Policing the Frontier : An Ethnography of Two Worlds in Niger /

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"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"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Göpfert, Mirco, 1984- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2020.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Rural conditions.
Police, Rural.
Ethnology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Ethnologie > Niger.
Police rurale > Niger.
Ethnology > Niger.
Police, Rural > Niger.
Niger.
Niger > Rural conditions.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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