Producing stateness : : police work in Ghana /

Producing stateness : : police work in Ghana / / by Jan Beek.

Jan Beek ’s book explores everyday police work in an African country and analyses how police officers, despite prevailing stereotypes about failed states and African police, produce stateness. Drawing on highly readable ethnographic descriptions, the book shows that Ghanaian police practices often i...

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Beek, Jan.
Place / Publishing House:Boston : : Brill,, 2016.
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:African Social Studies Series 36.
Physical Description:1 online resource (245 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction
  • The History of Police Work: Travelling Models
  • The Internal Organisation of the Police: Movements and Moral Orders
  • Dockets, Police Community, and Politics: Bureaucratic Order in the Police
  • Money, Morals, and Law at Traffic Checks: Registers in Police Interactions
  • Patrolling Public Spaces: Relational Stateness
  • Criminal Investigations: Boundary Work and Boundary Shifting
  • Private Security, Vigilantes, and Neighbours: Relating to Other Policing Actors
  • Three Police Officers: Living Bureaucratically
  • Conclusion: Stateness as Aura
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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