Screen LibraryPolicing and contemporary governance The anthropology of police in practice /
What is it that police and policing actually do? What are the effects? How are these effects mediated and experienced by different people at different times and in different contexts? This volume draws attention to the centrality of police and policing to the project of governance and the experience...
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| Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
| Language: | English |
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What is it that police and policing actually do? What are the effects? How are these effects mediated and experienced by different people at different times and in different contexts? This volume draws attention to the centrality of police and policing to the project of governance and the experience of being human in the contemporary world. To come. |
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Electronic book text. Epublication based on: 9781137309662, 2013. |
| Carrier Form: | 308 p. : 3 b&w, halftones, 3. |
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9781137309662 9781137309679 : 1137309679 : |
| CLC: | D523.3 |
| Contents: | Foreword-- John Comaroff Introduction: Police in Practice: Policing and the Project of Contemporary Governance-- William Garriott PART I: POLICING THE EVERYDAY 1. Invading the Favela: Echoes of Police Practices Among Brazil's Urban Poor-- Benjamin Penglase 2. Policing Methamphetamine: Police Power and the War on Drugs in a Rural US Community-- William Garriott PART II: POLICE VIOLENCE 3. Adjusting La Police: the Use of Distance in the Calibration of Legitimate Violence Among the Police Nationale-- Kevin Karpiak 4. The Paradox of Police Violence in Democratic Brazil-- Teresa Caldeira 5. Dirty |