TY  - BOOK
AU  - Göpfert,Mirco
TI  - Policing the Frontier: An Ethnography of Two Worlds in Niger 
T2  - Police/Worlds: Studies in Security, Crime, and Governance
SN  - 9781501747229
U1  - 363.2/3096626091734 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY : 
PB  - Cornell University Press, 
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Niger
KW  - Police, Rural
KW  - African Hist & Diaspora
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Criminal Sociology
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - bureaucracy, security sector reform, Sahel region, African state, political anthropology
N1  - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501747236?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501747236
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501747236/original
ER  -