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9781526165589: Policing race, ethnicity and culture: Ethnographic perspectives across Europe
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ISBN 10: 1526165589 ISBN 13: 9781526165589
Editorial: Manchester University Press, 2023

Sinopsis

The book explores interactions between police officers and citizens in European countries, asking how differences such as race, culture and ethnicity are brought up and in what way they shape these encounters.

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Acerca del autor

Jan Beek is the leader of the research project ‘Police-translations’ in the Department of Anthropology and African Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Thomas Bierschenk is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Annalena Kolloch is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Anthropology and African Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Bernd Meyer is Professor for Intercultural Communication at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

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De la contraportada

How the police deal with difference – in terms of race, ethnicity or culture – has become a key issue for policing. Public discourse is dominated by shocking news events, many of them in the US, but also in Europe. The book investigates everyday interactions between police officers and citizens, often those labelled as ‘migrants’, asking how such differences are brought up and in what way they shape these encounters – with findings that do not fit neatly into the highly polarised contemporary public discourse.

Taking an ethnographic approach, contributors to this volume study the perspectives and rationalities of both police officers and migrantised citizens, with a keen awareness of the asymmetries of power and knowledge. This entails exploring the practices, discourses and beliefs of actors with whom social scientists do not always easily sympathise: police officers. Such a positioning, while often ethically challenging, is unavoidable for a nuanced understanding of policing.

Public discourse and scholarly work on policing have frequently been dominated by news and events from the US. The detailed ethnographic descriptions in this volume highlight how police practices and the practices of othering vary widely, even within Europe, and that the unique trajectories of modern US history may not provide a productive framework to understand the policing of differences elsewhere. By studying these questions in ten European countries, each with a particular history of policing and othering, the book contributes to the development of a comparative and distinctly European perspective on policing.

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Editorial
Manchester University Press
Año de publicación
2023
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1526165589
ISBN 13 
9781526165589
Encuadernación
Tapa dura
Número de páginas
348
Editor
Kolloch Annalena, Beek Jan, Bierschenk Thomas
Contacto del fabricante
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Persona responsable
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