State of fear: policing a postcolonial city

"State of Fear is an ethnography of policing in Bandung, Indonesia, during the latter years of President Suharto's authoritarian New Order administration. Drawing on fieldwork primarily from the 1990s, Joshua Barker examines the complex relationships between vigilante groups and the regime...

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1. VerfasserIn: Barker, Joshua 1967- (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Druck Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Durham London Duke University Press 2024
In:Jahr: 2024
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Zusammenfassung:"State of Fear is an ethnography of policing in Bandung, Indonesia, during the latter years of President Suharto's authoritarian New Order administration. Drawing on fieldwork primarily from the 1990s, Joshua Barker examines the complex relationships between vigilante groups and the regimes of the state, showing how fear and violence are produced and reproduced through everyday practices of rule. The book traces a path through local institutions and sites to demonstrate the regular use of policing technologies and tactics in Indonesian cities, framing its analysis in terms of surveillance and territoriality. Through the book's three parts, Barker explores security as a territorial function, constructs a genealogy of police practices and urban surveillance within the context of colonial rule, and charts the development of postcolonial policing practices. In doing so, Barker juxtaposes the dualist struggle between a modernist abstractionist approach to urban order and a decentralized territorial version, engaging ideas of power and highlighting the global effects of everyday policing"--
Joshua Barker reckons with how fear and violence are produced and reproduced through everyday practices of rule and control by examining the ethnographic and historical genealogies of Indonesian policing
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Physische Details:xiv, 309 Seiten, Illustrationen, Karten
ISBN:9781478030768
9781478026525