From Family to Police Force illuminates the production and contestation of social, familial, and national order on a South Asian borderland. In the borderland that divides Kutch, a district in the western Indian state of Gujarat, from Sindh, a southern province in Pakistan, there are many forces at work: civil and border police, the air wing of the armed forces, paramilitary forces, and various intelligence agencies that depute officers to the region. These groups are the major actors in the field of security and policing. Farhana Ibrahim offers a bird’s-eye view of these groups, drawing on long-standing anthropological engagement with the region. She observes policing on multiple levels, showing in detail that the nation-state is only one of the scales at which policing is enacted at a borderland.
Ibrahim draws on multiple sources and forms of policing structure to illuminate everyday interaction on the personal scale, bringing families and individuals into the broader picture. From Family to Police Force looks beyond the obvious sites, sources, and modes of policing to show the distinctions between the act of policing and the institution of the police.
Tabella dei contenuti
Introduction
PART I: LANDSCAPES OF POLICING
1. Policing Everyday Life on a Border
2. Militarism and Everyday Peace: Gender, Labor, and Policing across ‘Civil-Military’ Terrains
PART II: POLICING AND THE FAMILY
3. Policing Muslim Marriage: The Specter of the ‘Bengali’ Wife
4. Blood and Water: The ‘Bengali’ Wife and Close-Kin Marriage among Muslims
5. The Work of Belonging: Citizenship and Social Capital across the Thar Desert
Conclusion
Circa l’autore
Farhana Ibrahim is Professor of Sociology at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. She is author of Settlers, Saints and Sovereigns.
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