ISBN:
978-1-5017-4722-9
,
978-1-5017-4721-2
,
978-1-5017-4723-6 /E-Book
,
978-1-5017-4724-3 /E-Book
Language:
English
Pages:
IX, 175 Seiten
,
1 Karte
Series Statement:
Police\Worlds
DDC:
363.2/3096626091734
Keywords:
Republik Niger Ländliches Gebiet
;
Polizei
;
Strafrecht
;
Administration
;
Soziale Bedingungen
;
Staat und Gesellschaft
Abstract:
"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"--
Description / Table of 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.
