1st Edition
Policing and Human Rights The Meaning of Violence and Justice in the Everyday Policing of Johannesburg
1.Introduction
2. Remembering the Police
3. From Geneva to Johannesburg: Human rights Training
4. ‘Don’t Push this Constitution down my throat...’; the use of violence in everyday policing
5. ‘Your Police – my police’: the informal privatisation of policing
6. ‘Omms gaan ry!’: on entanglement and human rights as violence
7. Conclusion: human rights in their ordinary state
Biography
Julia Hornberger is senior researcher in Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Zurich and a research fellow at the African Centre for Migration and Society, University of the Witwatersrand. She is also a cofounder of the Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism. Her research interests are justice, policing, the social life of law, violence and the international policing of counterfeit goods and health.
