From Family to Police Force : : Security and Belonging on a South Asian Border / / Farhana Ibrahim.
From Family to Police Force engages with policing through the production and contestation of social, familial, and national order on a South Asian borderland. Farhana Ibrahim looks beyond the obvious sites, sources and modes of policing. She posits that policing is distinct from the police as instit...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Police/Worlds: Studies in Security, Crime, and Governance
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (210 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Transliteration
- Introduction
- PART I. LANDSCAPES OF POLICING
- 1. Policing Everyday Life on a Border
- 2. Militarism and Everyday Peace: Gender, Labor, and Policing across “Civil-Military” Terrains
- PART II. POLICING AND THE FAMILY
- 3. Policing Muslim Marriage: The Specter of the “Bengali” Wife
- 4. Blood and Water: The “Bengali” Wife and Close-Kin Marriage among Muslims
- 5. The Work of Belonging: Citizenship and Social Capital across the Thar Desert
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Index