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Thinking the body as a basis, provocation and burden of life
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Thinking the body as a basis, provocation and burden of life

by Gert Melville, Carlos Ruta
August 2015
Beginner content levelBeginner
259 pages
8h 43m
English
De Gruyter Oldenbourg
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José Antonio Garriga Zucal

Use and Representations of the Body among Police Officers in the Province of Buenos Aires

Introduction

By means of an ethnographic study among officers of the Buenos Aires provincial police force, we will analyze the representations that our interlocutors make concerning their bodies and their contexts of action. There is among police officers in the province of Buenos Aires an ideal police officer, a model of the “true cop,” characterized by his courage, his bravery, and his absence of fear in the “fight against crime.” In this archetype, the body takes on a leading role, given that physical strength emerges as one of the required and distinctive features of police activity. This representation establishes a constant ...

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