Policing the Frontier: An Ethnography of Two Worlds in Niger by Göpfert, Mirco
Policing the Frontier: An Ethnography of Two Worlds in Niger by Göpfert, Mirco

Policing the Frontier: An Ethnography of Two Worlds in Niger

In Policing the Frontier, the second book in the Police/Worlds series Mirco G pfert explores what it...
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Author: Mirco Göpfert
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Language: English
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Policing the Frontier: An Ethnography of Two Worlds in Niger by Göpfert, Mirco

Policing the Frontier: An Ethnography of Two Worlds in Niger

€55,50
Policing the Frontier: An Ethnography of Two Worlds in Niger by Göpfert, Mirco

Policing the Frontier: An Ethnography of Two Worlds in Niger

€55,50
Author: Mirco Göpfert
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description

In Policing the Frontier, the second book in the Police/Worlds series Mirco G pfert 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, G pfert contends that bureaucracy and police work emerge in a sphere of constant and ambivalent connection and separation. G pfert'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.



Author: Mirco Göpfert
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 03/15/2020
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d
ISBN: 9781501747229
Audience: Young Adult


Review Citation(s):
Choice 08/01/2021

About the Author

Mirco Göpfert is Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Goethe University, Frankfurt. He has published numerous articles and is co-editor of Police in Africa. Follow him on Twitter @mirco_goepfert.


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