Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-gvvz8 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-01-03T16:50:13.466Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

POLICE WORK IN GHANA - Producing Stateness: Police Work in Ghana. By Jan Beek. Leiden: Brill, 2016. Pp. viii + 237. $84.00, paperback (ISBN: 978-90-04-33217-1); $84.00, e-book (ISBN: 978-90-04-33490-8).

Review products

Producing Stateness: Police Work in Ghana. By Jan Beek. Leiden: Brill, 2016. Pp. viii + 237. $84.00, paperback (ISBN: 978-90-04-33217-1); $84.00, e-book (ISBN: 978-90-04-33490-8).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 March 2020

JOËL GLASMAN
JOËL GLASMAN*
Affiliation:
University of Bayreuth
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'

Keywords

Ghanastatemodernityanthropologycivil society
Type
Reviews of Books
Information
The Journal of African History , Volume 61 , Issue 1 , March 2020 , pp. 140 - 142
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1 On police anthropology, see M. Göpfert, ‘Bureaucratic aesthetics: report writing in the Nigérien gendarmerie’, American Ethnologist, 40 (2013), 324–34; J. Steinberg, Thin Blue: The Unwritten Rules of Policing South Africa (Johannesburg, 2008); J. Hornberger, Policing and Human Rights: The Meaning of Violence and Justice in the Everyday Policing of Johannesburg (London, 2013); S. Biecker and K. Schlichte, ‘Between governance and domination: the everyday life of Uganda's police forces’, in L. Koechlin and T. Förster (eds.), The Politics of Governance: Actors and Articulations in Africa and Beyond (London, 2015), 93–114. On the anthropology of stateness, see J. P. Olivier de Sardan and T. Bierschenk (eds.), States at Work: Dynamics of African Bureaucracies (Leiden, 2014).