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

In Policing the Frontier, the second book in the Police/Worlds series Mirco Göpfert explores what it means to be a gendarme investigating cases, writing reports, and settling disputes in rural Niger. At the same time, he looks at the larger bureaucracy and the irresolvable tension between bureaucrat...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Police/Worlds: Studies in Security, Crime, and Governance
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Physical Description:1 online resource (192 p.) :; 1 map
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
Acknowledgments --
Part I. INTRODUCTION --
Part II. PRODUCING FORM, OR BUREAUCRATIC SENSES --
Part III. POLICING LIFE, OR BUREAUCRATIC DRAMA --
Postscript: On the Significance of the Frontier --
Notes --
Bibliography --
Index
Summary:In Policing the Frontier, the second book in the Police/Worlds series Mirco Göpfert explores what it means to be a gendarme investigating cases, writing reports, and settling disputes in rural Niger. At the same time, he looks at the larger bureaucracy and the irresolvable tension between bureaucratic structures and procedures and peoples' lives. The world of facts and files exists on one side, and the chaotic and messy human world exists on the other.Throughout Policing the Frontier, Göpfert contends that bureaucracy and police work emerge in a sphere of constant and ambivalent connection and separation. Göpfert's frontier in Niger (and beyond) is seen through ideas of space, condition, and project, packed with constraints and possibilities, riddled with ambiguities, and brutally destructive yet profoundly empowering. As he demonstrates, the tragedy of the frontier becomes as palpable as the true impossibility of police work and bureaucracy.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781501747236
9783110690460
9783110704716
9783110704518
9783110704723
9783110704549
DOI:10.1515/9781501747236?locatt=mode:legacy
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Mirco Göpfert.