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Violence as Usual Policing and the Colonial State in German Southwest Africa
Title
Violence as Usual [electronic resource] : Policing and the Colonial State in German Southwest Africa / Marie A. Muschalek.
ISBN
1501742868
9781501742866
9781501742873
9781501742859
Published
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource.
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Summary
"This book is a historical anthropology of the daily deeds of African and German men enrolled in the colonial police force called the Landespolizei. Exploring first their sociocultural backgrounds and mindsets, as well as their practical habits, the book then describes how these men came to be the key regulators of normalized, functional violence"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - 2020 African Studies
Project MUSE - 2020 Complete
Project MUSE - 2020 History
Other formats
Print version: Muschalek, Marie A., 1978- author. Violence as usual Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 15, 2020
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : everyday violence and the colonial state
Honor, status, masculinity : violent identity formations
Soldier-bureaucrats : the primacy of proper bearing
Of whips, shackles, and guns : tools and technologies of policing
Police work : daily routines and the art of making do
Policing work : violent regulation of the labor market
Conclusion : histories of colonial violence.
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