Cultivating suspicion : an ethnography.

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Junck, Leah Davina
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Mankon, Bamenda : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, 2019
Subjects:
Xenophobia > South Africa.
Xénophobie > Afrique du Sud.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Social conditions
Xenophobia
South Africa > Social conditions.
Afrique du Sud > Conditions sociales.
South Africa
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Contextualising crime
  • Inserting the self in the field : How to 'do' research on vulnerability and ethnographic methods as ethics
  • The everyday texture and architecture of fear in the suburb : patrollers and their strategies and accessories of security
  • The Phantom Suspect : Cultivating and embodying suspicion in Observatory
  • Dancing with the devil : patrolling as performance
  • 'Couch patrolling' and the virtual embodiment of the Observatory Neighbourhood Watch
  • Conclusions : Masking vulnerability and other comforts of being a patroller.

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