Producing stateness: police work in Ghana
by Beek, Jan
fromAfrican social studies series
Jan Beek's book explores everyday police work in an African country and analyses how police officers, despite prevailing stereotypes about failed states and African police, produce stateness. Drawing on highly readable ethnographic descriptions, the book shows that Ghanaian poli…
Retrace à la fois l'histoire de l'Etat, celle des statistiques, des bureaux de l'administration, et enfin celle de l'économie dans ses relations avec les statistiques et la modélisation. Administrateur de l'INSEE, l'auteur reconstitue les contingences et les controverses qui déf…
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