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March 17, 2010
9:34
CFP – THE CULTURE CONCEPT IN CONTEMPORARY CIRCULATION
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(This CFP seems relevant to this dialogue about the utility of theorizing policing around a concept of culture) Call For Papers — Proposed Session for AAA 2010 THE CULTURE CONCEPT IN CONTEMPORARY CIRCULATION Does the culture concept have a place ...
February 24, 2010
10:34
Resolved: Culture is the Center of the Anthropology of Policing
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This is the second entry in my series of posts on the question: “What is the curriculum for the anthropology of policing?” As promised, in this post I will share a syllabus I taught last semester, and follow Kevin’s lead ...
February 13, 2010
1:26
L’anthropoliteia In the News (12-février-2012)
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That’s right, since I haven’t done one of these in a while, since my stock of saved links has become overwhelming and since a string of news events this week has got my mojo running, I’ve decided to do a ...
February 09, 2010
10:28
What is the Curriculum for the Anthropology of Policing?
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Hello Anthropolitians, After surviving baptisms by fire, ice and everything in between (lukewarm beer, mostly) in my new position, I now have recovered enough to aspire to blog. In particular I hope, over the next few months, to write a ...
February 05, 2010
0:08
Studying Military, Security Intelligence Communities Ethics Casebook by the American Anthropological Association
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I don’t know how many of you have been following the machinations of the CEAUSSIC committee of the American Anthropological Association, but over the last several years they’ve been getting together to think through the admittedly thorny problem of the ...
December 20, 2009
15:05
Deja vu all over again: the recurring problem of post-social policing in France
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An update along the lines of our continued interest in policing “after the financial crisis”… Le Monde reports that, come January 2010, there will be a full stop on the deployment of the unités territoriales de quartier (UTEQ), the socially-oriented ...
December 02, 2009
19:24
Reflections on Police Violence at Berkeley
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I’ve been meaning to provoke a bit more discussion regarding the confrontation between police and protesters at UC Berkeley a couple of weeks ago (although I did post something on the matter before the Nov 20th occupation), but the demands ...
November 20, 2009
22:54
Panels on Policing Security at the 2009 American Anthropoligical Association Annual Meetings
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I’ve compiled a list of panels and individual papers on security and policing-related issues at the upcoming AAA meetings. You can see them below. I’d like to give a special shout-out to the panel THE END/S OF POLICING: ETHNOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVES ...
November 18, 2009
22:29
More on Racial Profiling Allegations in Lake County
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From the Lake County News article by Elizabeth Larson: Deputy’s association calls racial profiling allegations false; sheriff plans to release documents Written by Elizabeth Larson Tuesday, 17 November 2009 LAKE COUNTY – On Monday, the county’s sheriff’s deputy association called ...
15:40
Jonathan Simon’s provocative thoughts on the UC Strike
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Over at Governing through Crime, UC Professor Jonathan Simon has some provocative words for those participating in the current 3-day UC strike: ….We ought to be united in mobilization to save higher education in California. But in choosing to make ...
November 16, 2009
21:20
Anthropoliteia at the American Anthropological Association’s 2009 Annual Meetings, pt. 1
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As we get closer to this years Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, I’ll be calling our attention to several of the police & security-related panels and events that will be a part of the “festivities.” As I’ve already ...
November 13, 2009
15:19
Police speak out against racial profiling in Lake County, California
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Mad props to fellow Anthropolitician Brian Lande (socdeputy to ya’ll) who, along with some former colleagues of the Lake County Sheriff’s Department, spoke out on KGO-TV (that’s ABC channel 7, to y’all in the Bay Area) against the systematic racial ...
November 12, 2009
23:03
Anthropoliteia In the News (through 11/13/09)
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To quote Timbaland, “It’s been a long time/ Shouldn’t have left you / without a dope beat to step to” That’s right, it’s time for one more pre-AAA Annual Meetings edition of Anthropoliteia In The News. Cultural Anthropology & Security ...
November 04, 2009
21:00
Claude Levi-Strauss on police
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If you haven’t heard the news yet, anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss passed away last week. his passing has sparked a considerable amount of reflection and commentary–including a couple of attempts to synthesize, or, on the other hand, separate out a particular aspect ...
October 29, 2009
23:29
New Virtual Issue of Culural Anthropology on “security”
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Once I get done with these midterm exams, I’ve been itching to get another edition of Anthropoliteia In the News out, but this is too exciting to wait: one of our fellow anthropoliteians, Michelle Stewart, has co-edited a special online ...
October 06, 2009
18:36
October AN Addresses the Economic Crisis
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As part of the continuing project to think through policing in the financial crisis, i thought it would be helpful to highlight the current issue of Anthropology News, which gives examples of anthropological takes on the same issue in other ...
October 02, 2009
19:15
“Policing After the Financial Crisis” Resource
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Because I think this it something that we need to keep talking about, I’ve created a new “feature” category call “after the crisis”. Posts on this topic can now be found by selecting this category (on the toolbar the left). ...
September 25, 2009
3:39
Policing and the Recession
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In response to Kevin’s inquiry as to whether or not there was any reporting being done on the impact of the recession on policing, I have posted the following articles: Budget cuts that are the result of the recession have ...
3:14
What can people say to cops?
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An article in Time Magazine reviews the practice of siting people for using offensive language and gestures towards police officers. It is a nice and more general followup to the issues surrounding the arrest of Henry Gates. [www.time.com] Posted ...
