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Policing and Contemporary Governance This page intentionally left blank Policing and Contemporary Governance The Anthropology of Police in Practice Edited by William Garriott POLICINGANDCONTEMPORARYGOVERNANCE Copyright©WilliamGarriott,2013. Allrightsreserved. Firstpublishedin2013by PALGRAVEMACMILLAN® intheUnitedStates—adivisionofSt.Martin’sPressLLC, 175FifthAvenue,NewYork,NY10010. WherethisbookisdistributedintheUK,EuropeandtherestoftheWorld, thisisbyPalgraveMacmillan,adivisionofMacmillanPublishersLimited, registeredinEngland,companynumber785998,ofHoundmills, Basingstoke,HampshireRG216XS. PalgraveMacmillanistheglobalacademicimprintoftheabove companiesandhascompaniesandrepresentativesthroughouttheworld. Palgrave®andMacmillan®areregisteredtrademarksintheUnited States,theUnitedKingdom,Europeandothercountries. ISBN:978–1–137–30966–2 LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Policingandcontemporarygovernance:theanthropologyofpolice inpractice/editedbyWilliamGarriott. pages cm ISBN978–1–137–30966–2(alk.paper) 1. Police. 2. Police—Cross-culturalstudies. I. Garriott,WilliamCampbell,1977– HV7921.P5822013 363.2(cid:2)3—dc23 2012047873 AcataloguerecordofthebookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. DesignbyIntegraSoftwareServices Firstedition:June2013 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Contents ListofFigures vii ListofTables ix Foreword xi JohnL.Comaroff Acknowledgments xxiii IntroductionPoliceinPractice:PolicingandtheProjectof ContemporaryGovernance 1 WilliamGarriott Part I PolicingtheEveryday 1 InvadingtheFavela:EchoesofPolicePracticesamong Brazil’sUrbanPoor 31 BenjaminPenglase 2 PolicingMethamphetamine:PolicePowerandtheWar onDrugsinaRuralUSCommunity 53 WilliamGarriott Part II PoliceViolence 3 AdjustingLaPolice:TheUseofDistanceintheCalibration ofLegitimateViolenceamongthePoliceNationale 79 KevinG.Karpiak 4 TheParadoxofPoliceViolenceinDemocraticBrazil 97 TeresaP.R.Caldeira 5 DirtyAnthropology:EpistemologiesofViolenceandEthical EntanglementsinPoliceEthnography 125 BeatriceJauregui Part III PoliceCulture 6 PoliceasLinkingPrinciple:RethinkingPoliceCulturein ContemporaryTaiwan 157 JeffreyT.Martin vi CONTENTS 7 ThaiPoliceinRefractiveCulturalPractice 181 EricJ.Haanstad 8 PolicingPrivatePropertyagainstPovertyin MetropolitanManila 207 PhilipC.Parnell 9 InterpolandtheEmergenceofGlobalPolicing 231 MegStalcup Afterword 263 JosephMasco NotesonContributors 269 Index 273 List of Figures 5.1 Strapusedbypolicetothrashpeople 132 7.1 Naresuan261SWATunit 186 7.2 AretiredpoliceofficerwithaprotectiveHanumantattoo showsaThaipolice-associatedamulet 191 This page intentionally left blank List of Tables 4.1 CivilianskilledbypolicemeninthestateofSãoPaulo, 1981–2001 107 9.1 ComparisonofInternationalandGlobalPolicingatInterpol 251

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What is it that police and policing actually do? What are the effects? And how are these effects mediated and experienced by different people at different times and in different contexts? Examining these questions, the contributors in this volume draw attention to the centrality of police and polici
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