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Policing the frontier : an ethnography of two worlds in Niger / Mirco Göpfert.
LIBRA HV8276.7.A2 G66 2020
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Göpfert, Mirco, 1984- author.
- Series:
- Police/worlds
- Police/worlds : studies in security, crime, and governance
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Police, Rural--Niger.
- Police, Rural.
- Ethnology--Niger.
- Ethnology.
- Rural conditions.
- Niger.
- Niger--Rural conditions.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 175 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- "This book explores what it means to be a gendarme investigating cases, writing reports, and settling disputes in a rural community in Niger and also addresses the irresolvable tension between bureaucratic forms and peoples' lives"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- A handful of gendarmes, two worlds, and the frontier between
- A history of the gendarmerie in Niger
- A story of a murder, no traces and nothing to report:
- The ear : listening to noise, hearing cases
- The eye : surveillance and the problem of "seeing things"
- The pen : report writing and bureaucratic aesthetics
- Drama work
- Repair work
- Tragic work
- Postscript : on the significance of the frontier.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-169) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Göpfert, Mirco, 1984- Policing the frontier
- ISBN:
- 9781501747212
- 1501747215
- 9781501747229
- 1501747223
- OCLC:
- 1104073956
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