... essential in England, France, and Germany's colonial governance, fingerprinting, photographs, criminal files, and other form of biometrics and information management were relied on heavily by the US police. These methods created “paper suspects” capable of being read and deciphered by police, even while...

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... that is manifested in the inordinately high number of police officers who are killed each year. In this chapter, the contemporary history of the armed wings of the informal and illicit economies, and how they have overwhelmed the police, are explored. informal policing drug economies regulation of informal...

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... The work of private security guards is critical in the establishment of non-state sovereignty in the market. sovereignty security policing informality ...

... In the space of informality and disregulation, new and competing sovereigns emerge, especially to do the work of providing security in the market. sovereignty security policing privatization ...

... by an anxious public due to concerns over their ability to police white women in a respectful way. Informed by racial science, early eugenics, and anti-vice and corruption investigations of the era, NYPD commissioner Theodore Roosevelt articulated a scientific vision of a hierarchy of races based on how well...

... for a state that no longer exists. State estrangement is explored both as lack of coordination between state institutions, and as misrecognition of state institutions by the sovereign. policing informal economies corruption concept of the uncanny ...

... of “brothers” who shared an institutional history and collaborated in an illicit economy. Fraternities shaped how surveillance, law enforcement, and efforts to maintain territorial security were carried out at the front line of police work, bridging the gap between central state power and informal territorial...

... This chapter introduces territoriality and surveillance as key concepts for understanding fear, policing, and state power in urban Indonesia. It situates these concepts within recent anthropological scholarship on informal sovereignties globally as well as within area studies scholarship...

... to maintain territorial security were carried out at the front line of police work, bridging the gap between central state power and informal territorial sovereignties. In doing so, however, fraternities also contributed to public perceptions of police “corruption,” which had the effect of undermining...

... The automation of US border enforcement began through experimental practices such as the case of the electronic fence. Initially designed to help police the geopolitical boundaries between North and South Vietnam, this intrusion detection system shows how the cybernetic border relies on human...

... in Tahrir Square in relation to the development of the neopatrimonial police state in Egypt, as well as demonstrating the ways in which this history informed the 2011 revolution; and (3) a discussion of the rise of social media in political dissent, particularly in the decade before the uprising, situating...

... In the days following the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, BTS made a $1 million donation to Black Lives Matter, a donation that was quickly matched by ARMY worldwide. During the uprisings that summer, K-Pop stans jammed police surveillance websites with fancams, and visual artists...

... is information that police use to advance an investigation. Intelligence is not admissible in court for two reasons. First, it is often too vague to help make a case for or against a defendant. Second, more germane to this chapter, the methods by which it is obtained do not qualify it to be admitted in court...

... the dominant thesis leans heavily on a set of claims about human embodiment: that human bodies have shared motor schema, similar relations to objects, and shared phenomenological experiences of the world, all of which facilitate the automatic transfer of intersubjective information about what the other...

... Every story has multiple sides to it, as a meeting with the Municipal Police reveals. narrative fieldwork ethnography police ...

... intervention audience resistance resilience Palestine Kelly Gillespie analyzes the conditions under which her testimony was requested at a commission investigating police brutality in the township of Khayelitsha in South Africa. While she was expected to confirm the commonsense idea according...

... organized by Chinese associations. Proposals for containing the black market and its Chinese connections include the expulsion of street vendors and strengthening of police capacities, but the social dimensions of the informal sector remain unaddressed. The state government of Baja California...