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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Police/Worlds: Studies in Security, Crime, and GovernancePublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (192 p.) : 1 mapContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781501747229
  • 9781501747236
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 363.2/3096626091734 23
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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.
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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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)