in South Africa. In T. Ostbo Kuldova, H. Oppen Ingebrigtsen Gundhus, & C. Thea Wathne (Eds.),
Policing and Intelligence in the Global Big Data Era, Volume II (pp. 49-76). Palgrave Macmillan.
[DOI] [Repository] Diphoorn, T. (2024).
“The server is always down!” Digitalised complaints systems to monitor public service (mis)conduct in Kenya. In M. Avis, D. Marciniak, & M. Sapignoli (Eds.),
States of Surveillance : Ethnographies of New Technologies in Policing and Justice (pp. 61-81). Routledge.
[DOI] [Repository] Oosterbaan, M., & Diphoorn, T. (2024).
From religious police to religious policing.
Culture and Religion,
23(3), 225-239.
[DOI] [Repository] Diphoorn, T., Knittel, S., & Mc Gonigle, B. (2024).
Travelling Concepts. In F. Darbellay (Ed.),
Elgar Encyclopedia of Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity (pp. 599-602). Edward Elgar Publishing.
[DOI] [Repository] Cooper-Knock, SJ., Berg, J.
, & Diphoorn, T. (2024).
Publics of policing: expanding approaches to nodal policing.
Policing and Society,
34(1-2), 87-103.
[DOI] [Repository]White, A.
, & Diphoorn, T. (2024).
The everyday political economy of private security.
Policing and Society,
34(1-2), 1-9.
[DOI] [Repository]Fontein, J.
, Diphoorn, T., Lockwood, P., & Smith, C. (2024).
Nairobi Becoming. Security, Uncertainty and Contingency. Punctum Press.
[DOI] [Repository]2023
Scholarly publications
Diphoorn, T., Huysmans, M., Knittel, S., Mc Gonigle, B., & van Goch, M. (2023).
Traveling Concepts in the Classroom: Experiences in Interdisciplinary Education.
Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education ,
12(SE 2023), 1-14.
https://www.ojed.org/index.php/jise/article/view/4844 [Repository] Mc Gonigle, B., & Diphoorn, T. (2023).
Travelling in the Classroom: Podcasting as an Active-Learning Tool for Interdisciplinarity.
Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education ,
12(1), 29-49.
https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1394638 [Repository] Diphoorn, T. (2023).
Access denied: Navigating access during ethnographic fieldwork on police reform in Kenya. In J. Fleming, & S. Charman (Eds.),
Routledge International Handbook of Police Ethnography (1 ed., pp. 266-281). Routledge.
[DOI] [Repository] Diphoorn, T., & Cooper-Knock, SJ. (2023).
‘I can do things that others can’t’: Civic policing as weaponized volunteering in eThekwini, South Africa.
Current Sociology,
71(2), 253-274.
[DOI] [Repository] 2022
Scholarly publications
Diphoorn, T., & Wiegink, N. (2022).
Corporate sovereignty: Negotiating permissive power for profit in Southern Africa.
Anthropological Theory,
22(4), 422–442.
[DOI] [Repository] Diphoorn, T., McGonigle Leyh, B.
, & Slooter, L. (2021).
Transforming Police Reform: Global Experiences through a Multidisciplinary Lens.
Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice,
15(1), 340–347.
[DOI] [Repository] Diphoorn, T. (2021). Emic Security: An Anthropological Approach to Security. In S. Biecker, & K. Schlichte (Eds.), The Political Anthropology of Internationalized Politics (pp. 97- 114). Rowman & Littlefield.
Diphoorn, T. G., & van Stapele, N. (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.
[DOI] [Repository] 2020
Scholarly publications
Diphoorn, T. G. (2020).
Reviews: Contradictions of Democracy: vigilantism and rights in post-apartheid South Africa: by Nicholas Rush Smith New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. 265. $99 (hbk), $29.95 (pbk). Journal of Modern African Studies,
58(2), 304-305.
[DOI] [Repository] Diphoorn, T. G. (2020).
The ‘pure apples’: Moral bordering within the Kenyan police.
Environment and Planning D: Society and Space,
38(3), 490-509.
[DOI] [Repository] Diphoorn, T. G., & Grassiani, E. (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.
