State of fear : policing a postcolonial city
Joshua Barker
Bok · Engelsk · 2024
| Omfang | xiv, 309 sider
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| Opplysninger | Fear, policing, and state power -- Ronda : the neighborhood watch -- Neighborhood fears, vigilantism, and street toughs -- Urban panopticon -- Subjects of surveillance -- State of fear -- The police precinct -- Panopticism and prowess in 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 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"--
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| ISBN | 9781478026525. - 9781478030768
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