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  1. Insecure guardians
    enforcement, encounters, and everyday policing in post-colonial Karachi
    Author: Waseem, Zoha
    Published: [2022]; © 2022
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, New York, NY

    The police force is one of the most distrusted institutions in Pakistan, notorious for its corruption and brutality. In both colonial and postcolonial contexts, directives to confront security threats have empowered law enforcement agents, while the... more

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    Universitätsbibliothek der LMU München
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    The police force is one of the most distrusted institutions in Pakistan, notorious for its corruption and brutality. In both colonial and postcolonial contexts, directives to confront security threats have empowered law enforcement agents, while the lack of adequate reform has upheld institutional weaknesses. This exploration of policing in Karachi, Pakistan's largest city and financial capital, reveals many colonial continuities. Both civilian and military regimes continue to ensure the suppression of the policed via this institution, itself established to militarily subjugate and exploit in the interests of the ruling class. However, contemporary policing practice is not a simple product of its colonial heritage: it has also evolved to confront new challenges and political realities. Based on extensive fieldwork and almost 150 interviews, this ethnographic study reveals a distinctly'postcolonial condition of policing.'Mutually reinforcing phenomena of militarisation and informality have been exacerbated by an insecure state that routinely conflates combatting crime, maintaining public order and ensuring national security. This is evident not only in spectacular displays of violence and malpractice, but also in police officers'routine work. Caught in the middle of the country's armed conflicts, their encounters with both state and society are a story of insecurity and uncertainty

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780197663615; 9781787386884
    Series: Comparative politics and international studies series
    Subjects: Postkolonialismus; Polizeiaufgabe; Sicherheit; Korruption
    Other subjects: Law enforcement / Pakistan / Karachi; Corruption / Pakistan / Karachi; Corruption; Law enforcement; Pakistan / Karachi
    Scope: xxvii, 364 Seiten, Illustrationen, Karten, 23 cm
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    1. Introduction: Post-Colonial Policing -- 2. Structures of Suppression -- 3. Of Survival and Subsistence -- 4. Beyond the Grey Lines -- 5. The Other Brother -- 6. Conclusion
  2. Insecure guardians
    enforcement, encounters, and everyday policing in post-colonial Karachi
    Author: Waseem, Zoha
    Published: [2022]; © 2022
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, New York, NY

    The police force is one of the most distrusted institutions in Pakistan, notorious for its corruption and brutality. In both colonial and postcolonial contexts, directives to confront security threats have empowered law enforcement agents, while the... more

    Location:
    Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek
    Inter-library loan:
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

     

    The police force is one of the most distrusted institutions in Pakistan, notorious for its corruption and brutality. In both colonial and postcolonial contexts, directives to confront security threats have empowered law enforcement agents, while the lack of adequate reform has upheld institutional weaknesses. This exploration of policing in Karachi, Pakistan's largest city and financial capital, reveals many colonial continuities. Both civilian and military regimes continue to ensure the suppression of the policed via this institution, itself established to militarily subjugate and exploit in the interests of the ruling class. However, contemporary policing practice is not a simple product of its colonial heritage: it has also evolved to confront new challenges and political realities. Based on extensive fieldwork and almost 150 interviews, this ethnographic study reveals a distinctly'postcolonial condition of policing.'Mutually reinforcing phenomena of militarisation and informality have been exacerbated by an insecure state that routinely conflates combatting crime, maintaining public order and ensuring national security. This is evident not only in spectacular displays of violence and malpractice, but also in police officers'routine work. Caught in the middle of the country's armed conflicts, their encounters with both state and society are a story of insecurity and uncertainty

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780197663615; 9781787386884
    Series: Comparative politics and international studies series
    Subjects: Postkolonialismus; Polizeiaufgabe; Sicherheit; Korruption
    Other subjects: Law enforcement / Pakistan / Karachi; Corruption / Pakistan / Karachi; Corruption; Law enforcement; Pakistan / Karachi
    Scope: xxvii, 364 Seiten, Illustrationen, Karten, 23 cm
    Notes:

    1. Introduction: Post-Colonial Policing -- 2. Structures of Suppression -- 3. Of Survival and Subsistence -- 4. Beyond the Grey Lines -- 5. The Other Brother -- 6. Conclusion