Julia Hornberger

Policing and Human Rights (eBook, PDF)

The Meaning of Violence and Justice in the Everyday Policing of Johannesburg

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Policing and Human Rights analyses the implementation of human rights standards, tracing them from the nodal points of their production in Geneva, through the board rooms of national police management and training facilities, to the streets of downtown Johannesburg.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136746987
• Artikelnr.: 38270458

Autorenporträt

Julia Hornberger is senior researcher in Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Zurich and a research fellow at the African Centre for Migration and Society, University of the Witwatersrand. She is also a cofounder of the Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism. Her research interests are justice, policing, the social life of law, violence and the international policing of counterfeit goods and health.

Inhaltsangabe

1.Introduction
2. Remembering the Police
3. From Geneva to Johannesburg: Human rights Training
4. 'Don't Push this Constitution down my throat...'; the use of violence in
everyday policing
5. 'Your Police - my police': the informal privatisation of policing
6. 'Omms gaan ry!': on entanglement and human rights as violence
7. Conclusion: human rights in their ordinary state