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Slaps in the face, kicks, beatings, and other forms of run-of-the-mill violence were a quotidian part of life in German Southwest Africa at the beginning of the twentieth century. Unearthing this culture of normalized violence in a settler colony, __Violence as Usual__ uncovers the workings of a powerful state that was built in an improvised fashion by low-level state representatives. Marie A. Muschalek's fascinating portrayal of the daily deeds of African and German men enrolled in the colonial police force called the __Landespolizei__ is a historical anthropology of police practice and the normalization of imperial power. Replete with anecdotes of everyday experiences both of the policemen and of colonized people and settlers, __Violence as Usual__ re-examines fundamental questions about the relationship between power and violence. Muschalek gives us a new perspective on violence beyond the solely destructive and the instrumental. She overcomes, too, the notion that modern states operate exclusively according to modes of rationalized functionality. __Violence as Usual__ offers an unusual assessment of the history of rule in settler colonialism and an alternative to dominant narra

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Author

Marie A Muschalek; ProQuest (Firm)

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781501742873

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Sociology, Historical Fiction