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Policing the Border, 1947–1949 Policing the Border, 1947–1949
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Civil-Military Interactions Civil-Military Interactions
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Securitization, Surveillance, and Development Securitization, Surveillance, and Development
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Policing, Subjectivity, and Intimacy Policing, Subjectivity, and Intimacy
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Policing as Sociality Policing as Sociality
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Conclusion Conclusion
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1 Policing Everyday Life on a Border
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Published:November 2021
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Abstract
This chapter reevaluates border policing in terms of networks of sociality rather than as a preconstituted institution or arm of state. It begins with debates on police reorganization that took place along this border in the years immediately following decolonization. These debates give us a critical perspective on what the state considered to be the essential attributes of professional policing: the cultivation of social distance, and attributes such as suspicion and the deployment of fear for effective crime fighting. Once these debates set the context for how institutional policing was envisioned, the chapter opens up the question of policing beyond its institutional or professional forms alone. It determines practices of policing—such as the use of suspicion, fear, and the management of information—as attributes that circulate beyond the formal confines of the police as an arm of the state alone: they can be located within families and communities. The chapter uses the figure of Gulbeg, a charismatic resident on the border, to think more broadly about forms of sovereignty that the author terms adjacent rather than nested within the state, and of modes of policing during times of peace.
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