ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to unpack and explicate the character and dynamics of hybridization that occur at the micro-level in everyday security and justice practices, which involves separation and positive accommodation among the local, state, international and so forth. It presents an analytical shift from interactions between state institutions and non-state authorities to the enactment and performativity of authority. To show how hybridization unfolds in practice, the subject and the simultaneous quality of how an individual assembles and projects authority is brought into focus throughout the chapter. The case of diamond theft explored in the chapter demonstrates how the subject assembles a multiplicity of registers simultaneously in an attempt to engage in its resolution. The chapter argues that focusing on how he or she assembles and enacts different sources of authority frames how the tension between sameness and difference is constitutive of processes of authority-making.
