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State of Fear: Policing a Postcolonial City

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Availability:In StockContributor:Joshua BarkerPublish date:2024-09-06Pages:328
Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9781478030768ISBN-10:1478030763UPC:9781478030768Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Anthropology, Cultural & Ethnic Studies, Privacy & Surveillance (see also Political ScienceBook Topic:Cultural & Social, Asian Studies, Privacy & SurveillanceSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.73 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SC6R00JXE0
In State of Fear, Joshua Barker reckons with how fear and violence are produced and reproduced through everyday practices of rule and control. Examining the ethnographic and historical genealogies of Indonesian policing, Barker focuses on the city of Bandung, which is permeated by anxieties about security, in spite of the fact that it's a relatively safe city according to the data. Drawing from his fieldwork there during the latter years of the authoritarian New Order regime, Barker traces the complex relationship between the state and vigilante groups like neighborhood watch patrols and street gangs. Through interviews with police officers, vigilantes, and street-level toughs, he uncovers a struggle between two visions of social control that continues to animate policing in Indonesia: the modern, bureaucratic approach favored by the state, and a territorial approach that divides the city into fiefdoms overseen by charismatic individuals of authority. Synthesizing insights from in-depth ethnographic, historical, and theoretical work, Barker reveals how authoritarianism can take root not just from the top down but also from the bottom up.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9781478030768ISBN-10:1478030763UPC:9781478030768Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Anthropology, Cultural & Ethnic Studies, Privacy & Surveillance (see also Political ScienceBook Topic:Cultural & Social, Asian Studies, Privacy & SurveillanceSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.73 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SC6R00JXE0
Joshua Barker is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto and coeditor of Figures of Southeast Asian Modernity and State of Authority: State in Society in Indonesia.
Publisher: Duke University Press

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