{"product_id":"classify-exclude-police-laurent-fourchard-9781119582625","title":"Classify, Exclude, Police: Urban Lives in South Africa and Nigeria","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u0026gt;CLASSIFY, EXCLUDE, POLICE\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Laurent Fourchard's deep, first-hand knowledge of the history and contemporary politics of Nigeria and South Africa forms the basis of an insightful and compelling analysis of how states produce invidious distinctions among their people and at the same time how political linkages are forged between state and society, elites and subalterns, bureaucratic structures and personal relations.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrederick Cooper, Professor of History, New York University, USA \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Violence, control, police and political order are essential dimensions of metropolis. In this exceptional book, Laurent Fourchard compares decentralised exercises of authority in providing vivid analysis of exclusion of youth and migrants, policing and riots, politics of \"Big men\" and fine-grained blurring between bureaucracy and society. A masterpiece of urban politics.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePatrick Le Galès, Dean of Urban School, Sciences Po Paris, France \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'This book is a major contribution to rethinking urban politics from the experiences of African cities. Based on detailed historical analysis of South Africa and Nigeria, Fourchard recalibrates the actors, stakes and terms of urban politics around African-centred concerns.' \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJennifer Robinson, Professor of Geography, University College London, UK \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe cities of South Africa and Nigeria are reputed to be dangerous, teeming with slums, and dominated by the informal economy but we know little about how people are divided up, categorised and policed. Colonial governments assigned rights and punishments, banned categories considered problematic (delinquents, migrants, single women, street vendors) and give non-state organisations the power to police low-income neighbourhoods. Within this enduring legacy, a tangle of petty arrangements has developed to circumvent exclusion to public places and government offices. In this unpredictable urban reality which has eluded all planning individuals and social groups have changed areas of public action through exclusion, violence and negotiation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn combining historical and ethnographic methods, Classify, Exclude, Police explores the effects and limits of public action, and questions the possibility of comparison between cities often perceived as incommensurable. Focusing on state formation, urbanization, and daily lives, Laurent Fourchard addresses debates and controversies in comparative urban studies, history, political science, and urban anthropology. The book provides a systematic, comparative approach to the practices, processes, arrangements used to create boundaries, direct violence, and produce social, racial, gender, and generational differences.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Laurent Fourchard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1119582628\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781119582625\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wiley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/19\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.26lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Laurent Fourchard","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48013888782591,"sku":"9781119582625","price":94.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bb1a02d9-ccd7-4a3d-90f4-b3ce409a897b.jpg?v=1767745395","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/classify-exclude-police-laurent-fourchard-9781119582625","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}