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Online-Ressource
ISSN:
1866-2447
Content:
Abstract: The legitimacy of police action is derived from the stateness and legal binding that is visible in the action itself. Specifically, the exercise of police violence serves to legitimize the police by asserting that such violence is applied in a moderate, lawful, objective, and, above all, impartial manner, free from personal interests of the police officers. This notion of neutral professionalism, attributed to police actions and claimed by the police, is part of a performative representation of police action. Following a praxeological understanding of emotions as doing emotion, this article explores the affective dimensions of violence and anger as part of a comprehensive physically performed and sensually experienced performance in everyday police work. On the basis of ethnographic research, the article demonstrates how anger is manifested as an emotional practice in order to make the state's promise of a restrained use of force credible
In:
volume:16
In:
number:1
In:
pages:29-40
In:
Behemoth, Freiburg : Universität, Br. : Univ.-Bibl., 2008-, 16, Heft 1, 29-40, 1866-2447
Language:
English
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German
DOI:
10.6094/behemoth.2023.16.1.1088
URN:
urn:nbn:de:bsz:25-freidok-2386675
URL:
https://doi.org/10.6094/behemoth.2023.16.1.1088
URL:
https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:25-freidok-2386675
URL:
https://d-nb.info/1300238496/34
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