From Family to Police Force
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To explore, illustrate, and advance theories about such "policing," Ibrahim draws on her fieldwork in western India's Rann of Kutch desert region, a contested borderland with Pakistan. She analyzes how patriarchs and senior wives deploy domestic secrecy against surveillance by the public, the Indian state, NGOs, and anthropologists.
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From Family to Police Force illuminates the production and contestation of social, familial, and national order on a South Asian borderland. In the borderland that divides Kutch, a district in the western Indian state of Gujarat, from Sindh, a southern province in Pakistan, there are many forces at work: civil and border police, the air wing of the armed forces, paramilitary forces, and various intelligence agencies that depute officers to the region. Les mer
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Ibrahim draws on multiple sources and forms of policing structure to illuminate everyday interaction on the personal scale, bringing families and individuals into the broader picture. From Family to Police Force looks beyond the obvious sites, sources, and modes of policing to show the distinctions between the act of policing and the institution of the police. -- Cornell University Press
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Cornell University Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 210
- ISBN
- 9781501759543
- Utgivelsesår
- 2021
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
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To explore, illustrate, and advance theories about such "policing," Ibrahim draws on her fieldwork in western India's Rann of Kutch desert region, a contested borderland with Pakistan. She analyzes how patriarchs and senior wives deploy domestic secrecy against surveillance by the public, the Indian state, NGOs, and anthropologists.
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