How to deal with differences based on culture, ethnicity and race, has become a key issue of policing. This edited collected explores everyday, often mundane interactions between police officers and migrantised actors in European countries and asks how both sides deal with perceived differences. The contributions reflect that such differences are not just 'out there' but are being situationally (re-)produced in police-citizen encounters. By taking a comparative approach, the book develops a distinctly European perspective on these questions. The book contains 12 ethnographies from ten European countries, based on new and often innovative empirical research, two theoretical contributions, an introduction and a postface. -- .
Rezensionen / Stimmen
'This book is a recommended study that nicely incorporates anthropology, criminology, history, linguistics, and sociology.'
Ryan Shaffer, Ethnic and Racial Studies
'The ethnographic observations on Europe at the center of Policing race, ethnicity and culture: Ethnographic perspectives across Europe are much appreciated because the literature on policing and racial relations is typically heavily focused on the United States. This book effectively situates race, ethnicity and culture at the center of how police forces (re)produce - and govern - moral and institutional parameters, allowing for a comparative study of police relationships with newcomers in Europe.'
Muhammad Asad Latif, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics
'Policing race, ethnicity and culture provides inspiring leads for future studies of the police and of migrant-state interactions in Europe. It is, therefore, a must read for both students and researchers across the board of social sciences.'
Sophie Andreetta, Legal Pluralism and Critical Social Analysis
'Through the diversity of the contexts studied and [...] a real empirical anchoring which leaves a large place for the words of the actors [...] this work makes an important contribution to the analysis of the role of the police in the (re)production of racial categories in European societies.'
Paul Grassin, Government and Public Action -- .
Sprache
Verlagsort
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
Illustrationen
3 tables and 6 b&w figures
Maße
Höhe: 240 mm
Breite: 161 mm
Dicke: 23 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-1-5261-6558-9 (9781526165589)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
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 -- .
Introduction
Policing differences: perspectives from Europe - Jan Beek, Thomas Bierschenk and Annalena Kolloch
Part I: Categorizations of difference in police work
1 Police racism in France and Germany: occupational socialisation and institutional guidelines - Jeremie Gauthier and Jacques de Maillard
2 Policing order: ethnicity in statistics and the functions of nationalism - Rebecca Pates
3 Predictively policed: the Dutch CAS case and its forerunners - Paul Mutsaers and Tom van Nuenen
4 The social construction of parallel society in Swedish police documents - Ida Nafstad
Part II: Doing differences in everyday policing
5 Dirty Harry gone global? On globalising policing and punitive impotence - David Sausdal
6 Instrumentalising racism in Russian policing: everyday interactions between police officers and migrants - Ekaterina Khodzhaeva
7 Negotiating with ethnic diversity: perceptions and patterns in everyday police work in Germany - Nina Mueller
8 'Do you understand? Yes, you understand.': bureaucratic translations of difference during deportation talks in Switzerland - Lisa Marie Borrelli
Part III: Policing as translation
9 Inclusive and non-inclusive modes of communication in multilingual operational police training - Annalena Kolloch and Bernd Meyer
10 Talking with hands and feet: language differences and translation in German policing - Jan Beek and Marcel Mueller
11 The Portuguese police and colonial legacies: when language divides - Susana Durao
Part IV: Police officers and ethnographers
12 Albanian culture and major crime: challenging culturalist assumptions among investigating UK police - Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers
13 Approaching foreign milieus: experiences from a joint seminar with police trainees and anthropology students - Gisela Pauli Caldas and Thomas Widlok
Postface
Authorizing race: on police reproduction of difference - Ian Loader -- .
