State of Fear: Policing a Postcolonial City

by Joshua Barker

Book Overview

In State of Fear, Joshua Barker reckons with how fear and violence are produced and reproduced through everyday practices of rule and control. Examining the ethnographic and historical genealogies of Indonesian policing, Barker focuses on the city of Bandung, which is permeated by anxieties about security, all in spite of the fact that it's a relatively safe city according to the data. Drawing from his fieldwork there during the latter years...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478030763
• ISBN13: 9781478030768
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"