[DOI] [Repository] Diphoorn, T. G. (2020).
‘Arms for mobility’: policing partnerships and material exchanges in Nairobi, Kenya.
Policing and Society,
30(2), 136-152.
[DOI] [Repository] 2019
Scholarly publications
Diphoorn, T. G. (2019). Researching security in Africa as the "Sierra Foxtrot Golf". In K. Koonings, D. Kruijt, & D. Rodgers (Eds.), Ethnography as risky business: field research in violent and sensitive contexts (pp. 45-54). Lexington Books.
van Stapele, N.
, & Diphoorn, T. G. (2019).
‘Ready to Shoot’ vs ‘Ready to Loot!’ The Violent Potentialities of Demonstrations in Kenya. In M. Ruteere, & P. Mutahi (Eds.),
Policing Protests in Kenya (pp. 22-43).
[Repository]Grassiani, E., & Diphoorn, T. G. (2019). Introducing security blurs. In T. Diphoorn, & E. Grassiani (Eds.), Security blurs: the politics of plural security provision (pp. 1-15). (Routledge studies in anthropology; Vol. 51). Routledge.
Diphoorn, T. G. (2019).
Karpiak, Kevin G. and William Garriott, eds. 2018. The Anthropology of Police. London & New York: Routledge. Book review. Journal of Extreme Anthropology.
[DOI] [Repository] Jaffe, R.
, & Diphoorn, T. G. (2019).
Old Boys and Badmen: Private Security in (Post)Colonial Jamaica.
Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies,
21(7), 909-927.
[DOI] [Repository]Diphoorn, T. G., & Grassiani, E. (Eds.) (2019). Security Blurs: The Politics of Plural Security Provision. (Routledge Studies in Anthropology). Routledge.
Diphoorn, T. G., van Stapele, N., & Kimari, W. (2019).
Policing for the Community? The Mismatch between Reform and Everyday Policing in Nairobi, Kenya. In S. Howell (Ed.),
Policing the Urban Periphery in Africa: Developing safety for the marginal (pp. 24-40). APCOF.
[Repository] Professional publications
Diphoorn, T. G., & Colona, F. (2019). The close relationship between police and private security in Kenya. Web publication/site, The Conversation.
Diphoorn, T. G. (2019). Why decades of Kenya police reforms have not yielded change. Web publication/site, The Conversation.
2018
Scholarly publications
Diphoorn, T. G., & Wiegink, N. (2018). Corporate Sovereignty: Permissible Authority Claiming and Making in Southern Africa. Paper presented at Vienna Anthropology Days, Vienna, Austria.
Diphoorn, T. G. (2018). The Intrastate Intervention: analysing the state from within. Paper presented at European Association of Social Anthropology.
Diphoorn, T. G. (2018). Policing Reforms in South Africa.
2017
Scholarly publications
Diphoorn, T. G. (2017). Police Oversight and Reform in Kenya. Paper presented at Transitional Justice, Social Justice, and Human Rights, Utrecht, Netherlands.
Colona, F.
, & Diphoorn, T. G. (2017).
"Eyes, Ears, and Wheels": Policing Partnerships in Nairobi, Kenya.
Conflict and Society: Advances in Research,
3(1), 8-23.
[DOI] [Repository]Grassiani, E.
, & Diphoorn, T. G. (2017).
Introduction: Ethnographies of Private Security.
Conflict and Society: Advances in Research,
3(1), 1-7.
[DOI] [Repository]Grassiani, E., & Diphoorn, T. G. (2017). Private Security: Ethnographies of Private Security. Conflict and Society: Advances in Research, 3(1).
Diphoorn, T. G. (2017).
Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff. The Truth About Crime: Sovereignty, Knowledge, Social Order. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. xix + 223 pp. Acknowledgments. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Paper. ISBN: 978-0-226-42491-0. African Studies Review,
60(2), 233-234.
[DOI] [Repository] Diphoorn, T. G. (2017). Who do you Call? Private Security Policing in Durban, South Africa. In P. Higate, & M. Utas (Eds.), Private Security in Africa: From the Global Assemblage to the Everyday Zed Books.
