Violence as usual : policing and the colonial state in German Southwest Africa

Violence as usual policing and the colonial state in German Southwest Africa

Dissertation, Cornell University, 2014

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1. Verfasser: Muschalek, Marie (VerfasserIn)
Körperschaft: Cornell University (Grad-verleihende Institution)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Ithaca, London Cornell University Press 2019
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German Southwest Africa > History > Police > Violence > Germans > Kolonialverwaltung > Kolonialismus > Polizei > Unterdrückung > Gewalttätigkeit > Rassismus > Namibia > Colonization > Deutschland > Deutsches Reich > Hochschulschrift > Deutsch-Südwestafrika > Gewalt > Geschichte 1905-1915
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Zusammenfassung:Dissertation, Cornell University, 2014
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
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
Beschreibung:Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 227-250
Beschreibung:xi, 255 Seiten
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ISBN:9781501742859
978-1-5017-4285-9