A Southern policing perspective and appreciative inquiry: an ethnography of policing in Vietnam

Policing knowledge has been dominated by scholarship from the Global North, and largely Western, Anglo-American contexts. Whilst some aspects of Vietnamese society have been exposed to academic and international scrutiny in recent decades, policing norms and structures remain opaque. Exploring why t...

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Main Author: Jardine, Melissa (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: [2020]
In: Policing and society
Year: 2020, Volume: 30, Issue: 2, Pages: 186-205
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Keywords:
Appreciative inquiry
Southern policing
Ethnography
Gender
one-party state
Police
Vietnam

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