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:

2025. Sensing (In)Security. New materialism and The Politics of Security. Focaalblog, with Tomas Salem

2024. From religious police to religious policing. Culture and Religionwith Martijn Oosterbaan

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

2026. “They Speak Our Language!”: A Kinship Anthropology of Policing and Oversight in Kenya. Political and Legal Anthropology Review, online first. 

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

2024. Dirty Versus Clean Data: The Politics of Data-Driven Policing in South Africa. In: Kuldova, T.Ø., Gundhus, H.O.I., Wathne, C.T. (eds) Policing and Intelligence in the Global Big Data Era, Volume II. Palgrave's Critical Policing Studies. Palgrave Macmillan.

2024. “The server is always down!” Digitalised complaints systems to monitor public service (mis)conduct in Kenya. In States of Surveillance. Ethnographies of New Technologies in Policing and Justice, edited by Maya Avis, Daniel Marciniak, and Maria Sapignoli, pp. 61-81. London: Routledge. 

2024. Travelling Concepts. In Elgar Encyclopedia of Inter- and Transdisciplinarityedited 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, pp. 24-40. Cape Town; APCOF. (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. London: Zed Books. 

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. London: Routledge. 

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. London; Hurst. 

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. 

Public engagement

2024. Niemand luisterde naar de Kenianen in de getto's. NRC , July 1 2024, Opinie, 18-19, with Naomi van Stapele. 

2024. Violence is the language of the Kenyan state: five strategies it uses to control citizens. The Conversation, June 30 2024, with Naomi van Stapele.

2024. Bullshit Security. The Dutch Review of Books, with Erella Grassiani, Winifred Poster, and Edward Schwarzschild. 

2022. Interviewed by April Zhu, SAPIENS, ‘What Kenya’s Killer Cops Reveal about Police Culture, https://www.sapiens.org/culture/kenya-killer-cops/. 

2021. Guilty verdicts do not transform oppressive policing structures. Human Rights Here, the Netherlands Network for Human Rights Research, NNHHR, with Brianne McGonigle Leyh & Luuk Slooter.

2021. Invited lecture, ‘The Price of Security’. Organised by Studium Generale, lecture series 9/11: Twenty Years Later’, October 6.

2019. Why decades of Kenya police reforms have not yielded change. The Conversation, November 25.

2017. Invited as expert for training Dutch police officers on security and cultural diversity in Kenya for Clingendeal Institute.

2017. Interviewed for DUB magazine with Prof. dr. Wil G. Pansters, “Gedeeld idealism bindt jonge hond en oude rot die veldwerk doen in gevaarlijke landen”, November 24.

2014. Interviewed by Harriet Alexander of The Telegraph, September 11 (online newspaper).

2014. Interviewed by Gitte Postel for Maandblad Zuid-Afrika, February 2014 (magazine).

2019. The close relationship between police and private security in Kenya. The Conversation, May 22, with Francesco Colona. 

2017. Who is keeping us safe? The uncertainty of public-private policing partnerships.In the Long Run, University of Cambridge

2015. The State Observing the State. Allegra Laboratory Online, with Tom Kagwe. 

2015. Find a Cop When He’s Alone. Blog on Security Assemblages project website.

2015. Tussen het “hier” en “daar”: het leven van de onderzoeker. #kijkSW, 11, 14-16, with Thijs Jeursen. 

2013. Mandela is dood. Nu begint het pas echt. One World. Online: December 15.

2013. Per ongeluk demonstrant in Istanbul. One World. Online: June 24.

2008. ‘Oplossingen voor armoede. Goed bestuur: pak corruptie aan.’ Onze Wereld, 50(11): 54-58, with Ingeborg Denissen, Jan Huesken, Melle Leenstra, Dirk Jan Koch, Nikkie Wiegink & Ivan A. Delgado Pitti. 

2008. Meer aandacht voor de fragiele stad. In: IS-Academie en ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken, 'Heilige Huisjes: Anders kijken naar Internationale Samenwerking,' pp.30-38. Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken: Den Haag, with Nikkie Wiegink. 

Podcasts

2024. Podcast What is the future of policing? Platform Longtermism and Institutional Change. 

2024. Podcast Security Labour, NIAS Podcast Room to Explore, with Erella Grassiani, Winifred Poster, and Edward Schwarzschild. 

2021. Podcast Het Nachtkastje van…. Podcast Studium Generale. 

2020. ‘Policing in the Developing World’, organized by International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), Sounds Strategic, September 2020:

https://www.iiss.org/blogs/podcast/2020/09/policing-in-the-developing-world. 

2020. The African Police in a Pandemic: Attitudes and Reforms beyond Covid-19’, organised by African Liberty, August 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFWwJ93Me1w

 

Publications

2026

Scholarly publications

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] [Portal]

2025

Scholarly publications

Diphoorn, T., & Salem, T. (2025). Introduction: Sensing (In)Security. New Materialism and The Politics of Security. Focaalblog.com. https://www.focaalblog.com/2025/12/22/tessa-diphoorn-and-tomas-salem-introduction-sensing-insecurity-new-materialism-and-the-politics-of-security/

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] [Portal]
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] [Portal]
Oosterbaan, M., & Diphoorn, T. (2024). From religious police to religious policing. Culture and Religion, 23(3), 225-239. [DOI] [Portal]
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] [Portal]
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]

Professional publications

Diphoorn, T., Mc Gonigle, B., & van der Tuin, I. (2023). Pressure Cooker: Travelling Concepts. Web publication/site, Edusources: Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning. https://search.edusources.nl/materialen/82fea107-daad-4ff2-91b8-01578ddf4288

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]

2021

Scholarly publications

Diphoorn, T., McGonigle Leyh, B., & Slooter, L. (2021). Guilty Verdicts do not Transform Oppressive Policing Structures. Web publication/site http://Guilty Verdicts do not Transform Oppressive Policing Structures
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]

Professional publications

Fraser, J., Mc Gonigle, B., Diphoorn, T., & Kalis, A. (2021). Travelling Concepts on Air: Agency. Digital or Visual Products https://www.uu.nl/en/news/new-episode-out-podcast-travelling-concepts-on-air-agency

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., & van Stapele, N. (2018). What is Community Policing?: Divergent Agendas and Experiences in Kenya. Paper presented at Guarantees of Non-Recurrence: Transformative Police Reform, Utrecht, Netherlands.
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). Emotions within the State: Intrastate interactions in Kenya. Paper presented at European Conference on African Studies.
Diphoorn, T. G. (2017). Who is keeping us safe? The uncertainty of public-private policing partnerships. Web publication/site, . http://www.inthelongrun.org/articles/article/who-is-keeping-us-safe-the-uncertainty-of-public-private-policing-partnersh/
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

Diphoorn, T. G. (2016). The Quest for 'More Security' and the Dilemmas of the Anthropologist-Expert. Paper presented at International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES), Dubrovnik, Croatia.
Erella Grassiani, & Diphoorn, T. G. (2016). Encounters with secrecy when studying security. Paper presented at European Association of Social Anthropology.
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] [Portal]
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] [Portal]
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.