wyszukanych pozycji: 6
Political Policing: The United States and Latin America
ISBN: 9780822321729 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Reconstructing eighty years of history, "Political Policing" examines the nature and consequences of U.S. police training in Brazil and other Latin American countries. With data from a wide range of primary sources, including previously classified U.S. and Brazilian government documents, Martha K. Huggins uncovers how U.S. strategies to gain political control through police assistance--in the name of hemispheric and national security--has spawned torture, murder, and death squads in Latin America.
After a historical review of policing in the United States and Europe over the past century,... Reconstructing eighty years of history, "Political Policing" examines the nature and consequences of U.S. police training in Brazil and other Latin Am...
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109,50 zł |
Violence Workers: Police Torturers and Murderers Reconstruct Brazilian Atrocities
ISBN: 9780520234475 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Of the twenty-three Brazilian policemen interviewed in depth for this landmark study, fourteen were direct perpetrators of torture and murder during the three decades that included the 1964-1985 military regime. These "violence workers" and the other group of "atrocity facilitators" who had not, or claimed they had not, participated directly in the violence, help answer questions that haunt today's world: Why and how are ordinary men transformed into state torturers and murderers? How do atrocity perpetrators explain and justify their violence? What is the impact of their murderous deeds--on...
Of the twenty-three Brazilian policemen interviewed in depth for this landmark study, fourteen were direct perpetrators of torture and murder during t...
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217,97 zł |
Women Fielding Danger: Negotiating Ethnographic Identities in Field Research
ISBN: 9780742541207 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In a compelling exploration of an oft-hidden aspect of qualitative field research, Women Fielding Danger shows how identity performances can facilitate or block field research outcomes. The book asks questions that are crucial for all women engaged in field research. Do researchers enter their field site with a totally neutral identity? Can a researcher's own identity be at odds with how interviewees see her? Could a researcher be of the "wrong" gender, sexuality, nationality, or religion for those being studied? Must some of a researcher's identities be subsumed in certain research settings?...
In a compelling exploration of an oft-hidden aspect of qualitative field research, Women Fielding Danger shows how identity performances can facilitat...
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285,56 zł |
Political Policing: The United States and Latin America
ISBN: 9780822321590 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. How the United States gained political control in other countries by advising and training foreign police, with an emphasis on Brazil.
How the United States gained political control in other countries by advising and training foreign police, with an emphasis on Brazil.
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433,01 zł |
Vigilantism and the State in Modern Latin America: Essays on Extralegal Violence
ISBN: 9780275934767 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. According to the Latin American political analysts and scholars who contributed to this volume, free elections during the 1980s largely served to disguise rather than diminish institutional repressiveness and the reality of economic, political, and social disintegration that is occurring in many Latin American countries. This book is the first work of research to deal with the violence--on the part of both states and citizens--that is the most visible expression of that breakdown. Describing the nature and causes of Latin American vigilantism, the authors explore its impact within the... According to the Latin American political analysts and scholars who contributed to this volume, free elections during the 1980s largely served to d... |
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384,41 zł |
Women Fielding Danger: Negotiating Ethnographic Identities in Field Research
ISBN: 9780742541191 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In a compelling exploration of an oft-hidden aspect of qualitative field research, Women Fielding Danger shows how identity performances can facilitate or block field research outcomes. The book asks questions that are crucial for all women engaged in field research. Do researchers enter their field site with a totally neutral identity? Can a researcher's own identity be at odds with how interviewees see her? Could a researcher be of the "wrong" gender, sexuality, nationality, or religion for those being studied? Must some of a researcher's identities be subsumed in certain research settings?...
In a compelling exploration of an oft-hidden aspect of qualitative field research, Women Fielding Danger shows how identity performances can facilitat...
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631,52 zł |