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Title Unruly agents: Police reform, bureaucratization, and policemen's agency in interwar Togo
Full text http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/18452/28500; http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/27864
Date 2014
Author(s) Glasman, Joel
Abstract This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively. - In the last few years, our understanding of police forces in Africa has increased significantly. Whilst in previous literature the police tended to be presented as a mere instrument in the hands of state elites, recent studies have shown the ability of policemen to defend their group interests. This article analyses a pivotal moment in the history of French West Africa, namely the creation of theService de Sûretéin the early 1930s. Drawing on archival evidence from Togo, it takes a close look at the shift from military to urban policing, arguing that the bureaucratization of security modified the agency of African policemen. Whereas previously their forms of protest were very much connected with the specific setting of military camps (indiscipline, desertion, rebellion), these now increasingly included written protests within the administration. - Peer Reviewed
Subject(s) 960 Geschichte Afrikas; 966 Westafrika und vorgelagerte Inseln; ddc:960; ddc:966
Language eng
Publisher Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Type of publication article; doc-type:article; publishedVersion
Format application/pdf
Rights http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Identifier urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-110-18452/28500-2; 1469-5138; 10.1017/S0021853713000832
Repository Berlin - Humboldt University of Berlin
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