Cultivating suspicion : an ethnography.

At the heart of 21st century discourses are questions of whose lives may matter more than others. While the debates themselves are not new, the #hashtags they are linked to and the media through which concerns around moralities of living together are expressed allow for debates to reach large number...

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Main Author: Junck, Leah Davina
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Mankon, Bamenda : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, 2019
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505 0 |a Introduction -- Contextualising crime -- Inserting the self in the field : How to 'do' research on vulnerability and ethnographic methods as ethics -- The everyday texture and architecture of fear in the suburb : patrollers and their strategies and accessories of security -- The Phantom Suspect : Cultivating and embodying suspicion in Observatory -- Dancing with the devil : patrolling as performance -- 'Couch patrolling' and the virtual embodiment of the Observatory Neighbourhood Watch -- Conclusions : Masking vulnerability and other comforts of being a patroller. 
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