Policing the Frontier : An Ethnography of Two Worlds in Niger /
"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"--
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, New York :
Cornell University Press,
2020.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.