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Book review: Gregory Feldman, The Gray Zone: Sovereignty, Human Smuggling, and Undercover Police Investigation in Europe
Theoretical Criminology ( IF 2.936 ) Pub Date : 2019-10-11 , DOI: 10.1177/1362480619879246
William Garriott 1
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Readers expecting a conventional police ethnography may find themselves disoriented by Feldman’s The Gray Zone which is the story of an undercover police investigative team operating in an unnamed city in an unnamed maritime southern European country. The opening chapter, for instance, spends most of its time engaging with theories of sovereignty in anthropology and political philosophy, rather than presenting a more conventional overview of the literature on policing in the social sciences. But readers would do well to remain patient. Feldman’s approach offers a fresh take on the sociopolitical significance of police that avoids the familiar, predictable conceptual framings. He uses his ethnographic engagement to deepen our understanding of this particular investigative team and what it tells us about sovereignty, the state form, and human activity in our current moment.

中文翻译:

书评:格雷戈里·费尔德曼(Gregory Feldman),《灰色地带:主权,人口走私和欧洲秘密警察调查》

期待常规警察民族志的读者可能会发现自己被费尔德曼的《灰色地带》迷住了这是一个秘密警察调查小组在一个未具名的海上南部欧洲国家的一个未具名的城市中运作的故事。例如,第一章将大部分时间花在人类学和政治哲学的主权理论上,而不是对社会科学中的警务文献进行更为常规的概述。但是读者会做得很好,以保持耐心。费尔德曼(Feldman)的方法为警察的社会政治意义提供了新的视角,避免了熟悉的,可预测的概念框架。他利用人种志研究的方式加深了我们对这支特别侦查队的了解,并加深了我们对当前时刻的主权,国家形态和人类活动的了解。
更新日期:2019-10-11
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