Diphoorn, T. G. (2017). An Ethnographic Approach to Non-State Security: Participation Observation among Private Security Officers. In A. Kruck, & A. Schneiker (Eds.), Researching Non-state Actors in International Security Routledge.
Diphoorn, T. G. (2017).
The ‘Bravo Mike Syndrome’: Private Security Culture and Racial Profiling in South Africa.
Policing and Society,
27(5), 525-540.
[DOI] [Repository] 2016
Scholarly publications
Slooter, L. A., & Diphoorn, T. G. (2016). Introduction: The Contested Making of the City. Etnofoor, 28(2), 7-11.
Diphoorn, T. G., & Grassiani, E. (2016).
Securitizing capital: A processual-relational approach to pluralized security.
Theoretical Criminology,
20(4), 430-445.
[DOI] [Repository] Diphoorn, T. G. (2016).
“Surveillance of the Surveillers”: Regulation of the Private Security Industry in South Africa and Kenya.
African Studies Review,
59(2), 161-182.
[DOI] [Repository] Diphoorn, T. G., & Kyed, H. M. (2016).
Entanglements of private security and community policing in South Africa and Swaziland.
African Affairs,
115(461), 710-732.
[DOI] [Repository] Diphoorn, T. G. (2016). Moonlighting: Crossing the public-private policing divide in Durban, South Africa. In J. Beek, M. Göpfert, O. Owen, & J. Steinberg (Eds.), Police in Africa: The Street Level View Hurst Publishers.
Diphoorn, T. G. (2016). Twilight Policing. Private Security and Violence in Urban South Africa. University of California Press.
2015
Scholarly publications
Diphoorn, T. G., & Grassiani, E. (2015). Introduction: Security. Etnofoor, 27(2), 7-13.
Diphoorn, T. G. (2015).
‘“It’s all about the body”: the bodily capital of armed response officers in South Africa.
Medical Anthropology,
34(4), 336.
[DOI] [Repository] Diphoorn, T. G. (2015).
Twilight Policing: Private Security Practices in South Africa.
British Journal of Criminology,
56(2), 313-331.
[DOI] Professional publications
Jeursen, T., & Diphoorn, T. G. (2015). Tussen het “hier” en “daar”: het leven van de onderzoeker. #kijkSW, 11, 14-16.
2014
Scholarly publications
Diphoorn, T. G. (2014). Private Security Governance in South Africa. In C. Haferburg, & M. Huchzermeyer (Eds.), Urban Governance in Post-apartheid Cities: Modes of Engagement in South Africa’s Metropoles (pp. 197). Borntraeger.
Diphoorn, T. G., & Berg, J. (2014). Typologies of Partnering Policing: Case studies from urban South Africa. Policing and Society, 24(4), 425.
2013
Scholarly publications
Diphoorn, T. G. (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.
Diphoorn, T. G. (2013).
Twilight Policing. Private Security in Durban, South Africa. [Doctoral thesis 1 (Research UU / Graduation UU), Utrecht University]. Utrecht University.
[Repository] 2010
Scholarly publications
Diphoorn, T. G. (2010). The 'black belt' of Khartoum: Multi-displaced Southerners in Sudan's capital. In M. Klem (Ed.), Who belongs to the city/to whom belongs the city (pp. 103). Research for Development/VNG International.
2009
Professional publications
Diphoorn, T. G. (2009). Security in the Twilight? Private Security Companies in Durban, South Africa. In R. C. Hudson, B. Wolfgang, F. Ferrandiz, & K. Villanueva (Eds.), Peace, Confict and Identity. Multidisciplinary Approaches Humanitarian Net.
2008
Professional publications
Denissen, I. N. M., Diphoorn, T. G., Huesken, J., Koch, D. J., Leenstra, M., Wiegink, N., & Delgado Pitti, I. A. (2008). Oplossingen voor armoede. Goed bestuur: pak corruptie aan. Onze wereld, 50(11), 54-58.
Diphoorn, T. G., & Wiegink, N. (2008). Meer aandacht voor de fragiele stad. In Heilige Huisjes: Anders kijken naar Internationale Samenwerking: Anders kijken naar Internationale Samenwerking (pp. 30). Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken.