In this powerful, compassionate work, one of anthropology's most distinguished ethnographers weaves together rich fieldwork with a compelling critical analysis in a book that will surely make a signal contribution to contemporary thinking about violence and how it affects everyday life. With this argument, I aim to further prompt more in-depth studies on how certain objects define policing practices, and emphasise the merit of ethnographic research as a methodological approach to uncover such dimensions. Drawing from Star and Griesemer (1989), I see the firearm as a 'boundary object' that brings policing actors together, but simultaneously reaccentuates their differences and in this case, reaffirms and repositions the dominant role of the state police in the Kenyan policing landscape. Based on ethnographic fieldwork on policing in Nairobi, Kenya between 20, I analyse how this exchange (re)centralises the state police and the critical role of the 'arms' in this process. ![]() As private security officers are unarmed in Kenya by law, there is a direct exchange of 'arms for mobility', an emic term that refers to an exchange of firearms for 'mobility', i.e. These arrangements entail that police officers team up together with security officers in their company vehicles. This paper analyses two policing arrangements between the state police and several private security companies in Nairobi, Kenya. Firearms owners fashion an ethical self through a combination of the prescribed, normative politics of gun rights rhetoric and creatively innovate with these scripts through their embodied experiences of threat. Violence Against Women, 20(3):369–377) represents both a lived experience and ideological lens that informs ethical behaviour. From Gun Politics to Self-Defence Politics: A Feminist Critique of the Great Gun Debate. ![]() For white men and women, as well as transgender gun rights activists in San Diego, California, vulnerability forms a key part of the argument for expanding access to guns as defensive weapons. This rhetoric has its origin in counter-hegemonic movements like the Black Panther Party for Self-Defence, which argued that African-Americans need guns to resist state-sanctioned violence from the police. Arguments that position firearms as defensive tools have become increasingly common in debates about gun legislation over the last two decades. ![]() My approach advocates moving beyond recruitment and ideological interpolation by questioning the allure of combat through an ontological framework that includes combatants’ perspectives and narratives.Įthical ways of being form in response to bodily perceptions of vulnerability. I address the fine line between pleasure and fun in order to highlight the inner workings of violence during combat and to encourage a fresh bottom-up anthropological perspective in assessing the parameters of the persistence and resilience of volunteer combatants. I apply Walter Benjamin’s motion of pure means to explain how violence becomes self-referential and non-representational via combat-zone ethnography amongst Iraqi Shi’i militants who fought against ISIS in Iraq. ![]() In order to suggest a different mode of seeing violence, I explore the inner workings of violence through the pleasures of and fun among Shi’i volunteer combatants. The social sciences speak of violence through its meaning, performances, manifestations and representations however, the inner workings of violence are less explored.
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