September 23, 2009
16:49
Of Police, Provinces, and Professionalization
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Came across this today via H-Net Reviews: Zhiqiu Lin. Policing the Wild North-West: A Sociological Study of the Provinvial Police in Alberta and Saskatchewan, 1905-1932. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2006. 210 pp. $34.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-55238-171-7. Reviewed by Joel ...
September 22, 2009
20:59
Policing after the “financial crisis”
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So I did a little bit of “exploratory ethnography” here in my new home of Worcester, MA by going to a Public Safety Commission Meeting. There’s plenty that could be said about it, even though it lasted all of ten ...
8:17
Anthropolitea in the News (week of 9/14/09)
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The past week found executions (and the questions that surround capital punishment) in the news. In Ohio, the execution of Romell Broom was “botched” and eventually called off when technicians were unable to deliver the lethal injection citing his drug ...
September 11, 2009
8:38
Anthropolitea in the News 9/10 – 9/11
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FIRST UP – Terrorist stop and search laws used on children (and 157,000 other times) in UK — Boing Boing asks: will watchdog agency begin watching? SECOND UP – Graffiti artist receives four year prison sentence and we wonder why ...
September 09, 2009
20:50
UC BERKELEY CONFERENCE: Queering Race, Policing Bodies: Militarization Resistance | Center For Race Gender | CRG
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Queering Race, Policing Bodies: Militarization & Resistance Presenter: “Documents and Disguises: Transgender Politics, Travel, and U.S. State Surveillance,” Toby Beauchamp, UC Davis Presenter2: “The Face of Gays in the Military: Neoliberalism, Multiculturalism, and the ‘Right to Fight,’” Liz Montegary, UC ...
4:13
1000 Visits
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Let’s all take a minute to congratulate ourselves on a rip-roaring start! We’ve officially past the 1000 visit mark… Well done everyone, now for 10,000! Posted in Administration...
0:24
Anthropoliteia In the News 9/8/09
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If you’ve been so caught up in the story of the East Bay kidnapping uncovered by UC Berkeley police (for a cogent analysis, and some myth-busting regarding what parole can accomplish, see Jonathan Simon’s post over at Prawfsblog) that you ...
September 02, 2009
17:14
Special issue of the Journal of European Studies: Crime and Madness in Modern Germany
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Just a FYI to keep us up to date on anthropoliteia “out of place” (i.e. where you normally wouldn’t expect it): Special Issue: Crime and Madness in Modern Germany September 2009, Volume 39, No. 3 Guest editors: Ofer Ashkenazi, Udi ...
August 24, 2009
20:22
1,000 cameras ’solve one crime’
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Only one crime was solved by each 1,000 CCTV cameras in London last year, a report into the city’s surveillance network has claimed. [Access BBC article] The internal police report found the million-plus cameras in London rarely help catch criminals. ...
August 13, 2009
8:18
Please support Dr. Janice Harper
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Janice Harper was an Assistant Professor with the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, who was denied tenure earlier this spring and fired from her position with the university on July 31, 2009. An anthropologist, Dr. Harper has made valuable contributions to medical ...
4:12
Control as Explanation and as Topic to be Explained
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Peter Moskos wrote a great editorial, “The Cop’s Eye View” in the Baltimore Sun in which he discusses a number of issues related to the Gates arrest. He describes the well known tactics for making someone arrestable by convincing them ...
August 07, 2009
21:14
Tasers, tasers and more tasers: this time at an Oakland A’s game
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It’s becoming clear that “the taser” will have to be one of the things we think through… Another incident, this time right here in the East Bay: According to Oakland Police spokesman Jeff Thomason, the unidentified man was allegedly drunk ...
July 28, 2009
22:27
Colbert on tasers
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I don’t know how useful this is, but after seeing it last night I can’t help myself: more about “Colbert on tasers“, posted with vodpod Posted in Commentary, Random Tagged: police, stephen colbert, taser, use of force ...
1:00
Foucault on anthropoliteia: “The police’s true object is man.”
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Michel Foucault, discussing Louis Turquet de Mayerne’s 1611 treatise on the police Aristo-democratic Monarchy: The “police” appears as an administration heading the state, together with the judiciary, the army, and the exchequer. True. yet in fact, it embraces everything else. ...
July 27, 2009
16:22
Steering the Teachable Momentum of the Gates Arrest in an Anthropological Direction.
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Public discussion of the Gates arrest is all over the place: people with a stake in race issues insist on speaking about race, analysts of governing technologies attempt to bracket race and focus on procedure, libertarians focus on citizen rights, ...
July 26, 2009
2:58
Anthropoliteia In the News 7/25/09
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The Henry Louis Gates Affair Besides the fiasco that occurred in and outside the home of prominent Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.– and that’s been burning up the news wires, television talk show circuit and radio waves (and being ...
0:11
BookWars
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Jeff and I have been talking about ways to include discussions of pedagogy on Anthropoliteia, so I thought I’d give a shout out to a neat little documentary I came across recently (actually it was recommended to me by Gary ...
July 25, 2009
6:06
Obama Tries to Defuse Gates Controversy
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A series of articles and reports have come out today based on Obama trying to diffuse the Gates controversy: See NPR’s story by clicking here. Also listen to Sgt. Crowley tell his side of the story, Sgt. Who Arrested Gates ...
July 24, 2009
4:29
Cop For a Day
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A funny video that probably summarizes how most cops are responding to the Gates fiasco. I know I had the gut reaction of, “They [the public, the media, academics, pick your filler] don’t know what it is like to do ...

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