Policing the Frontier by Mirco Gopfert PAPERBACK 9781501747229

Policing the Frontier\nby Mirco Gopfert\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Mirco Gopfert\nTitle: Policing the Frontier\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Police and security services\nPublisher: Cornell University Press\nPublication year: 2020\nISBN-13: 9781501747229\nISBN-10: 1501747223\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nIn Policing the Frontier, the second book in the Police/Worlds series Mirco G\u00F6pfert explores what it means to be a gendarme investigating cases, writing reports, and settling disputes in rural Niger. At the same time, he looks at the larger bureaucracy and the irresolvable tension between bureaucratic structures and procedures and peoples'' lives. The world of facts and files exists on one side, and the chaotic and messy human world exists on the other.\nT.