| Description |
1 online resource (x, 175 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
Police/worlds : studies in security, crime, and governance
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Police/worlds.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
A handful of gendarmes, two worlds, and the frontier between -- A history of the gendarmerie in Niger -- A story of a murder, no traces and nothing to report: -- The ear : listening to noise, hearing cases -- The eye : surveillance and the problem of "seeing things" -- The pen : report writing and bureaucratic aesthetics -- Drama work -- Repair work -- Tragic work -- Postscript : on the significance of the frontier. |
| Summary |
"This book explores what it means to be a gendarme investigating cases, writing reports, and settling disputes in a rural community in Niger and also addresses the irresolvable tension between bureaucratic forms and peoples' lives"-- Provided by publisher |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Police, Rural -- Niger.
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Police, Rural. |
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Niger. |
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Ethnology -- Niger.
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Niger -- Rural conditions.
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Ethnology. |
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Rural conditions. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Göpfert, Mirco, 1984- Policing the frontier. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2020 9781501747212 (DLC) 2019026056 |
| ISBN |
9781501747243 (electronic book) |
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150174724X (electronic book) |
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1501747231 (electronic book) |
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9781501747236 (electronic book) |
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9781501747212 (hardcover) |
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9781501747229 (paperback) |
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