Project Details
Projekt
The Life of Files Extended and Overlapping Logics
Applicant
Professor Dr. Klaus Schlichte
Subject Area
Political Science
Term
from 2011 to 2018
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 180384794
How do dealings with the police affect its routines? With this question for the phase II of the PP we investigated both bureaucratic routines (the life of files) and everyday life interaction of citizens (forums of interaction) with the Ugandan police force. Now, in the middle of the second phase, we can already state that the life of files is an arena of translation and of representation that allows a lot of insights into the construction of state order and its social effects. In the interactions of the police other social logics overlap with the formal-legal of police work. Research in phase III of the PP shall deepen the understanding of these conflictive overlappings and to extend our investigation of the life of files by asking how does order within and around the police emerge?. By enlarging the life of files with studies of the production and use of statistics and by analyzing conflictive episodes of citizen-police encounters we want to learn more about the production of order (understood as unquestioned patterns) and disorder (understood as unstable mutual expectations). In phase III we will draw on our established methods of field research, which we also want to reflect in a particular contribution on the ethnography of internationalized politics.
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