Tessa Diphoorn

Tessa Diphoorn is an Associate Professor at the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Utrecht University. Between 2017-2020 she worked on a research project titled 'Policing the Police in Kenya: Analysing state authority from within'. Before that she conducted extensive ethnographic research about private security in South Africa and her book, "Twilight Policing. Private Security and Violence in Urban South Africa", has been published with the University of California Press (2016). She is also the co-founder and host of the podcast series Travelling Concepts on Air.