Format:
1 Online-Ressource (ix, 255 Seiten)
Edition:
[Online-Ausgabe]
ISBN:
9781501742866
Content:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Everyday Violence and the Colonial State -- 1. Honor, Status, Masculinity: Violent Identity Formations -- 2. Soldier-Bureaucrats: The Primacy of Proper Bearing -- 3. Of Whips, Shackles, and Guns: Tools and Technologies of Policing -- 4. Police Work: Daily Routines and the Art of Making Do -- 5. Policing Work: Violent Regulation of the Labor Market -- Conclusion: Histories of Colonial Violence -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Content:
Slaps in the face, kicks, beatings, and other forms of run-of-the-mill violence were a "idian part of life in German Southwest Africa at the beginning of the twentieth century. Unearthing this culture of normalized violence in a settler colony, Violence as Usual uncovers the workings of a powerful state that was built in an improvised fashion by low-level state representatives.Marie A. Muschalek's fascinating portrayal of the daily deeds of African and German men enrolled in the colonial police force called the Landespolizei is a historical anthropology of police practice and the normalization of imperial power. Replete with anecdotes of everyday experiences both of the policemen and of colonized people and settlers, Violence as Usual reexamines fundamental questions about the relationship between power and violence. Muschalek gives us a new perspective on violence beyond the solely destructive and the instrumental. She overcomes, too, the notion that modern states operate exclusively according to modes of rationalized functionality. Violence as Usual offers an unusual assessment of the history of rule in settler colonialism and an alternative to dominant narratives of an ostensibly weak colonial state
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restricted access online access with authorization star
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English
Language:
English
DOI:
10.7591/9781501742866
URL:
http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
